Harop

Israel Aerospace Industries' canister-launched, man-in-the-loop loitering munition — an expendable UAV-missile hybrid built to hunt, loiter, and destroy air defenses and high-value targets with electro-optical precision.

Overview

The Harop is an extended-endurance loitering munition that sits at the premium end of the attack-drone spectrum. Launched from sealed canisters aboard trucks or ships, it flies for six to nine hours over an area of interest, transmitting live video to an operator who can search, identify, and strike a target with claimed sub-metre accuracy — or abort and re-attack if the situation changes. While it inherited the airframe and canister footprint of the fully autonomous Harpy anti-radiation drone, the Harop replaced the anti-radar seeker with an electro-optical/infrared turret and full man-in-the-loop control, broadening the target set from emitters alone to anything the operator sees.

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