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| Thursday, January
3, 2013, 07:00 AM |
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| Belgium
selects the Spike missile of EuroSpike to replace its anti-tank missiles
Milan. |
The
Belgian Minister of Defence approved December 10, 2012, a budget for the
purchase of 66 new anti-tank missile systems for an amount of 41 million
Euro. This is the German Company Eurospike that won the contract with
its anti-tank and anti-fortifications missile Spike
Medium-Range (MR).
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EuroSpike GmbH is a joint
venture of Rheinmetall Defence Electronics (RDE, Bremen), Diehl BGT
Defence GmbH & Co. KG (DBD, Überlingen) and Rafael Armament
Development Authority, (Rafael, Haifa, Israel). The main objectives
of EuroSpike are the marketing and supply of the SPIKE family of multi-purpose
guided missile systems.
The SPIKE family of missiles represents the latest generation of anti-armor/multi-purpose
weapon systems that combines fire & forget and fire observe &
update capabilities with pinpoint accuracy over the full range of 2,500m
for Spike
Medium-Range (MR), 4,000m for Spike Long Range (LR) and
up to 8,000m for Spike Extended Range (ER).
The Spike-MR
is a lightweight, man-portable, Fire and Forget, multi-purpose
missile system with a range of up to 2,500 meters. Its Fire and Forget
operational mode guarantees maximum gunner survivability and high hit
probability. Spike-MR is predestined for modern operations in the multi-faceted
battle.
Belgium will also bought 111 short range anti-tank weapons Panzerfaust
3 (PzF 3) manufactured by the German Company Dynamit Nobel Defence.
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Panzerfaust
3 short range anti-tank anti-fortifications weapon system |
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