Airbus SIRTAP

The Airbus SIRTAP, marketed by Airbus as the U850 Sirtap, is a Spanish uncrewed tactical aircraft system that is still in development. The name is an acronym of the Spanish phrase Sistema Remotamente Tripulado de Altas Prestaciones, a high-performance remotely piloted system. Airbus began the work for the Spanish government in 2015 as a successor to its Atlante drone, at first under the name Atlante 2 MALE. It is intended to replace the Israeli-built Searcher drones of the Spanish army and to complement the air force MQ-9 aircraft. Spain signed a purchase contract with Airbus in November 2023 for nine systems, each made of three aircraft and a ground station, and Colombia has planned to buy six systems. The aircraft is 7.3 metres long with a 12 metre wingspan and a maximum take-off weight of 750 kilograms, and its wings and rotor can be removed so that two of them fit in the hold of a C-295.