Hero-120

A canister-launched, electric-propulsion loitering munition designed for precision anti-armor strikes with man-in-the-loop control, now adopted by the US Army and Marine Corps.

Overview

The Hero-120 is a medium-range loitering munition developed by Israel’s UVision Air Ltd. It combines an electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) seeker with a 4.5 kg combined anti-armor/anti-personnel warhead, enabling it to loiter over a target area, provide real-time ISR, and execute precision top-attack or direct-impact strikes with claimed sub-1-metre accuracy. The system is tube-launched from a canister, can be operated from land vehicles, naval vessels, and—since 2025—combat helicopters, and is recoverable by parachute if an engagement is aborted. By mid-2026, the US Army had awarded a $982 million sole-source IDIQ contract for the Lethal Unmanned System (LUS) programme, the US Marine Corps had selected it for its Organic Precision Fires – Mounted (OPF-M) requirement, and a Rheinmetall-led production line was delivering systems to an unnamed NATO customer.

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