Spike missiles, fire-and-forget guided missile systems mounted on Vilkas Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs), have been tested for the first time by the Lithuanian military.
The Israel-made system was tried out on January 14-18 during a combat shooting drills of the Grand Duke Algirdas Mechanized Infantry Battalion.
Spike missiles have been installed on Lithuania’s newly acquired Vilkas IFVs and are one of the three types of weapon systems installed on these vehicles.
Under the contract with their producer, German consortium ARTEC, Lithuania is buying 88 IFVs equipped with Spike missiles, as well as US-made 30 mm MK-44S cannons and 7.62 mm machine guns. (LRT/Business World Magazine)
