THE VIDEO GAMER SPECIAL– FOR RUSSIA WITH SPITE: OK, make that “with SPIKE.” Israel and Poland have struck a joint production deal to mount Israeli Spike NLOS (Non-Line Of Sight) long-range missiles on Polish “tank-destroyer” vehicles. The missile has a range of 25-32 kilometers. When linked to forward observers and 21st century sensors, Polish NLOS vehicles “could launch surprise mass attacks on distant enemy armor.”

Spike NLOS does not rely on a laser designator or GPS to get to its target. Instead the missile has an encrypted data-link with the launching vehicle that puts the missile close enough to the targets for the onboard target detection and recognition system to identify tanks and attack.

Massed Russian tanks beware: A long-range, “distributed” (dispersed), mobile, armor protected and ground-based anti-tank platform. The article also discusses other weapons similar to Spike NLOS and what the capabilities “smart” missiles give defending forces. For the record, in 2017 the Philippines bought the air-launched version of Spike NLOS to “use…off their west coast, to help block Chinese efforts to take possession of Filipino islands and reefs.”