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Choose up to three systems. Specifications retain their source and configuration; missing information is left undisclosed.

HUNTER 5 / HUNTER 10

Two HUNTER configurations with a shared procurement announcement and clearly separated revision history.

Country / region
United Arab Emirates
Programme status
Order / production commitment
Sources reviewed
21 Sept 2026
Order / production commitmentOrder / production commitment
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 5 — later gasoline configuration; HUNTER 10; Earlier electric HUNTER 5 — distinct 2022 baseline
Operators / programme customers
UAE Armed Forces — combined family order

Evidence & current status

2022 and 2024 specifications describe materially different baselines; the catalogue does not prove customer acceptance of every revision.

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
Gasoline engine in the May 2024 family sheet

Earlier electric HUNTER 5 is a different published baseline.

Source
Dimensions
Up to 3.6 m span; up to 2.85 m length

Combined family maxima.

Source
Mass
Up to 50 kg maximum take-off mass

Combined family maximum, not necessarily both variants.

Source
Endurance
150 minutes

Later supplier family sheet.

Source
Range
100 km communications reach

Not ferry distance.

Source
Speed
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.

Source
Altitude
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.

Source
Payload
HUNTER 5: 5 kg; HUNTER 10: 10 kg

Variant distinction.

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