Luz (missile)

Luz was the first missile built in Israel, developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems in the late 1950s and early 1960s using knowledge drawn from the French MD-620 missile, and originally intended as a surface-to-surface, air-to-ground and anti-ship weapon, though only the surface-to-surface and air-to-ground variants were actually developed. About 3 meters long with a range of roughly 27 kilometers, it was launched two at a time from a ground vehicle and guided by an operator using a joystick and an electro-optical guidance system. It never became fully operational: in 1962 Israel dropped the missile in favor of artillery on cost-benefit grounds, and it never saw combat use. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/