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IAI Harpy

An Israeli anti-radiation loitering-munition family developed by IAI. Its radar-emission seeker distinguishes it from the electro-optical Harop and from Mini Harpy. IAI’s current product claim and SIPRI’s historical autonomy research serve different purposes: one advertises a system, the other analyses how this weapon category developed. Historical and current versions must remain separate.[1][2]

Design origin
Israel[1]
Research edition
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No scaled drawing is provided for this configuration. See the sourced dimensions and their limitations.

Side view · schematic
Schematic top view of the general configuration. Not to scale and not an exact depiction of the model.

Public-source profile. Performance claims are attributed; type links do not verify an incident identification.

also known as HARPY, Harpy NG, Гарпия, הארפי

Public-source profile. Performance claims are attributed; type links do not verify an incident identification.

Press factsheet ↗Source-bound type data ↗

The numbers, with their sources

Intervals preserve the published bounds; they are not statistical confidence intervals. A blank lower or upper bound stays open. Values belong to the named configuration, not every aircraft.

Published flight range

Unknown in reviewed sources

Body length

Unknown in reviewed sources

Wingspan

Unknown in reviewed sources

Endurance

≤ 9 h[1]HARPY · current IAI product page · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01
Published upper limit

Same-class research profiles · published range, km · open bounds remain open

One scale. Different machines.

No scaled drawing is provided for this configuration. See the sourced dimensions and their limitations.

Human height is an illustrative 1.8 m; bus length an illustrative 12 m. Car length uses the cited MINI specification. Vehicle heights and drone side contours are schematic. Top views preserve published length and span; an absent dimension is never guessed.

One car length here is 3.821 m: MINI Cooper 3 door, March 2020 specification.

In our archive

Not yet named as a model in this archive — sources usually say only “drone” or name the family.

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Where this type appears

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Family & configurations

IAI Harpy

Form, sound & identification limits

  • IAI currently advertises missions lasting up to nine hours. This is a manufacturer claim for the product page consulted, not a retroactive specification for the early Harpy systems discussed by SIPRI. No historical warhead, cost or airframe dimension is transferred to the current system.[1][2]
  • SIPRI places Harpy in the early history of anti-radar loitering weapons and examines autonomy by function. That analysis is an independent research origin, not a second endurance test. “Autonomous” must not be read as a universal account of every configuration or every incident.[2]
  • Harop has its own profile. Mini Harpy is also a separate product, with its own seeker combinations and published figures. Similar names, transport canisters and loitering roles do not make those specifications interchangeable.[1][2]

Shape or sound alone cannot identify a drone. Follow local public-safety alerts; do not approach wreckage.

No licensed, model-attested recording is available in our sound library.

What does it cost?

Published USD figures use different price bases and years. Airframes, export packages and support are not equivalent. These are not current offers or verified production costs.

Unknown in reviewed sources

Countermeasures in public analysis

No type-specific, independently supported summary is included in this edition.

Source notebook

  1. Israel Aerospace Industries · HARPY anti-radiation loitering munition

    Publication date not stated · Source consulted: 2026-11-01 · Manufacturer claim

    Consulted via search index; direct page unavailable

  2. SIPRI · Mapping the development of autonomy in weapon systems (November 2017)

    Publication date not stated · Source consulted: 2026-11-01 · Approximate / analyst compilation

Cite this profile

DroneLedger. IAI Harpy. Research edition 2026-11-01. https://droneincidents.com/drones/harpy/

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