This APC equipped with Lance surface-to-surface for medium range missiles. Lance APC is based on M113, and used in artillery forces. After Yom Kippur War (1973) Israel bought this system from US.
Every launcher can launch missile with every 45 min, and it could carry one missile. This vechicle were operational until early 90s and the vechicle range is 450 km.
Lance missile:
Diameter: 560mm
Range: 75 km
Length: 6.17m
Weight: 1540 kg
The United States sent Israel the Lance short-range (130 km/450 kg) SSM system in the mid-1970s to counter the build-up of missiles the Soviet Union provided to the Arab states. Israel has had indigenously produced cluster munition warheads for the Lance missiles for over a decade. |
