The configuration avoids replacing the entire launcher or making major changes to the turret. Integration requires the original mechanical connection, a wired link to the fire-control system and additional electronics to operate Spike missiles.
Spike LR2 was successfully tested from a Bradley TOW launcher during Project Convergence 2021. The companies displayed a more mature adapter configuration at this year’s AUSA exhibition.
The adapter supports a two-container arrangement, but a vehicle could also carry one Spike container alongside a TOW container. That would allow crews to select a missile load according to tactical requirements and available ammunition.
Spike LR2 offers approximately one kilometer more practical range and can send imagery back to the vehicle. It also supports engagements against targets behind obstacles and allows the target to be changed during flight.
The project is focused on the Bradley family, with possible later applications on other TOW-equipped platforms. Details of the electronics installed in the test vehicle remain limited.
Rafael’s wider display includes Spike NLOS mounted on an Infantry Squad Vehicle in the Mobile Long-Range Precision Strike Missile configuration. Spike NLOS is also integrated on the Army’s AH-64E Apache and was successfully fired during RIMPAC 2026 in the Pacific.
The company is presenting L-SPIKE 4X, a high-speed loitering missile designed to launch from existing Spike NLOS launchers. It is intended for rotary-wing aircraft, naval vessels and ground vehicles.
“We are bringing a wide range of advanced, combat-proven systems to AUSA 2026, spanning air and missile defense, precision fires, ground maneuver and intelligence, alongside next-generation capabilities such as Sky Sonic,” said Yoav Tourgeman, president and chief executive of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. “What Rafael USA offers the U.S. Army is not only proven capability but capacity.”
“Our systems are built to defeat high-end threats and produced at a scale that can sustain a long fight,” Tourgeman said. “Today’s wars do not end in a few days.”
Rafael is also displaying Iron Beam 450 and Lite Beam laser systems, alongside Hunter Eagle and Light Hunter drone interceptors. Its missile-defense exhibits include Tamir, Stunner and the first full-scale Sky Sonic display at AUSA, with Sky Sonic designed to counter hypersonic threats.
For ground vehicles, the Samson All-in-One remote weapon station combines a 30 mm cannon, dual Spike LR2 launcher and Trophy active protection system. This year’s offering adds Iron Wasp, an encapsulated interceptor drone designed to protect armored vehicles against FPV drones.
The exhibit also includes MicroLite, a surveillance payload for tactical uncrewed aircraft, and Sigma, which analyzes radio-frequency sensor data to reveal enemy activity. Rafael USA is at Booth 3225 during the October 12–14 exhibition at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington.
