Carrying this over from a previous thread, regarding the new Norwegian TV documentary about the Mahmoud Masharawi killing:

re: #214 Killgore Trout

at 22:00 they show scenes from the roof. They seem to still be claiming that is was a missile strike from a drone. The damage still looks like it’s from a mortar (could be Israeli or hamas) or a Qassan rocket. What’s the Spike thing they are talking about? Is that a weapon system?

The English-speaking man from so-called “Human Rights Watch” speculates that the damage was caused by a “Gil” or “Spike” missile fired from a Heron drone, but says he hasn’t reached a firm conclusion yet. Later scenes in the documentary appear to address the source of the explosion in great detail, showing Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse reviewing videotapes of other casualties, and even studying samples under in a laboratory under some sort of fume hood.

There is some discussion of the Spike missile in this Wikipedia site:

Spike-MR (also know as Gil) is the medium range version. Its range is 200 - 2,500 meters and is used by infantry and special forces. The weight of the missile is 13.5 kg, and the canister itself weighs 13 kg. The launcher, battery, tripod and the launcher are also used by other land-based versions of the Spike missile family, each weighing 13 kg, 1 kg, 3 kg, and 9 kg respectively.

It looks like there Gil is primarily a land-based anti-tank missile, which is the IDF’s primary anti-tank weapon. There is more here. The Human Rights Watch guy collects little square pieces of shrapnel and says they were identical to pieces found at other “targeted killings.” But wouldn’t a HEAT warhead produce little shrapnel, coming not from the missile itself, but from whatever it blew up? I don’t know about this stuff, so I’m asking.

I can’t find any mention of an air-launched version of the Gil, but I did find this from 2003.