IAI Harop

The IAI Harop, also called the Harpy 2, is a loitering munition developed by the MBT division of Israel Aerospace Industries, a bigger and improved version of the company's Harpy anti-radiation drone. It is part unmanned aircraft and part missile: the whole aircraft becomes the weapon once it finds a target, and an electro-optical sensor lets the operator select targets during the loiter period for suppression of enemy air defences missions. Launched from transportable launchers and flown from a mission control shelter with a man in the loop, it carries a 15 kilogram warhead, can loiter and search for up to six hours, and can attack from any direction and at any angle, from flat to vertical. By 2015 hundreds of Harop systems had been sold to different customers worldwide.