Role & capabilities
- Multirole aircraft
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Multirole aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Milkor
- Origin / production countries
- South Africa
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- See the named configuration and evidence notes
- Operators / programme customers
- Not confirmed in the reviewed public sources
Evidence & current status
The 2025 catalogue differs from an older manufacturer web baseline. Values here use the catalogue; exact customer configurations and current operator fleets remain unconfirmed.
Milkor 380 is a large fixed-wing uncrewed aircraft developed by South Africa’s Milkor. The programme is marketed for persistent reconnaissance and additional military missions, with optical, radar and other payload options. Its associated ground segment includes fixed and mobile control-station arrangements. This is a distinct aircraft programme, not an indication that the number in its name is its current take-off mass.
The reviewed manufacturer material contains different specification baselines. A company web page lists a 1,300-kilogram maximum take-off mass and thirty-five hours of endurance. The 2025 catalogue instead lists 1,500 kilograms and thirty hours, alongside a 220-kilogram payload. This profile uses the dated catalogue and makes the discrepancy visible rather than selecting the best number from each version.
The catalogue also separates a long advertised flight range from a shorter line-of-sight communications radius. Satellite communications are offered, but an advertised option does not prove installation on every aircraft. Public product marketing establishes the programme; the reviewed documents do not justify a precise present-day military fleet count or an assumption that all advertised payloads are in service.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Fixed-wing MALE aircraft | Published figure for the cited configuration; not independently verified flight performance. Source ↗ |
| Launch / recovery | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source ↗ |
| Propulsion | Fuel engine; catalogue lists aviation or motor gasoline | Published figure for the cited configuration; not independently verified flight performance. Source ↗ |
| Dimensions | Length 9 m; wingspan 18.6 m | Published figure for the cited configuration; not independently verified flight performance. Source ↗ |
| Mass | Maximum take-off weight 1,500 kg | Published figure for the cited configuration; not independently verified flight performance. Source ↗ |
| Endurance | Maximum 30 hours | Published figure for the cited configuration; not independently verified flight performance. Source ↗ |
| Range | 4,000+ km maximum; 250 km line-of-sight communications radius | Published figure for the cited configuration; not independently verified flight performance. Source ↗ |
| Speed | 250 km/h maximum; 110–150 km/h operational | Published figure for the cited configuration; not independently verified flight performance. Source ↗ |
| Altitude | Maximum operational altitude 30,000 ft | Published figure for the cited configuration; not independently verified flight performance. Source ↗ |
| Payload | Maximum 220 kg | Published figure for the cited configuration; not independently verified flight performance. Source ↗ |
| Sensors | EO/IR and radar options | Published figure for the cited configuration; not independently verified flight performance. Source ↗ |
| Communications / navigation | Line-of-sight link; SATCOM capable | Published figure for the cited configuration; not independently verified flight performance. Source ↗ |
Publication history
- — Added a sourced global catalogue profile with configuration-specific data and explicit evidence limits.
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