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The BGM-71 TOW ("Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided", pronounced / ˈ t oʊ /) [9] is an American anti-tank missile. TOW replaced much smaller missiles like the SS.10 and ENTAC , offering roughly twice the effective range, a more powerful warhead, and a greatly improved semi-automatic command to line of sight (SACLOS) that could also ...
A TOW missile being fired from an M1134 ATGM vehicle, showing the two guidance wires (the wavy lines between the missile and the launcher). A wire-guided missile is a missile that is guided by signals sent to it via thin wires connected between the missile and its guidance mechanism, which is located somewhere near the launch site.
With wire-and radio-guided SACLOS, the sighting device can calculate the angular difference in direction from the missile position to the target location. It can then give electronic instructions to the missile that correct its flight path so it is flying along a straight line from the sighting device to the target.
Only seven of the 17 TOW missiles fired hit their targets during this week's drills, which were focused on training for a potential invasion by China.
The missiles are among the most effective and popular anti-tank weapons in the world and a key component in what so ... wire-guided missiles known as TOW 2A missiles mounted on M1167 Humvees at ...
TOW originally stood for "Television Over Wire." If that's in reference to the TOW missile then I don't understand why that would be the case. There's no "television" involved on any level. Thatguy96 13:24, 5 August 2006 (UTC) TOW is Tube-launched Optically tracked Wire Command-Link Guided Missile, not "Wire Guided". The quote from the ...
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 tracker is able to keep track of the target even though the seeker's point of view can change radically in the course of flight. The missile is equipped with four movable tail fins and eight fixed wings at mid-body. To guide the missile, the tracker locates the target in the current frame and compares this position with the aim point.