US new guided missile---SPIKE.Name same
as Sg's!!
SPIKE Fire-and-Forget Guided Missile Kills Fast-Moving
Assymetric Threats
Light Support Weapons by David Crane
[email protected]
Some folks at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division
(NAWCWD), a.k.a. NAVAIR Weapons Division (China Lake,
CA), are currently developing a "man-packable, shoulder-launched
guided missile" system for U.S. infantry warfighters called SPIKE.
The developmental system is essentially a low-cost, compact,
lightweight shoulder-fired fire-and-forget missile system that
incorporates three separate guidance modes--inertial, laser, and
imaging electro-optical--into its targeting system to lock onto the
target and ensure kills against moving targets on the ground and in
the air out to a range of approx. two miles.
DefenseReview found out about SPIKE at SHOT Show 2006 in February
(2006). Steve Felix, one of the engineers on the project, was
walking around the show for some reason, ran into a member of our
team, and handed him the SPIKE fact sheet (pictured). When we
subsequently interviewed Mr. Felix in March (2006), he informed us
that the impetus for the project was to give our infantry
warfighters an...
fr defensereview 15.06.2006
