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spike is an israeli fire-and-forget anti-tank guided missile and anti-personnel missile with a tandem-charge heat warhead, currently in its fourth generation. it was developed and designed by the israeli company rafael advanced defense systems. it is available in man-portable, vehicle-launched, and helicopter-launched variants.
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 through a "fire, observe and update" method (essentially lock-on after launch); the operator tracking the target, or switching to another target, optically through the trailing fiber-optic wire (or rf link in the case of the vehicle-mounted, long-range nlos variant) while the missile is climbing to altitude after launch. this is similar to the lofted trajectory flight profile of the us fgm-148 javelin.