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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.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.

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