The Mwari, which is manufactured near Pretoria, South Africa, has a flight ceiling of 31,000 feet, can travel up to 250 knots (288 mph) and and has a range of 550 nautical miles.

South Africa-based Paramount Aerospace Industries announced on 21 September that it has sealed deals with multiple unnamed customers for its Mwari turboprop ISR and light attack aircraft. A total of ...

Pretoria-based aerospace and defence equipment manufacturer Paramount Aerospace Industries is set to deliver its first Mwari multi-role aircraft to an overseas air force on September 23, while ...

Development of the Mwari began in 2010. Paramount markets it as a relatively inexpensive alternative to pricy, high-maintenance military aircraft for surveillance, maritime patrol and counter ...

Defence group Paramount will integrate weapons onto its Mwari light surveillance platform by early next year, as it steps up deliveries of the two-crew, single-pusher turboprop to initial ...

Paramount designs specialised solutions for critical missions. The Mwari aircraft is a reflection of this approach. At the IDEX exhibition in Abu Dhabi, Mike Levy, CEO of Paramount Aerospace ...

Paramount has been producing the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-66B-pusher-powered, high-winged, tandem-seat Mwari – originally branded the AHRLAC – since 2021 in a new factory in at Wonderboom ...

Paramount's stated goal is to make Mwari the cheapest of its kind and initial estimates put the price tag at less than $20 million for an airplane ready to go.

The Paramount Group has produced and sold the first military aircraft made in South Africa since the 1980s when state-owned arms maker Denel SOC Ltd. unveiled the Rooivalk, or red falcon, attack ...

LONDON—Paramount is seeking additional production capacity for its Mwari multimission aircraft as the company eyes a growing, potentially multibillion-dollar market for such platforms. The ...

PRETORIA (Reuters) – Private South African defence firm Paramount Aerospace Industries has received orders for nine of its Mwari aircraft – the first military aircraft to be designed and built ...

Development of the Mwari began in 2010. Paramount markets it as a relatively inexpensive alternative to pricy, high-maintenance military aircraft for surveillance, maritime patrol and counter ...