Role & capabilities
- Tactical reconnaissance
- Visual observation
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Arab Organization for Industrialization / Military Technical College
- Origin / production countries
- Egypt
- Other names
- Nut
- Variants / configurations
- Not distinguished in reviewed sources
- Operators / programme customers
- Not identified in reviewed sources
Evidence & current status
Reviewed 21 September 2026. Supplier-reported status denotes a publicly presented, officially described programme; operational acceptance was not verified. The 50/65 kg payload conflict is unresolved, and numerical data should be treated as published claims.
NUT is an Egyptian reconnaissance aircraft disclosed at EDEX on 29 November 2021. Ahram attributes manufacture to AOI with the Military Technical College. The State Information Service subsequently described its tactical observation role and television/digital camera equipment in a November 2023 overview of Egyptian military production.
The available official descriptions do not form a fully consistent specification. The 2021 announcement gave a 65 kg carrying capacity, whereas the 2023 overview lists 50 kg of payload. This profile retains the later figure with that disagreement stated explicitly. Different loads, development configurations or editorial errors could explain the difference, but the sources do not resolve it. Maximum payload and endurance must therefore not be treated as a demonstrated combined flight condition.
Public unveiling and published capabilities establish a named domestic programme. They do not independently demonstrate serial deliveries, an accepted operational fleet or the detailed provenance of every component. Dimensions, propulsion, communications architecture and variant-specific acceptance remain open research fields. Claims of complete domestic manufacture are government assertions, not a supply-chain audit.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Launch / recovery | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Propulsion | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Dimensions | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Mass | 340 kg maximum weight | Government's 2023 wording; not independently validated as a certified take-off mass. Source ↗ |
| Endurance | 10 hours | Government's 2023 published figure; flight conditions unspecified. Source ↗ |
| Range | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Speed | 180 km/h maximum; 120–140 km/h level-flight speed | Government's 2023 figures. Source ↗ |
| Altitude | 5,000 m maximum | Government's 2023 description; altitude reference not stated. Source ↗ |
| Payload | 50 kg; earlier official announcement said 65 kg | 2023 baseline; conflicting 2021 capacity claim is retained in the body and earlier source. Source ↗ |
| Sensors | Television / digital camera | Government's 2023 description; model and sensor performance unspecified. Source ↗ |
| Communications / navigation | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
Documented milestones
Public EDEX disclosure
The next day's State Information Service announcement dates the public presentation to 29 November.
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Publication history
- — Added in the September 2026 global coverage review, with sources, configuration limits and explicit data gaps.
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Follow the evidence
Source types identify who makes the claim. Programme milestones and supplier statements should be read in context.
- Egypt State Information Service — NUT disclosure, 30 November 2021 (opens in a new tab)Government
- Egypt State Information Service — military production overview, 18 November 2023 (opens in a new tab)Government
- Ahram — AOI and Military Technical College attribution, 5 December 2021 (opens in a new tab)Original reporting