Comments on: Stryker Firing a TOW

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:13:47 +0000

the greatest anti-tank weapon yet. the first variants made in during vietnam, now they have a missile that will travel 4200 meters!! Not even anti-aircraft platforms fire that far

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:15:04 +0000

If it ain’t broke…

By: 11Bravo

11Bravo — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:16:24 +0000

The thing is reliable because those wires form a secure communication link that is not susceptible to jamming and other countermeasures, however, the gunner does have to track the target for the entire flight.

By: jaymaster

jaymaster — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:33:24 +0000

Wow, that’s a blast from the past!

That’s a great picture, because you can see the control wires spooling out of the back of the missile.

I had an engineering job about 20 years ago where I worked on improving the machines that wound the spools for those wires.

That was around Dessert Storm. Hard to believe that was so long ago….But damn, that was a fun job.

It was ancient technology even back then. But it still seemed a bit unbelievable that you could control a missile with wires that follow it everywhere it goes.

But you can! And I’m sure it still works.

By: Hawk

Hawk — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:07:14 +0000

They work great against insurgents & IED teams.

From 3 clicks away, you put a missile on a couple of IED emplacers and they turn to goo before they know the missile is inbound.

By: GeekLethal

GeekLethal — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:32:20 +0000

I didn’t know TOWs were even still fielded.

Googling…

…

Huh, and the wiki sez it’s the most common ATGM in the world. Now how about that?