This is an unusually large deal and notable for the manufacturer’s identity, constituting one of the Pentagon’s largest deals with a young Israeli supplier.

The Hero 120 weighs about 24 kg, has a range of about 60 km, an endurance of about an hour, and can carry a combat warhead of 4.5 kg. The system has already been purchased previously by US special forces ($73 million last year), the Marines, Gulf countries, and customers in Europe.

The move sends a message to the market: it seems the Pentagon is encouraging the entry of small companies and startups with cheap and fast-developing technologies – which poses a threat / call for update to the established defense industries in Israel (IAI, Rafael, Elbit) and for the Ministry of Defense to also nurture smaller players.