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 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.
HUNTER 5 and HUNTER 10 are grouped here because the reviewed supplier sheet presents them together, with payload capacity distinguishing the named configurations. This is one family profile, not a claim that the two aircraft have identical dimensions or loading. The joint 2023 UAE order also names HUNTER 2S, which has its own record.
The May 2024 sheet describes gasoline propulsion and a 150-minute endurance baseline. The earlier 2022 HUNTER 5 sheet instead describes a lighter electric configuration with a shorter endurance. These publications cannot be combined into a single timeless specification.
The table below uses the later combined sheet, marking family maxima as such. A customer’s exact configuration, delivery total and acceptance date remain separate questions. When a future release identifies one variant, its facts should be attached to that variant rather than automatically inherited by the other.
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 | 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 ↗ |
Publication history
- — Added in the September 2026 global coverage review, with sources, configuration limits and explicit data gaps.
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Follow the evidence
Source types identify who makes the claim. Programme milestones and supplier statements should be read in context.