Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) have lately evolved as a prominent scenario for modern infantry assault combat.

Modern infantry assault troops, when operating in urban areas, often require breaching an entry into buildings; tasks which are critical to the overall mission. In a MOUT scenario, this is a high-risk situation in which the defenders hold almost all the cards.

Typically, there is no intelligence available to the attacking troops; the success of the mission relies on the marginal advantages which may be created by the attackers, such as firepower, and exact timing.

There are two tactical options for breaking-in: breaching of a door or window, or breaking through a wall by creating a man-size hole.

When breaching through doors, two key aspects were compromised up until now by the attacking forces: the element of surprise and the level of risk to those forces. The best solution available up until now was the use of explosives to breach doors, which was a much shorter and intense solution than mechanical breaching, but still required the breaching team to reach the target door and risk themselves.

In anti-terrorist special operations such as the attempted release of hostages, these circumstances are greatly intensified, and an additional operational requirement arises: the hostages which are entrapped in the building must not be harmed.

The Simon rifle-launched grenade has dramatically changed the balance between the attackers and the defenders by eliminating or greatly reducing the risk levels to the assault troops.

The SIMON is a stand-off weapon, fired from 15-30 meters, while maintaining a full surprise effect. SIMON poses no risk of collateral damage, neither to hostages, nor to the assault troops.

SIMON is specially adapted to surprise stand-off breaching of steel or wooden doors.