Defense News: IAI Signs Agreements Valued at $145M to Deliver Long-Range Loitering Munitions

 

IAI Signs Agreements Valued at $145M to Deliver Long-Range Loitering Munitions

"Loitering munitions have proven critical to achieving operational success on the battlefield worldwide,” said IAI President, Boaz Levy

By Israel Defense 26/11/23

https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/60402

                                        The Harop drone in flight :Photo: IAI

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) signed two separate agreements with two countries to deliver long-range loitering munitions. The contracts’ combined value is $145M. These two significant orders follow a previous contract signed earlier this year, that has also declared the purchase of IAI's long-range loitering munitions. This series of orders represents the growing global demand for IAI's long-range loitering munition family and demonstrates IAI's unique capability in this market segment.

IAI's President and CEO Boaz Levy: "Loitering munitions have proven critical to achieving operational success on the battlefield worldwide. The flexibility in strikes that can be achieved with a loitering munition is a major advantage in combat and the type of precision reached is of strategic and national importance. The latest orders emphasize the trust in IAI’s loitering munitions family in bringing the required advantages to each country respectively.”

IAI’s family of long-range loitering munitions includes the Harpy NG, Harop, and Mini Harpy.

                                 A Harop drone launch: Photo: IAI

In the 1980s, IAI invented the loitering munitions weapons class when it introduced the HARPY. Equipped with an Anti-Radiation (AR) seeker, the Harpy was designed for the Autonomous Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (SEAD) missions.  Today, IAI offers the Next Generation, the HARPY NG – a more advanced loitering munition used against a diverse range of radiating targets. 

The HAROP, a derivative of the Harpy, is a combat-proven loitering munition with naval and land versions. The Harop is used against a variety of combat scenarios including against terror threats. Using a day and night Electro-Optical seeker, the HAROP scans, detects, identifies, and attacks stationary and moving targets with exceptional precision and at any angle.

The MINI HARPY  is the only loitering munition in the world to carry a triple seeker – Electrooptical day, night, and AR. The combined seeker allows detection and attack in severe weather conditions and makes it very difficult for the target to avoid detection and destruction.. The Mini Harpy has electrical propulsion and is equipped with an anti-tank warhead. Like the other long-range LMs, Mini Harpy is canister-launched

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