page_title: IAI Harop
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: IAI Harop / Overview
caption_attribution_description: Photograph taken at: Paris Air Show, 17 June 2013–23 June 2013 English: IAI Harop UAV at Paris Air Show 2013. Deutsch: IAI Harop UAV auf der Paris Air Show 2013.
context_page_description: The IAI Harop is a loitering munition developed by the MBT division of Israel Aerospace Industries. It is an anti-radiation drone that can autonomously home in on radio emissions. Rather than holding a separate high-explosive warhead, the drone itself is the main munition. This SEAD-optimised loitering munition is designed to loiter the battlefield and attack targets by self-destructing into them. The drone can either operate fully autonomously, using its anti-radar homing system, or it can take a human-in-the-loop mode. If a target is not engaged, the drone will return and land itself back at base.
  It has been designed to minimize its radar-signature through stealth. This anti-radiation drone is designed to target enemy air-defense systems in a first line of attack, as the small drone can evade SAMs and radar detection systems which are designed to target much larger aircraft or to intercept fixed-trajectory missiles.
context_section_description: The IAI Harop has a loiter (flying) time of 6 hours and a range of 1000 km both ways. It is a larger version of the IAI Harpy and is launched from ground- or sea-based canisters, but can be adapted for air-launch. The Harop can either operate fully autonomously, or it can take a man-in-the-loop mode, being controlled by a remote operator. The Harop features two guidance modes: it can either home in on radio emissions by itself with its anti-radar homing system, or the operator can select static or moving targets detected by the aircraft's electro-optical sensor. This latter mode allows the Harop to attack radars that are presently shut down and therefore not providing emissions for the aircraft to automatically home in on.   If a target is not engaged, the drone will return and land itself back at base.
  IAI is developing a smaller version of the Harop for smaller applications, which it will unveil in 2015.  The smaller Harop would be one-fifth the size and have a lighter 3–4 kg (6.6–8.8 lb) warhead.  It will  be cheaper and have a shorter endurance of 2–3 hours to be used tactically against time-critical targets or ones that hide and re-appear.
caption: side view.
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