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Fallout Re: Advise on stats for Mini-Spike APGW

I might piss off some people here but, nowhere in the previous ref provided and again below and the rest do they say the "mini spike" is deployed with the Israeli or any other export customers military. I would just advise caution here.
As of the Summer of 2012 as noted in ref. 2 it was still in development and I can't find any data to support it after mid-2012 except as noted (not mentioned) at the bottom section of this post from Rafael itself. It would appear this program died somewhere between the Summer of 2012 and now, sooner then later I would guess.

http://defense-update.com/features/2...html#minispike
http://www.army-technology.com/news/...urosatory-2012


From ref. 2 in 2012...
"Developed for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), the missile will help fill the current gap in organically engaging targets, located at a distance of 1,000m to 1,200m at the platoon level.

The spokesman refused to provide further information on the status of the missile development, but noted that the 'full-scale development' was now beyond the critical design phase."

Also it isn't listed on Rafael's own website in their current index of weapons systems provided below...
http://www.rafael.co.il/Marketing/18....aspx?letter=S

Or by application search...
http://www.rafael.co.il/Marketing/34...Marketing.aspx
http://www.rafael.co.il/Marketing/343-en/Marketing.aspx


Also a search from the Rafael website using the term "mini spike missile" gave me five pages of results but none for the mini spike itself.

We've been down this road before, it was the USA Kinetic ATM mounted on a STRYKER that started the same way, got entered but never fully supported I believe by further documentation to show it was approved, made or deployed. End result the documentation was found that the program was killed (And the manufacture I believe went bankrupt.) and we deleted from the game - this about 2-3 years ago. Was in a specific Thread but might also be in the Patch or APC Thread as well, can't remember how we fixed it thread wise.

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