Role & capabilities
- Compact aerial reconnaissance
- Security-market offering
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Kalashnikov Concern
- Origin / production countries
- Russia
- Other names
- Голиаф; Goliaf
- Variants / configurations
- Goliath-RU — reconnaissance exhibition designation
- Operators / programme customers
- Not identified in reviewed sources
Evidence & current status
Named current offering is established. Publicly reviewed supplier releases do not establish military delivery, fleet size or a version-specific performance table.
Goliath is a compact copter family marketed by Kalashnikov and Rosoboronexport. It appears in official supplier accounts of security and defence exhibitions, with Goliath-RU explicitly identified as a reconnaissance copter in September 2026. An earlier 2025 export presentation also calls the baseline Goliath a quadcopter. These references establish a named product family and its current marketing presence.
The public naming is less consistent than a dated model catalogue. Baseline Goliath, Goliath-R and Goliath-RU should not automatically share mass, endurance or sensor values, while reports of a 2.0 generation need their own original configuration evidence. The reviewed official releases do not supply such a table, so numerical claims from aggregated coverage are not imported here.
The manufacturer and exporter are primary sources for what they offer, but an exhibition entry does not establish a military procurement or a particular operator's acceptance. General statements about combat use across a portfolio cannot identify which aircraft were supplied. Current delivery contracts, configuration sheets and a named operator record would materially strengthen this profile without merging civil security products and military variants.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Quadcopter | Baseline Goliath description; later suffix versions require separate configuration evidence. 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 | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Endurance | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Range | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Speed | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Altitude | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Payload | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Sensors | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. 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
Goliath-RU exhibition announced
Rostec names the reconnaissance copter in Kalashnikov's EEF display.
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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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