US shoulder launch guided missile
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US new guided missile---SPIKE.Name same as Sg's!!
SPIKE Fire-and-Forget Guided Missile Kills Fast-Moving Assymetric Threats
fr defensereview 15.06.2006
Light Support Weapons by David Crane
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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... -
I wonder why they didn't get another name? Maybe to ride on the sucess of our version of Spike? I think there will be copyright infringement if they use a name which had been used by another company's product.
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lol similar sentiments when i read the first few sentences... Haha..
Thought they made a mistake or something.. Spike was ours!!!