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.

Development

UVision Air Ltd. was founded in Israel in 2011 to develop the Hero family of loitering munitions, with the Hero-120 positioned as the medium-class platform between the infantry-portable Hero-30 and the longer-range Hero-400. In 2021, UVision and Rheinmetall signed a partnership that gave Rheinmetall European marketing and industrial rights, leading to licensed production at RWM Italia’s Sardinia facilities Army Technology. That same year the US Marine Corps selected the Hero-120 to meet its OPF-M requirement FlightGlobal. The first NATO contract through the Rheinmetall channel followed in 2022. A US government contract worth $73.55 million for the Hero-120SF variant was awarded in June 2024 EDR Magazine. In June 2025 UVision unveiled an aerial-launch rack that allows the Hero-120 to be deployed from combat helicopters UVision. The program’s most significant milestone came on 3 October 2025, when US prime contractor Mistral Inc. and Uvision Inc. received a $982 million multi-year IDIQ from the US Army for the Lethal Unmanned System (LUS) programme, covering deliveries through 2030 Mistral/Uvision. Rheinmetall’s Sardinia production was expanded later that month, and in November 2025 a low-three-digit-million euro order for “several hundred” systems was booked for an undisclosed NATO nation Army Technology; EDR Magazine.

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