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THE SYSTEM FILES

Find the system. Understand its role.

Browse air, land, sea surface and underwater systems by mission, country, manufacturer and programme status.

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Domains describe where the vehicle operates. Remote control and autonomous operation are identified separately in each profile. Adjacent support systems →

Aircraft, ground vehicles, surface vessels, underwater vehicles, named variants and adjacent support systems. Specifications are attributed to their sources; undisclosed values stay explicit. Origin is separate from operator country. This is a growing public-source catalogue, including development projects, rather than a census of every field-built configuration.

11 entries

Air · Loitering munitionUnited Arab Emirates

HUNTER 2S

Small HUNTER aircraft with a 2026 supplier baseline and a family-level UAE procurement commitment.

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Air · Loitering munitionUnited Arab Emirates

HUNTER 5 / HUNTER 10

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

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Air · Concept aircraftUnited Arab Emirates

Concept / announced

JENIAH

Emirati uncrewed combat-aircraft programme with a published design baseline; exhibition and product material do not establish operational acceptance.

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Air · Multirole aircraftUnited States / United Arab Emirates

OMEN

Joint American–Emirati tail-sitter aircraft programme with a UAE order and a future production timetable.

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Air · Loitering munitionUnited Arab Emirates

Concept / announced

QX-1 / QX-2 / QX-3 / QX-4

Original QX loitering-munition family, recorded with distinct rotary-wing and fixed-wing branches.

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Air · Loitering munitionUnited Arab Emirates

SHADOW 25

Jet-powered SHADOW configuration included in a documented UAE Armed Forces procurement announcement.

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Air · Loitering munitionUnited Arab Emirates

SHADOW 50

Longer-endurance SHADOW configuration whose versioned catalogue describes piston propulsion, separate from the jet-powered SHADOW 25.

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Air · Multirole aircraftPoland / United Arab Emirates

Concept / announced

SINYAR LAR1

Polish–Emirati programme to develop an uncrewed aircraft from the Flaris jet lineage.

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Air · Reconnaissance aircraftPoland / United Arab Emirates

Concept / announced

SINYAR LAR3P

Later SINYAR reconnaissance configuration publicly presented by Flaris at IDEX 2025.

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Air · Drone / systemUnited Arab Emirates

GARMOOSHA

Uncrewed helicopter with a substantial sensor payload allowance and a UAE Ministry of Defence supply contract.

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Air · Drone / systemUnited Arab Emirates

REACH-S

Emirati medium-altitude fixed-wing aircraft ordered by the UAE for surveillance and other military missions.

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