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Israeli anti-tank missile For the U.S. Navy-designed missile of the same name, see NAVAIR Spike . Spike ( Hebrew : ספייק) is an Israeli fire-and-forget anti-tank guided missile and anti-personnel missile with a tandem-charge high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warhead. As of 2024 , it is in its sixth generation. It was developed and designed by the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems . It is available in man-portable , vehicle-launched, helicopter-launched and maritime variants. The missile can engage and destroy targets within the line-of-sight of the launcher ("fire-and-forget"), and some variants can make a top attack through a "fire, observe and update" method (essentially lock-on after launch ); the operator tracking the target, or switching to another target, optically through the trailing fiber-optic wire (or RF link in the case of the vehicle-mounted, long-range NLOS variant) while the missile is climbing to altitude after launch. This is similar to the lofted trajectory flight profile of the US FGM-148 Javelin . "India receives Spike anti-tank missiles from Israel" . 6 August 2023.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Spike is a fourth generation Man-portable fire-and-forget anti-tank guided missile with Tandem-charged HEAT warhead , developed and designed by the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and in service with a number of nations. As well as engaging and destroying targets within the line-of-sight of the launcher ("Fire-and-forget"), some variants of the missile are capable of making a top-attack profile through a "Fire, Observe and Update" guidance method; the operator tracking the target, or switching to another target, optically through the trailing fiber-optic wire while the missile is climbing to altitude after launch. This is similar to the lofted trajectory flight profile of the US FGM-148 Javelin .
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Spike is an Israeli fourth generation man-portable fire-and-forget anti-tank guided missile and anti-personnel missile with a tandem-charged HEAT warhead , developed and designed by the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and in service with a number of nations. As well as engaging and destroying targets within the line-of-sight of the launcher ("fire-and-forget"), some variants of the missile are capable of making a top-attack profile through a "fire, observe and update" guidance method; the operator tracking the target, or switching to another target, optically through the trailing fiber-optic wire while the missile is climbing to altitude after launch. This is similar to the lofted trajectory flight profile of the US FGM-148 Javelin .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Anti-tank guided missile developed in Israel For the U.S.Navy-designed missile of the same name, see NAVAIR Spike .Spike is an Israeli fire-and-forget anti-tank guided missile and anti-personnel missile with a tandem-charge HEAT warhead , currently in its fourth-generation. It was developed and designed by the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems . It is available in man-portable, vehicle-launched, and helicopter-launched variants.As well as engaging and destroying targets within the line-of-sight of the launcher ("fire-and-forget"), some variants of the missile are capable of making a top attack through a "fire, observe and update" method (essentially lock-on after launch ); the operator tracking the target, or switching to another target, optically through the trailing fiber-optic wire (or RF link in the case of the vehicle-mounted, long-range NLOS variant) while the missile is climbing to altitude after launch. This is similar to the lofted trajectory flight profile of the US FGM-148 Javelin .
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Israeli anti-tank missile For the U.S. Navy-designed missile of the same name, see NAVAIR Spike . Spike ( Hebrew : ספייק) is an Israeli fire-and-forget anti-tank guided missile and anti-personnel missile with a tandem-charge high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warhead.As of 2007 , it is in its fourth generation. It was developed and designed by the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems . It is available in man-portable, vehicle-launched, and helicopter-launched variants. The missile can engage and destroy targets within the line-of-sight of the launcher ("fire-and-forget"), and some variants can make a top attack through a "fire, observe and update" method (essentially lock-on after launch ); the operator tracking the target, or switching to another target, optically through the trailing fiber-optic wire (or RF link in the case of the vehicle-mounted, long-range NLOS variant) while the missile is climbing to altitude after launch. This is similar to the lofted trajectory flight profile of the US FGM-148 Javelin .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “fourth generation man-portable fire-and-forget anti-tank guided missile with tandem-charged heat warhead”. Today it says “israeli fire-and-forget anti-tank guided missile and anti-personnel missile with a tandem-charge high-explosive”. Read the current article and compare.
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