Posted on 02/28/2016 5:17:18 AM PST by huldah1776
Time for the CIA to get a couple of these tanks back to the US for testing. Money talks.
Ground based TOW might not work too well, that’s why we have Apaches and Cobras lurking in the clouds.
And Warthogs. I don't know how effective the A-10 is against T-90s, but they sure made Swiss cheese out of Saddam's T-72s.
I plan on posting to Trumps facebook that he needs to support bringing back the Warthog. It works.
“If one TOW didn’t work? just hit it with a couple more.”
That’s usually because ATM operators on a modern battlefield against modern tanks have a theoretical lifetime after missile launch in seconds ...
Against an export version built by Saudis - lacks many defenses. Most Saudis in Yemen practice the Iraqi army style fighting - drop and run.
Bailing is standard procedure on older T-72s and T-60s as a hit almost always results in fire and explosion killing crew. Poorly trained crew in any case.
Lived next to a tanker while in Jville, NC. Sweetest smile. I would tease him after their training about having to fix the cracks in the foundation and walls after the place shook all day. Never felt so safe living in an area saturated with the best.
Carl Gustav lol. That’s what all the boys in 2PPCLI used to tell the girls when they asked the boys their names.
Same here cept Squantos Doomavich ! See if auto correct kicks me again....:o)
Yes, being an Army guy, I should never forget the A-10, our best friend from the Air Force. I suspect the A-10 can deal effectively with a T-90. But having a few on hand to test would be the ticket.
I would think that if nothing else, the A-10s could detonate the tanks’ reactive armor, which would then allow a TOW or Hellfire missile to take it out. I know the nose cannon alone made hash out of Saddam’s pussies during Gulf II.
Nothing like a little depleted uranium to start the day....
AKA Charlie gut-ache, from carrying the 40-pound pig. But they were as accurate as a rifle, and if you got a clear shot at the side of a tank, you could pretty much count on a mobility kill, even if it didn't fire up.
Long live the Patricias!
Smack that turret ring! Heh
Just so, but there need to be a couple of TOW mods and variations. A dumb, unguided version [for things like the 101 Airborne's use against forted-up Usay and Qusay Hussein and other urban/woodland close-in fights, especially at night] would come in right handy and save on the longer-ranged guided units. A APERS Canister round could be real handy at times as well.
And a fire-and-forget model would certainly be nice, perhaps augmented by tracker mods and a subcaliber adapter to allow the use of Javelin fire-and-forget missiles from a TOW launcher.
And while we're at it: cutting down on the backblast would be nice. Possibly something like a German Armbrust handheld unguided launcher, essewntially a recoilless but instead of exhausting gasas out the rear instead throws out a counterweight shot of plastic confetti chaff. Might work well with that unguided *urban warfare* dumb round....
That works real well from the sides, less so head on. Nevertheless, on the T-64 in a frontal shot, our aiming point was the driver's face- if his head was outside his hatch- even though a T-62 driver is not centered like an M48/M60, but offset to the gunner's side, as on a Sherman [where the driver is offset on the loader's side]
One of the reasons some tank designers are thinking about a coaxial 25mm or 30mm gun alongside the main gun as a replacement for the usual .30/7,62mm mg or coax .50.
That can leave the possibility of still having a .50 mounted coaxially fixed atop the main gun barrel, as the Israeli Magach nounts do. But interestingly, during WWII, Patton thought a tank needed two coax guns, not just one.
22-23 seconds is terminal flight time, so that'd be a maximum range shot, about 3500-3750 meters, depending on air density, propellant temperature and head-or crosswinds.
FY 2015 unit cost of a TOW 2 missile was $58,908.
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