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To: huldah1776
If one TOW didn't work? just hit it with a couple more.

Quantity has a certain Quality of its own, the Russians of All People should understand that.

14 posted on 02/28/2016 5:44:43 AM PST by KC_Lion (I think it is obvious, feminism stops where Islam begins.)
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To: KC_Lion

“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 ...


25 posted on 02/28/2016 6:20:26 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: KC_Lion
If one TOW didn't work? just hit it with a couple more. Quantity has a certain Quality of its own, the Russians of All People should understand that.

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....

37 posted on 03/02/2016 8:31:49 AM PST by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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