Selex ES Falco

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The Falco (Italian for 'hawk') is a family of tactical unmanned aerial vehicles designed and produced by Selex ES (now Leonardo formerly Leonardo-Finmeccanica and Finmeccanica, originally by Galileo Avionica of Italy). The Falco family UAVs are designed to be a medium-altitude, medium-endurance intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) capable platform equipped with range of payloads, including several types of high-resolution sensors. A larger variant, the Falco EVO, is capable of carrying larger payloads is also available. Neither system is designed to carry weapons, The launch customer, Pakistan, reportedly wanted the Falco armed, a request that Italy rejected. Astore is an armed version developed from the Falco EVO equipped with two Turkish made Roketsan Cirit 70 mm laser-guided missiles along with the ISTAR capability. As of 2026, the Bangladesh Air Force is the only confirmed user of the armed Falco family UAVs.

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