IAI Nimrod

The Nimrod is a long-range air-to-surface missile developed by Israel Aerospace Industries. It was designed mainly for anti-tank warfare, but it also gives standoff strike against armoured personnel carriers, ships, bunkers and troop concentrations. A semi-active laser seeker guides it by day or night, and its flight path can be set below cloud layers while a forward reconnaissance team designates the target with a laser from up to 26 km away. The missile is stored in a sealed canister that doubles as its launcher, and it can be mounted on towed launchers, light combat vehicles, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, with up to four fired at once from a single pack. In the Israel Defense Forces its main helicopter launch platform is a modified Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion. Variants are the Nimrod 2, the longer-range Nimrod 3 and the short-range Nimrod SR, and it serves with Israel and Colombia.