IAI's Teaser, revealed at AUSA 2024, is a guided missile that does not rely upon a homing sensor or GNSS. (Janes/Dan Wasserbly)
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced it has completed a development phase for its Teaser, an automatic command to line-of-sight infantry missile that uses external optical guidance without a homing sensor or global navigation satellite services (GNSS).
Teaser “can attack ground targets, light structures, lightly armoured vehicles, low-altitude aerial vehicles, and moving targets”, the company said in its 15 October announcement at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) conference in Washington, DC.
The missile does not require GNSS and does not have a homing sensor, IAI said. “It uses an external guidance system (the Teaser-Sight) to guide the missile automatically to the target,” IAI said, adding that Teaser-Sight can connect to external sensors.
The system communicates via a radio frequency (RF) datalink with AES-256 encryption to guide the missile, Avi Kadoori, business development manager at IAI, told Janes on 16 October. Without onboard optics and guidance systems, the missile weighs 2.2 kg less than similar missiles with those systems, Kadoori said.
According to a company fact sheet, Teaser is 70 cm in length, 8.4 cm in diameter, and can travel at 200 m/s. The system has two modes of operation: shoulder-launched, with the Teaser-Sight attached to the canister, and remote-launched.
When shoulder-launched, the entire system is carried by a single soldier and can be launched from “enclosed areas” with a two-stage (ejection and booster) embedded motor, IAI said.
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