(Defense News) Jen Judson - The U.S. Army has decided to field Israeli-made Spike Non-Line-of-Sight long-range precision missiles on its attack helicopters, Brig.-Gen. Wally Rugen, in charge of Army aviation modernization, said on Jan. 8. The Army fired Spike missiles from Apache attack helicopters both in Israel and at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona last year. Defense News was present for one test in August 2019. The Apache hid behind 1,600 feet of craggy mountain and took aim at a target representing a Russian Pantsir medium-range, surface-to-air missile system on the opposite slope. The missiles hit every target across nine total shots used to evaluate the system. The last missile hit a moving target in the dark.
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