IMDEX Asia: Firing up Protector for Asia
A highlight for Rafael at IMDEX Asia 2017 is a new Spike missile mission module for its Protector USV, with the Israeli company announcing in March that it had successfully test-fired it.
Yoav Har-Even, Rafael’s CEO and president, told Shephard that the ‘missile-firing capability allows pinpoint attack of land or naval targets, enabling safe vessel operation from – with no risk to the operating force – a remote C2 room or from aboard other naval platforms’.
The Spike test-firing concluded the operational integration process of the Protector’s entire mission suite. his includes the Mini-Typhoon, water cannon, non-lethal means, electronic warfare systems,
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