Loitering weapon systems are gaining popularity at suppressing rocket and missile threats

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Loitering expendable weapon systems are seen today as very useful in suppressing massive rocket attacks.

In addition to the Harop developed by Israel aerospace industries (IAI) ,

Uvision a small Israeli unmanned air systems (UAS) manufacturer tries to penetrate the market with two new versions of existing systems.

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The company has released some details about its HERO-30 expendable reconnaissance UAV, and the HERO-400 Loitering Attack Munition.

The company says that the two systems were upgrderd by new propulsion, power generation, avionics and datalinks systems, as well as improved payloads.

The company has also developed a common command and control system to be shared by all HERO family UAS.

It says that sharing command and control infrastructure across the family maximizes the commander’s flexibility in deploying these assets in response to rapidly evolving combat scenarios.