Army awards AV LASSO award, joining Textron, Uvision in prototyping competition
The company said in a release today that it will be providing its Switchblade 400 product, a portable, anti-armor loitering munition with medium range.
The company said in a release today that it will be providing its Switchblade 400 product, a portable, anti-armor loitering munition with medium range.
"This award reflects the growing demand for loitering munitions and validates the operational value of the HERO 120 and the HERO family of systems," CEO of Uvision Group Ran Gozali said in a press release.
UVision's CEO Ran Gozali said his vision of the company also includes transitioning from “single loitering munitions towards autonomous, multi-launch arrays.”
The war in “Ukraine and what happened in Israel has put in the spotlight the use of unmanned systems," UVision exec Izthik Huber told Breaking Defense.
Loitering munitions were used extensively in the recent conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Uvision’s Hero line of loitering munitions – aka kamikaze drones – carry precision-guided warheads ranging from just over a pound to 17-plus lbs.
UVision has opened a US subsidiary, CEO Avi Mizrahi says, and hopes to open a plant in the US within the next year.
As the US tightens its terms for financing the Israeli military, one of America's closest allies is beginning to sell its weapons to the US, instead of the other way around.