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 represent the growing global demand for IAI’s long range loitering munition family and demonstrates IAI’s unique capability in this market segment. IAI’s family of long range loitering munitions includes the Harpy NG, Harop, and Mini Harpy. 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.
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.
The HAROP, a derivative of the Harpy, is a combat proven loitering munition with a naval and land versions. The Harop is used against a veriaty of combat scenarios including against terror threats. Using a day and night Electro Optical seeker, the HAROP scans, detectes, 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 yo avoid detection and distruction.. 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
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is Israel’s major aerospace and aviation manufacturer, producing aerial and astronautic systems for both military and civilian usage. It has 15,000 employees as of 2018. IAI is state-owned by the government of Israel. IAI is proud to pave the way in air defence, precision strikes, missiles, space, radars, UAVs, civil aviation, and cyber defence. IAI’s land, air, naval, and space systems are currently proving critical to security forces during Israel’s Iron Swords War, and other defense organizations around the world. IAI’s main focus is engineering, aviation and high-tech electronics, though it also manufactures military systems for ground and naval forces. Many of these products are centered on the core needs of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Other offerings are marketed to numerous foreign militaries.
