Role & capabilities
- Loitering munition programme
- 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.
HUNTER 2S is the smaller electric member of the HALCON/EDGE HUNTER portfolio. A March 2026 catalogue provides the configuration used in this record. The 2023 UAE Armed Forces contract covers HUNTER 2S, HUNTER 5 and HUNTER 10, without allocating publicly confirmed delivered quantities between them.
Catalogue revisions matter. Older online material gives different length and speed figures; mixing them with the current table would create an undocumented configuration. This profile therefore labels the current publication and retains missing fields as unknown.
The supplier’s description of coordinated autonomy is a product claim rather than an independently assessed account of field performance. Similarly, communications reach and maximum endurance are different quantities. A future customer acceptance statement should identify the version and delivery scope before the programme’s status is advanced.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| 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 ↗ |
Publication history
- — Added in the September 2026 global coverage review, with sources, configuration limits and explicit data gaps.
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Source types identify who makes the claim. Programme milestones and supplier statements should be read in context.