U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), hold security in a Humvee during an amphibious assault at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., Dec. 14, 2013. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Caleb McDonald/Released)
The American BGM-71 TOW anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) system has finally made an appearance in the Russian special military operation zone in Ukraine.
On January 3, a photo of an M1167 Humvee TOW missile carrier that was captured by Russian troops on Kherson front a while ago surfaced online.
The photo shows the Humvee’s M41 TOW improved target acquisition system (ITAS), which usually includes a forward looking infrared sight, night vision sight and a laser rangefinder. The system can be also equipped with a position attitude determination subsystem that uses differential GPS tracking to relay precise coordinate data to the operator.
The ITAS can fire different versions of TOW missiles, including the BGM-71E which can penetrate 900 mm of rolled homogeneous armour behind explosive reactive armor and has a range of 3,750 meters, the BGM-71F that has a top-attack warhead and a range of 4,500 meters and the BGM-71E bunker buster with a range of 4,200 meters. Each M1167 vehicle can carry up to six missiles.
TOW missiles are effective. Nevertheless, they are guided via semi-automatic command to line of sight (SACLOS) which make them vulnerable to IR jammers.
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- Click to see full-size image. Via Twitter.
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- Click to see full-size image. Via Twitter.
In August 2022 the United States Department of Defense announced that it would be sending 1,500 TOW ATGMs to Ukraine. At the time, the department didn’t provide any details on the version it will be supplying.
The TOW system will not likely pose a new challenge to the Russian military, which has been dealing with similar and even more advanced ATGMs since the start of the special operation in Ukraine. The U.S. decision to supply Kiev forces with these missiles was likely the result of shortage in more advanced systems, like the FGM-148 Javelin.
what a nice target, a truly sitting duck. 300, 30, 3… Boom!
Oh s***t! The Afghanistan and Syria game changer weapon arrives in UkroNATOstan. Urkorobot have run out of Javelins!
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Let’s see them in action against T-14 Armata, T-90s etc.
Too little, waaay too late.
What i have never understood is how all these weapons have even got into Ukraine never mind at the battle front,all the railways and airports should have been trashed a long time ago,many of them are flown in from Ramstein,they can’t be flown in if there is no airport.
Some people keep saying things will get better for Russia if it escalates. That would play right into America’s hand. More weapons and mercs will flow to Ukraine and many more Russian troops will die
@The Objective
Very true what you state.
And now the Putin medias desperately try (using this worthless news of some tow-howitzers hit, or an empty ukr ice stadium hit or burning ukr bakhmut positions stories etc) to deflect public attention away from the real news, which is the full-hit, and total destruction of the school-building in Makiivka, where a giant number of freshly mobilized russian troops was housed.
The official russian Kremlin Propaganda just admits lousy 63 russian soldiers killed, but lots of witnesses and even higher ranking current and ex-ru officiers have already admitted that the real number of killed russian troops in this perfect attack goes into the HUNDREDS. One of them, who stated this, is the famous and well known Igor Girkin.
Inside the building were more than 600 russian troops stationed officially, with much more russians from other detachments in addition attending the “party” as well. To this add the pure madness that according to several sources large amount of ammunition were stored eigher directly inside the building too, or at least directly beside the building. Result was that when the building was hit by the HIMARS missiles, everything erupted in explosion, and not much left of the stationed russian troops.
Ukraine says at least 400 russian troops killed. The ex-russian officiers Igor Girkin stated that the death-count of killed russian troops sadly is in the HUNDREDS. So it is not clear if 200 or even 400 russian troops got killed, but at least it is much more than the Kremlin admitted 63.
So we now know that this attack was one of the most deadly against the russian invader forces since the beginning of this whole war in Feb. 2022. And of course Putin and his media-thugs desperatly try to downplay the size of this catastrophe as far as possible. And if the current trumped up news of a destroyed empty ukraine ice station can compensate for the deaths of up to 400 russian troops is, at least, highly questionable.
I see the Ukretard talking point is “up to 400 Russian troops”. Lots of lee-way there for Ukretard math. Meanwhile, what’s the total number of Ukrainian KIA since the start of the ethnic cleansing ATO, Ihor?
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TOW stands for Tube-launched Optically Wire-guided. Are these still wire guided or beam riding? Wire guided missiles can’t be jammed but they have limitations. It’s 50 year old technology but still effective.
THey can be jammed with laser. There are laser emitters to blind optical systems (and the operator)
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Kremlin crying the naughty Americans did it again.
Nancy Polosi’s farewell gift to Ukraine as she leaves Speaker of dee House.
Left over junk the US didn’t send to Iran during the Iran/ Iraq war, this stuff is old!
You heard Putin’s New Year’s speech. Russia will be in FULL WAR MODE during 2023.
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Almost 2 decades too late . This should have started in 2004
I upvoted you but then realized that back then Russia was still very weak economically.
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This would be another big mistake by Putin. I mean, he can’t afford to deplete Russia’s fighting strength on Ukraine. Isn’t it quite clear that the U.S. is fighting Russia via Ukraine? America is leading from behind otherwise the war would have ended long ago. I don’t think Putin can afford an escalation. It will likely trigger a revolt against him in Russia. The U.S. will sharply increase weapons and mercenary supplies to Ukraine to match Russia’s escalation. They neight want Ukraine nor Russia to win. They just want the war to continue bleeding Russia at the expense of Ukrainian and Russian lives. This weakens a major U.S. competitor.
The real escalation would be for Russia to hit NATO bases supplying Ukraine. Turkey won’t join the fight.
Russians getting barbecued everywhere and everyday 😆😆😆
Eight years of the ethnic cleansing ATO by the armed forces of the failed Ukrainian CIA project. How many Ukrainian KIA as ATO approaches a decade of bringing kooky Banderite psychosis to Donbas?
So more clearing of the back catalogue, then?
old but effective