AR5
AR5 is TEKEVER medium-altitude fixed-wing UAS for maritime surveillance, border security and long-endurance ISR missions.
Facts
- Company: TEKEVER
- Product type: UAV
- Status: Commercial
- Website: https://www.tekever.com/ar5/
Market context
TEKEVER AR5 is a medium-endurance fixed-wing UAS for wide-area maritime, border and land surveillance missions with longer endurance than the AR3.
- Target environment: Defence operational environments including wide-area maritime, border and land surveillance areas.
- Workflow context: Long-endurance surveillance, wide-area maritime monitoring, border patrol and reconnaissance missions.
- Customer context: Defence customers needing longer-endurance fixed-wing UAS for persistent surveillance.
- Deployment model: Deployed defence product with international procurement and field use.
- Commercial maturity: Active long-endurance UAS platform with multi-country defence adoption.
- Adoption constraints: Defence procurement cycles and integration with existing surveillance command structures.
- Market position: Extends TEKEVER beyond smaller tactical drones into longer-endurance operations with heavier payload potential.
- Adjacent products: AR3 EVO, long-endurance surveillance UAS
Workflow
Long-endurance surveillance, wide-area maritime monitoring, border patrol and reconnaissance missions.
Capability
Remote operation
Deployment environment
Defence operational environments including wide-area maritime, border and land surveillance areas.
Specifications
- Form Type: Medium-altitude, medium-endurance fixed-wing UAS
- Dimensions: 7.3 x 4.0 m
- Length: 7.3 m
- Wingspan Ft: 4 m
- Communication Range: Unlimited (SATCOM)
- Launch Recovery: Runway / unprepared airstrip 200-300 m
- Mtow: 180 kg
- Endurance Hours: 20 h
- Payload Capacity Kg: 50 kg
- Cruising Speed Mps: 100 km/h / 27.8 m/s m/s
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
- 2025-05-20 - Production Milestone - TEKEVER launches £400M UK OVERMATCH programme after crossing £1B valuation - TEKEVER said existing investors backed a new funding round valuing the company above £1B. The company anno…
Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
- Programme Investment Gbp - £400 million UK OVERMATCH programme - 2025-05-20 - UAS production expansion - TEKEVER announced a five-year £400 million UK OVERMATCH programme including expanded UK production of AR3 and AR5…
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