It may be just what is needed as a Navy force protection weapon, as an armament for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or the tool for ground forces to engage mobile threats. One thing is for sure. In a test on Wednesday, April 12, the world’s smallest, tactical, “fire-and-forget” precision-guided missile impacted its 2-meter target (eight inches from dead center) at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division China Lake, Calif., after being launched from 1000 meters away.Weighing only 5.3 pounds, 25 inches in length, and 2.25 inches in diameter, this dynamo missile, named Spike, demonstrated its ability to find and hit such targets as small boats, helicopters, bunkers, machine gun nests, plus small armored vehicles with minimal collateral damage to the surrounding environment.

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