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RAFAEL Unveils Ice Breaker Long Range Air-to-Surface Missile
Rendering of Ice Breaker missile (Rafael image)

RAFAEL Unveils Ice Breaker Long Range Air-to-Surface Missile

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. is participating at the Farnborough International Airshow 2022 in the United Kingdom where it will introduce the Ice Breaker: a 5th generation long-range, autonomous, precision-guided missile system, enabling significant attack performance against a variety of high-value land, and sea targets. Ice Breaker is a multi-service solution, across air, land, and sea domains.

Naval News Staff 13 Jul 2022

Rafael press release

This unveiling comes one year since the introduction of the Sea Breaker, which serves as the naval and land-based version of the all-encompassing Ice Breaker. The Ice Breaker offers a full scope of commonality, incorporating not only the land and naval platform application, but now across all domains, with enhanced capabilities.

Ice Breaker is an aerial force-multiplier designed to overcome modern warfare arena challenges through RAFAEL‘s legacy of high-end precision-guided solutions. It is resilient to electronic countermeasures and is fully operational in GNSS-denied arenas.

The new missile provides surgical, pinpoint precision strike capabilities from standoff ranges of up to 300 km. It features an advanced IIR (Imaging Infra-Red) seeker, ideal for stationary or moving land and maritime target engagement in advanced Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) arenas.

RAFAEL Unveils Ice Breaker Long Range Air-to-Surface Missile
Rafael image

It is compatible with various aerial platforms, including jet fighters, light aircraft, and helicopters, and is fully operational across all weather conditions. The missile’s datalink supports real-time man-in-the-loop decision-making and tactical updates, with mid-flight abort and Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) capabilities. Employing RAFAEL’s unique combat-proven artificial intelligence technology, Ice Breaker performs deep-learning and big data-based scene-matching, enabling Automatic Target Acquisition (ATA) and Automatic Target Recognition (ATR).

Flying at high subsonic speeds, Ice Breaker has a multi-directional, synchronized full sphere attack capability, based on predefined attack plans, according to waypoints, azimuth, impact angle and aim-point selection, ensuring a high probability of mission success.

It transforms light platforms (planes, helicopters, and ships) into dominating fighting machines, enlarging the stand-off capability of high-end platforms.

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Ice Breaker Technical Specifications

  • Length: ~4 m
  • Weight: <400 kg
  • Range: Up to 300 km
  • Velocity: High Subsonic
  • Warhead: 250 lb
  • Seeker: Advanced IIR with AI
  • Fused Navigation Solution: INS + TERCOM + anti-jam GPS
  • Control &planning: Advanced mission planning and C2 systems
  • Two-way long-range data-link: Updates mission on flight & BDA
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