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UVision

Israeli loitering-munition maker behind the modular HERO family — man-portable to long-range strike — now winning near-$1B US Army deals and moving up into battle-management software.

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UVision
Loitering MunitionsCombat-fieldedILPrivate
Israeli loitering-munition maker behind the modular HERO family — man-portable to long-range strike — now winning near-$1B US Army deals and moving up into battle-management software.
Founded
2011
HQ
Emek Hefer (Sapir), Israel
Headcount
~300
Total raised
Privately heldcontract-funded
Stage
Private

Background

UVision Air Ltd. was founded in 2011 in Israel's Emek Hefer industrial park by IDF and defense-industry veterans, and is led by CEO Dr. Ran Gozali (a former senior Rafael executive) under owner Aaron Frenkel.

Its core product is the HERO family of loitering munitions — a modular line spanning the man-portable Hero-20/30 up to the long-range Hero-1250, plus a rotary-wing Hero-R — for air, land and sea use, several variants of which are tracked in the BattlePolicy Lexicon.

UVision has expanded from a munition vendor toward the command layer: it acquired the loitering-munition startup SpearUAV in late 2025 and launched CORTEX, a battle-management system, in June 2026 — while landing one of the largest US contracts ever for an Israeli drone maker.

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