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Israeli Apaches now capable of firing Spike ATGM

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Israel has completed modifications to it Apache attack helicopters so that they can fire the Rafael Spike anti-tank guided missile.

Spike ER Missile FSMU (ADAS 2016)
By Rhk111 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Ynet News said that the move was necessary after Washington withheld the shipment of Hellfire missiles during Operation Protective Edge in 2014.

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