Have Lite is an advanced air-to-ground precision guided missile. Have Lite is marketed by PGSUS, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Rafael. With Have Lite, fighter aircraft can attack and destroy high-value ground and sea targets from long range, including bunkers, power plants, missile sites, bridges, and ships. Multiple guidance modes and options provide lethal accuracy, allowing a building's doorway to become a legitimate target. Accurate and cost effective, the missile system has a very high proven hit probability. Have Lite, with its flexible mission planning and significant standoff range, minimizes fighter aircraft exposure. It can be programmed to fly various horizontal and vertical trajectories and employs autonomous midcourse guidance based on GPS-aided inertial navigation. The missile then homes in on the target using a high-performance IIR or TV seeker and delivers either penetration or blast fragmentation warheads with surgical precision. 

Have Lite is a reduced size and weight version of the AGM-142. It gives fighter aircraft precision standoff capability. The missile features low and high altitude launch trajectories, and is highly survivable, especially in terminal phase. The trminal man-in-the-loop control provides for pinpoint accuracy. High reliability and availability are supported by high-performance IIR and TV seekers that are line replaceable units. The blast fragmentation or penetrating warheads are effective against hard or soft targets.

HAVE LITE is the reduced size and weight version of the AGM-142.

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In this test, the missile was launched from a single seat U.S. Air Force F-16, flying 0.7 mach at an altitude of 8,700 feet. After weapon release, the missile flew a straight path using Global Positioning System (GPS) guidance to locate the target area.

The aircraft then turned away from the target while maintaining data link with the missile. When in range, the F-16 pilot maneuvered the missile into the target using man-in-the-loop controls with the missile's terminal guidance TV seeker. As planned, the missile struck the target with an inert warhead. 

In May 1997 Israel and Turkey agreed to jointly produce the Popeye 2 air-to-ground missile in a deal initially worth about $100 million dollars. The new deal involved a consortium to be established between two Turkish firms and Rafael to jointly produce the Popeye 2, a smaller missile with more advanced technology. The Popeye 2, also known as the Have Lite, is designed for deployment on fighter aircraft and has a range of 150 kilometers. The Popeye 2 missiles were expected to be delivered beginning in 2000. The overall Popeye 1 and Popeye 2 missiles program with Turkey was valued at some $500 million. 

In December 1999 press reports suggested the possibility of the sale of Popeye 2 missiles to India. US officials told Israel that they were concerned about sales of arms to India because of tensions in the region.