Rafael's Spice-250 guided bomb, now in its final stages of devel-opment, will allow fighters to perform accurate standoff launch-and-leave attacks against an unprecedented number of targets. Coupled with the company's new Litening 5 targeting pod, it gives the fighter the ability to designate its own targets well beyond effective laser range. These are two of a number of weapons and systems that constitute new-technology reconnaissance-strike complexes emerging from Israel's combat experience and intended to attack hard-to-find targets with minimal collateral damage. Spice-250, for instance, has an 80-kg (176-lb.) warhead, while Israel Aerospace Industries' Harop loitering weapon-in full production for the Israel Defense Forces and for export-carries a 15-kg lethal payload.
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