HUNTER 2S
Small HUNTER aircraft with a 2026 supplier baseline and a family-level UAE procurement commitment.
- Country / region
- United Arab Emirates
- Programme status
- Order / production commitment
- Sources reviewed
- 21 Sept 2026
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Loitering munition
- Developer / manufacturer
- HALCON / EDGE
- Origin / production countries
- United Arab Emirates
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- HUNTER 2S, March 2026 published baseline
- Operators / programme customers
- UAE Armed Forces — family order announced
Evidence & current status
Order established at family level; no per-type delivered fleet is inferred.
Role & capabilities
- Loitering munition programme
Specifications in context
- Airframe
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Launch / recovery
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Propulsion
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Dimensions
- 2.2 m span; 1.3 m length
March 2026 table; older material differs.
Source - Mass
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Endurance
- 45 minutes
Supplier maximum.
Source - Range
- 50 km communications reach
Datalink, not mission range.
Source - Speed
- 33 m/s
March 2026 catalogue.
Source - Altitude
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Payload
- 2 kg
Published capacity only.
Source - Sensors
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Communications / navigation
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source