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Spike: Know about Israeli tank buster which India brought.

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last year the Defence Acquisition Council chaired by then Defence Minister Arun Jaitley had cleared the Spike ATGM deal worth Rs. 3,200 crore deal for 8,000 plus missiles, 300 plus launchers and requisite transfer of technology to an Indian firm.
Spike family includes Spike-SR (800m), Spike-MR (2500m), Spike-LR (4000m) and Spike-ER (8000m). Spike-LR and Spike-ER are also vehicle mountable and Spike-ER can also be fitted into Attack copters.
Rafael has tied up with Kalyani Group to jointly manufacture Spike Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (ATGM) in India while Public sector unit Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) will be the lead system integrator.
Indian have placed orders for 8356 ATGMS of Spike family which will also include the purchase of 321 launchers. India likely has placed orders for Spike-LR and Spike-ER variants and ER variant can be fitted with networking capabilities which come with military grade GPS and VHF data link capacity which allows it to be operated from a laptop by its operator.
Spike missile coupled with CCD and IIR seeker provides higher sensitivity and improved thermal background characters allowing it to be operated in all weather conditions. Spike-LR variant along with ER variant can be fired in fire and forget mode.
Spike-ER variant comes with bigger warhead which makes it an ideal system to be used from light combat vehicles or attack helicopters which also allows its operator to launch missile before choosing its target.
Spike also comes in heavier 70kg NLOS (Non-Line Of Sight) variant which allows its operator to fire a missile from a covered position which can impact targets within range of 25kms and is dubbed has a high-precision guided tactical ground-to-ground battlefield missile.
Indian Army is expected to start taking deliveries of the new ATGM from 2017 onwards while Army’s 382 infantry battalions and 44 mechanised regiments have a requirement of more than 40,000 missiles.
DRDO is also building India’s own indigenous ATGM Family for which Vehicle mounted NAG ATGM has been developed and Air launched variant is under the developmental stage while DRDO is also planning to develop Man-portable NAG ATGM along with NLOS type variant for fighter jets operations in near future

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