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Italmas

A Russian propeller-driven one-way attack drone from the ZALA AERO group, also designated Izdeliye-54 and first shown at Army-2023. The manufacturer claims a range above 200 km; Ukraine’s HUR catalogue lists a declared 200 km flight range and catapult launch. Claims of its first combat use in October 2023 were contested; Ukrainian reports name it in later attacks, without independent per-type counts.[1][2]

Design origin
Russia[1]
Research edition
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Public-source profile. Performance claims are attributed; type links do not verify an incident identification.

also known as Izdeliye-54, Izdeliye 54, Изделие-54, Итальмас, Італмас

Public-source profile. Performance claims are attributed; type links do not verify an incident identification.

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Published flight range

200 km[2]Izdeliye-54 (Italmas) · HUR declared characteristics · 2026
Official report; not an independent test> 200 km[1]Italmas · ZALA AERO 2023 statement (“exceeding 200 kilometres”) · 2023
Published lower limit

Body length

Unknown in reviewed sources

Wingspan

Unknown in reviewed sources

Same-class research profiles · published range, km · open bounds remain open

One scale. Different machines.

No scaled drawing is provided for this configuration. See the sourced dimensions and their limitations.

Human height is an illustrative 1.8 m; bus length an illustrative 12 m. Car length uses the cited MINI specification. Vehicle heights and drone side contours are schematic. Top views preserve published length and span; an absent dimension is never guessed.

One car length here is 3.821 m: MINI Cooper 3 door, March 2020 specification.

In our archive

Not yet named as a model in this archive — sources usually say only “drone” or name the family.

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Where this type appears

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Family & configurations

Italmas (Izdeliye-54)

Form, sound & identification limits

  • ZALA AERO, 30 October 2023, says the Italmas has an internal combustion engine “that uses fuel from tanks located in the wings of the drone”; its chief designer claimed a range exceeding 200 kilometres and a larger warhead. These are manufacturer statements, not independent measurements.[1]
  • HUR’s War & Sanctions catalogue (updated 4 May 2026) lists under “Declared characteristics” a 200 km flight range, pneumatic-catapult take-off and an internal combustion engine, and links the type to CST LLC, AEROSCAN LLC and ZALA AERO JSC, the same companies it lists for the Lancet series. Declared characteristics are not test data.[2]
  • FDD’s Long War Journal, 27 October 2023, found “little solid evidence” that the drone reported over Ukraine on 22–23 October 2023 was the Italmas; it judged a rudimentary decoy-type aircraft more likely. Identifications from that week remain contested and are not used here as a first-use date.[3]
  • In July 2025 the radio-technology specialist Serhii Beskrestnov (known as Flash), quoted by Mezha, said the Italmas was being used repeatedly against Sumy and is often confused with the KUB: “This UAV has a propeller in front.” This is one specialist’s field observation, not an official identification of individual strikes.[4]
  • Ukraine’s Air Force lists it among the types in national waves, for example on 14 October 2026: “Banderol/Dan-T, Gerbera, Italmas, and Parodiya-type decoy drones”. Such lists give no per-type count and no local identification; the name in a total does not establish that a given impact was an Italmas.[5]

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What does it cost?

Published USD figures use different price bases and years. Airframes, export packages and support are not equivalent. These are not current offers or verified production costs.

Unknown in reviewed sources

Countermeasures in public analysis

No type-specific, independently supported summary is included in this edition.

Recent developments

Source-bound developments that name this this drone type. They describe announcements and reports, not incidents.

Strategy and doctrineClaimed

Ukraine reports a record 1,428 Russian drones in a single day

Ukraine's Air Force said Russia used 1,428 drones against Ukraine in one day in May 2026, including jet-powered Shahed versions, Gerbera and Italmas drones. Counting windows and the inclusion of decoys differ between sources.

Who says so: Ukraine's Air Force

Gerbera7 dossiers in the archive name this typeItalmas (Izdeliye-54)
Sources · 1
  • “This brought the total number of drones used by the invaders in a single day to 1,428.”
    militarnyi.com ↗Militarnyi · · quote checked

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Source notebook

  1. ZALA AERO · ZALA AERO has developed the Italmas kamikaze drone

    30 Oct 2023 · Source consulted: 02 Nov 2026 · Manufacturer claim

  2. Defence Intelligence of Ukraine · Izdeliye-54 (Italmas): declared characteristics and involved enterprises

    Publication date not stated · Source consulted: 02 Nov 2026 · Official report; not an independent test

  3. FDD’s Long War Journal · No Solid Evidence Russia Debuted ‘Italmas’ Drone

    27 Oct 2023 · Source consulted: 02 Nov 2026 · Approximate / analyst compilation

  4. Mezha (Oboronka) · Flash: Russians set up a testing ground for the Italmas drone in Sumy

    29 Jul 2025 · Source consulted: 02 Nov 2026 · Firsthand reporting

  5. Interfax-Ukraine · Russia launches 39 missiles, 128 UAVs at Ukraine; 4 missiles, 115 drones downed or suppressed – Air Force

    14 Oct 2026 · Source consulted: 02 Nov 2026 · Firsthand reporting

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DroneLedger. Italmas (Izdeliye-54). Research edition 2026-11-02. https://droneincidents.com/drones/italmas/

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