It has a range of up to 32 kilometers for striking stationary or moving targets. The 70-kilogram Spike-NLOS missile offers an impressive range at a distance three or four times the maximum range of the helicopter’s standard Hellfire missile.
As well as testing on ah64e has finished and can now be used
The missile itself
the missile advances toward the specified GPS coordinates and locks onto the target by detecting its heat signature with its internal infrared seeker. It allows for target redesignation. This is achieved by providing a fiber-optic cable through the TADS/PNVS tracking viewer located in the nose section, which supplies imagery to the gunner during the missile’s flight. This provides the capability for “operator-controlled attack.” Spike has a blast-fragmentation effect
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Blast-frag is useless against tanks, it’s an urban warfare tool, designed around the war they’re currently fighting. If they use the AT warhead it’d be fine, but you already have the UH-60 battle hawk with 16 and decent optics, easier to get to than the AH-64 too
Spike NLOS main warhead its HEAT.
Also AH-64 its a better platform than the brick AH-60 and the spike nlos has longer range.
I want my EO/TV or IIR guidence in the spikes, if my helos not going to have broken LDIRCM, then give me my realistic guidence to kill helis that have them
My honest LMUR reaction
LMUR is also much larger in the explosive mass department…
Like, almost 20kg of TNT equivalent, which is, a lot of explosives, that easily burst a tanks roof armor or hull floor. To set an example, the average HE anti-tank land mine only has around 14 kg of TNT which easily knocks a tank out of action.
They indicatively stated blast frag in their post.
idk why he would ask for that spike version…