AR3 EVO
AR3 EVO is TEKEVER long-endurance fixed-wing unmanned aircraft for maritime surveillance.
Facts
- Company: TEKEVER
- Product type: UAV
- Status: Commercial
- Website: https://www.tekever.com/ar3-evo/
Market context
TEKEVER AR3 EVO is a modular tactical UAS for defence and security ISR missions across maritime, land and contested environments.
- Target environment: Defence operational environments including maritime patrol, border surveillance and land reconnaissance.
- Workflow context: Tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance with modular payloads for maritime, border and land operations.
- Customer context: Defence customers and security agencies needing modular tactical ISR UAV capability.
- Deployment model: Deployed defence product with active procurement and field use.
- Commercial maturity: Active defence UAS platform with international deployment and multi-role capability.
- Adoption constraints: Defence procurement cycles and mission-specific payload integration requirements.
- Market position: A modular tactical UAS for ISR where endurance and operational flexibility define mission value.
- Adjacent products: AR5, tactical ISR UAVs
Workflow
Tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance with modular payloads for maritime, border and land operations.
Capability
Remote operation
Deployment environment
Defence operational environments including maritime patrol, border surveillance and land reconnaissance.
Specifications
- Task Scope: Tactical ISR, maritime surveillance, communications relay
- Payload Options: SIGINT integration, electronic warfare payload support
- Operational Environment: Shipborne and confined-space operations
- Comms Range Km: 230
- Cruise Speed Knots: 46
- Dimensions: {"length_m": 1.96, "wingspan_m": 4.2}
- Endurance Fixed Wing: up to 22 h
- Endurance Vtol: up to 14 h
- Launch Recovery: catapult; vtol; parachute
- Mtow Kg: 25
- Mtow Vtol Kg: 30
- Payload Capacity Kg: 6
Tags
- Peer Group: Tactical ISR UAV
- Workflow: Drone ISR
- Capability: Remote operation
- Deployment Environment: Defence operational environment
- Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
- Commercial Stage: Deployed platform
- Market Signal: Defence procurement signal
Timeline / Research
- 2026-03-26 - Capability - TEKEVER integrates Quadsat SpectraLoc EW payload on AR3 EVO - TEKEVER and Quadsat completed flight integration tests of the SpectraLoc payload aboard the AR3 EVO tactical UAS. The integration e…
- 2025-09-10 - Product Launch - TEKEVER unveils battle-proven shipborne-capable AR3 EVO system - TEKEVER announced an AR3 EVO configuration positioned for shipborne operations, emphasizing deployment from vessels and conf…
Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
- Named Wildfire Detection Operation - Alberta wildfire detection operations - 2026-06-18 - Phoenix Heli-Flight / Alberta wildfire program - wildfire detection - TEKEVER AR3 UAS were selected for Alberta wildfire-detectio…
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