Missile System Team Trainer
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.
Tel Aviv, Israel
972-73-3324710
www.rafael.co.il
Latvian National Armed Forces have completed the installation of a new state-of-the-art team trainer for SPIKE missiles. The new system will train Latvian forces to use Rafael Advanced Defense System’s SPIKE LR2 and SR missiles, procured from EuroSpike, which is a joint venture involving Rafael, Diehl Defence, and Rheinmetall Electronics. SPIKE LR2 is a 5th generation missile with an engagement range of 5.5 km, and SPIKE SR is a company-level fire-and-forget light missile for 2km.
The STT (SPIKE Team Trainer), was installed at the end of August 2020 by teams from Rafael and EuroSpike. The STT gives the SPIKE LR2 and SPIKE SR gunners, squad, and section commanders fully-simulated battlefield training, improving both gunnery and command and control proficiency levels, leading the gunner through all stages of the firing sequence from VIS or IR surveillance of a simulated image up to target impact.
The STT can simulate real-time battle management challenges, such as command and control of multiple launchers, training in synergy between observation and fire positions and it trains the gunners and commanders in handling different scenarios. The STT uniquely-simulates different environmental scenarios on a real terrain database, with varying visibility conditions, simulating the different seasons of the year, and it can be developed and adjusted based on the customer’s specific request, such as real threat analysis, fighting doctrine and expected enemy course-of-action.
The training SPIKE platoons go through a full cycle of mission planning, mission execution and detailed debriefing after action according to the data collected during the scenario, which is fully documented using video, audio and radio recordings, allowing optimal post-mission debriefing.
The SPIKE SR is a light shoulder-launched disposable fire-and-forget missile, effective up to 2 km. Weighing only 10 kg, and with a dual seeker, the SPIKE SR allows the maneuvering infantry to acquire and engage fast-moving targets at short range, thanks to its advanced tracker.
The SPIKE LR2 is a fifth-generation multipurpose missile. Featuring improved engagement ranges of up to 5.5 km. SPIKE LR2 weighs only 13 kg, possesses enhanced lethality, advanced target tracking capabilities, and a new network-enabled third-party target allocation enhancement with an embedded inertial measurement unit (IMU) assembly.
According to Mr. Gal Papier, head of marketing at Rafael’s Precision Tactical Weapon Systems directorate: “The Latvian SPIKE Team Trainer (STT) will allow the Latvian Army to both qualify and sustain a high level of current and future generation SPIKE gunners and commanders, enabling them advanced and significant antitank capabilities.”
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