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The BGM-71 TOW ("Tube-launched, Optically tracked, ... In 2001 and 2002, Raytheon and the U.S. Army worked together on an extended range TOW-2B variant, ...
The BGM-71 TOW is one of two missiles on this list of America’s oldest weapons still in service. ... the Minuteman III, has a range of about 6,000 miles, and the U.S. Air Force maintains an ...
The Toophan (Persian: طوفان "typhoon", rarely Toofan) is an Iranian SACLOS anti-tank guided missile reverse-engineered from the American BGM-71 TOW missile. The Toophan 1, an unlicensed copy of the BGM-71A TOW missile, began mass production in 1988 [1] and the Toophan 2, a BGM-71C ITOW variant, was publicly shown in 2000.
The operator must remain stationary during the missile's flight. The most widely used ATGM of all time, the American BGM-71 TOW, with hundreds of thousands of missiles built, is a second-generation system. [6] Second generation ATGMs are significantly easier to use than first generation systems, and accuracy rates may exceed 90%.
The original iteration of the system comprises launchers allowing for four BGM-71 TOW missiles per aircraft pylon to be carried, and a "Telescopic Sight Unit" (TSU), to allow for targeting and guidance of the missile. The TSU has been upgraded with the LAAT (Laser-Augmented Airborne TOW), a day/night range finder, and C-NITE (Cobra-Night ...
BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile Elevation, main gun +59° −9°, M2 +57° −9°, M2A1 +19.5° −9° Traverse rate 6 seconds/360° Elevation rate, main gun 60°/second Main armament ammo 1500 rounds, 12 TOW or TOW 2, M3A1 Firing rate Single shot, 100, 200 rounds per minute
1.5 Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) 1.6 Ground-Launched Anti-Ship & Anti-Surface Guided Missiles 1.7 Ship-Launched Anti-Ship & Anti-Surface Guided Missiles
The scout platoons are equipped with six M220 TOW-2 anti-armor systems firing the BGM-71 TOW missile backed up by FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missiles; four of the six HMMWVs are also equipped with the Long-Range Advanced Scout Surveillance System. The mortar section consists of two HMMWV-towed 120mm mortars and a fire direction center. [7]