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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.

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Launch / recovery
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

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

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Propulsion
Gasoline engine in the May 2024 family sheet

Earlier electric HUNTER 5 is a different published baseline.

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

Combined family maxima.

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Mass
Up to 50 kg maximum take-off mass

Combined family maximum, not necessarily both variants.

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Endurance
150 minutes

Later supplier family sheet.

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Range
100 km communications reach

Not ferry distance.

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Speed
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

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

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Altitude
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

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

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

Variant distinction.

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Sensors
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

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

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Communications / navigation
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

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

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