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  • Spike (missile)
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  • Spike is a 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.
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is explosive
  • yes
detonation
  • Impact
Origin
  • Israel
Rate
  • 15.0
filling
  • Tandem-charge HEAT warhead
Guidance
  • Infrared homing – Electro Optical , Passive CCD or dual CCD/IIR seeker
Service
  • 1997
Name
  • Spike
Type
Align
  • right
Caption
  • Spike ATGM Command & launcher unit with mock-up Spike-LR missile mounted on a tripod at Singapore Army Open House 2007
is missile
  • yes
Max range
  • depending on version
Wars
Weight
  • Spike-ER from helicopter:
  • Spike-MR/LR from ground:
  • • Battery:
  • • Command & launch unit :
  • • Launcher + 4 missiles:
  • • Launcher:
  • • Missile in canister:
  • • Missile round:
  • • Thermal sight:
  • • Tripod:
Manufacturer
is UK
  • no
Sights
  • 10
Image
Used by
  • [[#Users
is ranged
  • yes
Engine
  • Solid-fuel rocket
production date
  • 1997
design date
  • 1987
Topic
  • Mini Spike Anti-personnel guided weapon
Variants
  • [[#Versions
abstract
  • Spike is a 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.