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Israel's MoD says a new test campaign proves Iron Dome can now hand off threats to the Iron Beam laser mid-battle, letting commanders swap $50,000 missile interceptors for $3-5 laser shots against saturation drone and rocket attacks.
Read the story →Loitering munitions, cruise missiles, and one-way attack drones are routinely conflated in defense reporting. The distinctions -- in target acquisition timing, terminal human control, cost, and payload -- determine which arms control regimes apply and how international humanitarian law governs each weapon's use.
Israel Aerospace Industries invented the loitering munition category with the Harpy in the 1980s. Four decades on, the evolved Harop is combat-proven across two Nagorno-Karabakh wars and serving eight operators — reshaping how militaries think about radar suppression and precision strike.
From a fiberglass Scout that dismantled Syrian SAM batteries in 1982 to a 26-meter turboprop platform operating above commercial airspace today, Israel's Heron family traces the arc of modern persistent ISR — and why Israel controlled 61% of global drone exports for three decades.
A century of military drone history — from a WWI pilotless biplane that never flew in combat, through Israeli operational doctrine and American Cold War scaling, to the commodity FPV revolution reshaping land warfare in Ukraine.
Six decades of air-defense suppression trace how SEAD — the threat that forces radars off the air — and DEAD — the physical kill — evolved from Wild Weasel jets and anti-radiation missiles to autonomous loitering munitions that can outwait a radar gone silent.
From Israel's 1989 Harpy to Ukraine's Lancet hunter-killer teams, loitering munitions fuse sensor and effector into a single expendable platform — a category distinct from both the cruise missile and the reusable drone, and now in procurement at scale across 50-plus countries.
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