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Originally Posted by Ursus Maior
The Pereh was one of Israel's best kept secrets for about three decades. They started fielding it in the 80s and declassified it in 2015, when it was phased out. That took about until 2017.
The Pereh ("Onager") was based on the Magach 5, i. e. M48 chassis, fitted with 12 Spike NLOS ATGM (range ca. 25 km). The missile itself was not known to the public until 2011. The gun kept a dummy gun to make it look less suspicious, but secondary armament encompassed only two FN MAGs as machine-guns, though additional front armor was used.
The Pereh is probably the best bang for your M48-bucks you could get. The Spike NLOS was recently bought bought by the UK and ordered by the US (in 2020). So it's still very much in the game.
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It's possibly worth noting that the UK received two different versions of Spike NLOS. The UK's Exactor-1 is the Spike NLOS Mk.2, and the Exactor-2 is the Spike NLOS Mk.5. The latter is the newest version, which has different airfoils from the other 4 versions, but other than that I haven't been able to find any descriptions of differences between the various marks.