The Pakistani military is fielding a new combat drone into active service, the POF Ababeel MR-10 Machine Gun-armed sUAS (small Unmanned Aerial System).
The system, here seen being tested in the field at an area near the Pakistan-Afghanistan International Border located in a district in the Pakistan Army XI Corps’ AOR, is a quadcopter drone capable of hunting down or locating targets in day or night and all terrains, and then also executing the kinetic fire engagement in order to eliminate the target(s), achieved via a recoil-stabilised, fully-gimballed Machine Gun that is aimed with EO/IR and laser rangefinder.
The POF Ababeel MR-10 will carry a Machine Gun, an electro-optical mutli-spectrum sensor suite and an ammunition box with stores of 150-250 rounds and with this payload be able to provide an OEM-specified endurance time of 45 minutes. The drone has an OEM-specified maximum altitude of 3,000 meters or approximately 10,000 feet.