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By Seth J. Frantzman
October 14, 2025
JERUSALEM — A recent, nearly $1 billion contract between the Army and a team-up of Israeli firm Uvision and US-based Mistral Inc. for loitering munitions is, Uvision hopes, the beginning of a longer-term relationship under the service’s Low Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordnance (LASSO) program.
The Uvision-made Hero 120 loitering munition “is combat-proven and fielded, and we take those lessons learned around the world and they get fed back into the system and we continuously to improve the capabilities, and we are uniquely positioned as Army moves forward to meet them,” Jarmin Blanton, vice president of Business Development, Sales and Marketing at Uvision, said in an interview.
The company announced on Oct. 3 it and Mistral had won a multi-year $982 million Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contract “to procure, field, train and sustain” the HERO 120 under the Army’s Lethal Unmanned System program. But Blanton said the company thinks the drone would be a good fit for the LASSO program, which he said would make it a more permanent feature of US Army operations in the future.
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Like other Israeli systems, the Uvision family of systems seeks to be modular and plug-and-play. Blanton says the system is “agnostic to radio, warhead and launcher. We listen to where the customer wants us to go and partner to make our supply chain more robust … our system is composed of American technology and an American supply chain.”
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breakingdefense.com
October 14, 2025
JERUSALEM — A recent, nearly $1 billion contract between the Army and a team-up of Israeli firm Uvision and US-based Mistral Inc. for loitering munitions is, Uvision hopes, the beginning of a longer-term relationship under the service’s Low Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordnance (LASSO) program.
The Uvision-made Hero 120 loitering munition “is combat-proven and fielded, and we take those lessons learned around the world and they get fed back into the system and we continuously to improve the capabilities, and we are uniquely positioned as Army moves forward to meet them,” Jarmin Blanton, vice president of Business Development, Sales and Marketing at Uvision, said in an interview.
The company announced on Oct. 3 it and Mistral had won a multi-year $982 million Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contract “to procure, field, train and sustain” the HERO 120 under the Army’s Lethal Unmanned System program. But Blanton said the company thinks the drone would be a good fit for the LASSO program, which he said would make it a more permanent feature of US Army operations in the future.
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Like other Israeli systems, the Uvision family of systems seeks to be modular and plug-and-play. Blanton says the system is “agnostic to radio, warhead and launcher. We listen to where the customer wants us to go and partner to make our supply chain more robust … our system is composed of American technology and an American supply chain.”
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Israel's Uvision looks to cement US Army ties after nearly $1B loitering munition win - Breaking Defense
"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.
