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UVision unveils loitering munition system

17th May 2017 - 16:35 GMT | by Alice Budge in London

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UVision unveiled the Hero-400EC, its latest loitering munition system, on 17 May at the Ground Warfare and Logistics Conference in Israel.

According to Noam Levitt, CEO of UVision, the new system was designed to meet the challenge of providing a ‘long-range platform that could remain in the air for extended periods of time’ and ‘provide a substantial warhead effective against a wide variety of targets’.

The Hero-400EC uses man-in-the loop technology and advanced EO/IR payloads that can locate, track and strike static or moving targets in urban or remote locations.

The system’s electric motor is designed to loiter silently above

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