
The Jeer UAV displayed at the Edge stand at IDEX 2025. (Edge Group)
Edge will deliver its Jeer unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Armed Forces instead of the Reach-S, the group's chairman told Janes during the International Defence Exhibition & Conference (IDEX) 2025 held in Abu Dhabi from 17 to 21 February.
“Jeer is the same category [as the Reach-S], has the same payload, [and] the same envelope, but it will sell for USD499,000. Nothing comes close in the market at that price point with that spec,” Faisal al-Bannai said. “We are killing the Reach-S, along with every other product in the market.”
Edge announced during the Dubai Airshow in November 2023 that the UAE Ministry of Defence (MoD) had placed an order for 100 Reach-Ss, a medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) UAV unveiled at the show two years earlier.
While the value of the Reach-S contract was not announced at the time, Bannai told Janes during IDEX 2023 that the basic aircraft would be sold for USD1.1 million, undercutting rival models that sell for USD3.5–5 million.
At IDEX 2025, Bannai said Edge will now deliver the Jeer to the MoD instead of the Reach-S “at a fraction of the price” and to the same timeline.
“We went to the client and said, ‘we have a change of plan, we are not going to deliver this to you; here is the product we will deliver to you; it is 10% of the price of the market product, I will start delivering to you at the end of the year',” he said. “We had clients about to place orders for the Reach-S and we said we have a better product for you.”
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