UVision shows eight-canister Hero-120 launcher, CORTEX network, and Peregrine MR at AUSA

TLDR

• UVision showed an eight-canister Multi-Canister Launcher for its Hero-120 loitering munition at AUSA 2026.¹²
• Packaging launchers, ISR and mission software around munitions reflects a shift towards selling networked strike systems.¹²
• No customer was named for the launcher.¹²

UVision used the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) meeting in Washington to widen its pitch from individual loitering munitions to a networked system.¹² Its Multi-Canister Launcher holds eight Hero-120 loitering munitions, is built for remote operation, and can be set up as a mobile, fixed, or containerised installation; a container can hold up to 20 Hero-120 or Hero-400 munitions.¹² The launcher connects through CORTEX, UVision's mission-management system, and the company showed Tactical CORTEX integrated with Wayland Autonomy's IRIS airborne ISR payload.¹² Border defence was the use case highlighted, and no customer was named for the launcher.¹²

The Hero-120 already has a foothold with the US Army: Mistral Inc. was awarded a Lethal Unmanned Systems contract worth up to $982 million in October 2025 featuring the Hero-120, first lot acceptance tests were passed in August 2026, and a follow-on order worth more than $50 million has been placed. The smaller Hero-90 is part of the Army's LASSO programme.¹²

UVision also presented the Peregrine MR, developed by Trim Robotics, which UVision's US subsidiary acquired in April 2025.³ Manufacturer-reported figures put it at about 6 kg with a 1 kg payload, a 20 km range, 90 km/h cruise and 180 km/h maximum speed, and roughly 15 minutes of endurance with a lethal payload or 27 minutes for reconnaissance.³ It uses an articulated "Dynamic Drive" propulsion arrangement.³ All of these figures are the company's own.³

Why it matters: UVision packaging launchers, ISR, and mission software around its munitions reflects a wider shift from selling single weapons to selling networked strike systems, and a remotely operated multi-canister launcher suggests loitering munitions being used as a distributed, semi-fixed layer, not only as a soldier-carried weapon.