This footage, provided by a Hezbollah media outlet, shows one of their militants firing an Anti-tank Guided Missile (ATGM) at the border between Lebanon and Israel, ostensibly scoring several hits on vehicles and targets there.

The Almas is an unlicensed, reverse-engineered copy of Israel’s Spike ATGM, which can be fired in a lock-on, fire-and-forget configuration or fire-observe-update mode, in which case the missile can be steered and oriented via fiber optic link. It is principally used to attack targets from the top down, as seen here, in much the same manner as the vaunted Javelin system. The original Israeli Spike platform was unveiled in the 1980s, whereas the Almas copy was released in 2022. It is another in the seemingly endless examples of Iran designing and disseminating weapons to terrorist organizations.

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