IAI Harpy

The IAI Harpy is an anti-radar loitering munition produced by Israel Aerospace Industries. It is a small unmanned airframe that loiters over a target area and then dives onto a radar emitter, carrying a high explosive warhead, and it is optimised for the suppression of enemy air defences. The design traces to the late 1980s, when Kentron sold the plans of its ARD-10 loitering drone to IAI, which developed the Harpy from them and first tested it in 1989. The specifications given for the base Harpy include a length of 2.7 metres, a wingspan of 2.1 metres, a gross weight of 135 kilograms, a Wankel rotary engine and a range of 200 kilometres. It has been sold to several countries, among them South Korea, India and China, and a 2004 dispute over upgrading the Chinese examples strained relations between the United States and Israel. Mini Harpy and Harpy NG are later variants.