TOW Missile & How BGM-71 TOW Anti-Tank Guided Missiles Work?

How tow anti-tank missiles work | how anti-armor missile work | wire guided missile how it works | First produced in 1970, TOW is one of the most widely used anti-tank guided missiles. The TOW anti-tank guided missile is still deadly after nearly 50 years of service where it proved itself as a very effective weapon. The TOW anti-tank missiles were responsible for many destroyed tanks, mostly Russian-made.

The TOW missiles are typically used by various companies for heavy anti-armor work but still the TOW is able to knock-out even the most protected tanks. The weapon is used in anti-armor, anti-bunker, anti-fortification and anti-amphibious landing roles.

How TOW anti-tank missiles - Anti-Armor Missile Work

In its basic infantry form, the system breaks down into a number of modules: a folding tripod mount, a launch tube (into the rear of which encased missiles are inserted), a mandatory daysight tracker unit, which can be augmented with an optional AN/TAS-4 or AN/TAS-4/A gas-cooled night sight (or an all-in-one tracker unit on the M41 ITAS version), and a traversing unit, which mounts onto the tripod and carries the launch tube and sight, that also includes the weapon's trigger and the bridging clamp, which mates with the missile's umbilical data connector. In addition to this main assembly, there is a separate FIRE CONTROL SYSTEM (FCS) module, which performs all guidance calculations, and a battery pack to power the system. These two modules link to each other, with the FCS then linked to the daysight with a cable.

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[danny]

I was one of the persons who was required to do maintenance on these systems, they are fascinating pieces of work. It is basically a giant computer that guides the missile... one system alone is worth about a million, and each round costs around $70k.. also TOW stands for Tube launched Optically tracked Wire Guided system. Its crazy cause I always used to walk around the training areas and notice a bunch of wires laying around and never understood what they were for.. then you realize they are the wires that were attached to the Missiles, you can see them clear as day in the video here.

[JohnnyC]

06:50 900mm of armor? Holy shit, that is over 35 inches of armor. DAMN!

[qstibhe]

How does the TOW missile work?? Pretty frickin' good! I spent 7 years as an 0352 and that thing NEVER let me down. The shockwave propagates at 56 THOUSAND feet per second, enough to cut a hole thru nearly a meter of rolled homogeneous armor plate.

[philipcooper]

The javelin is fast to put into action and is portable by a single soldier, and fit what Ukraine needed at the time, I heard that the T.O.W. being wired cannot be jammed like weapons receiving digital signals, and the shape charge emits a red hot jet of plasma like no other when it hits, great range and power

[ColdWarVet]

633mm = 2+ feet, 900mm = about 3 feet. WOW! But that whole unit is so big & heavy, after the 1st shot the remaining tanks are gonna return the favor, best get ready to move fast or reload faster!

[hanrymark]

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[anyname]

Where the Ukrainian asked the Russian tanker can I tow you back to Russia, I thought of this.

[loubarrios]

Best advice I got from my instructors at Fort Benning in 1979 was track the target not the missle which could easily happen.

[Ravenousjoe]

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.
In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.
The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

[lance_the_avocado]

I like how one of the vids you guys used was when a bird got hit by the missile lmao

[thomasfx]

Does it seem to anyone else that it’s painfully slow to re-position all this gear, meanwhile Charlie is shooing at you?

[pop-up]

I reckon I would be able to hit a heli, all that practice from BF4

[rr]

So after tow being shot, there Will always be wire marks lying all way long from the tow shooter to the target. Am i right?

[margiedamiar]

The tow served the Philippine Army since Oct.2020.

[MESOHIPPUS]

900 mm armor penetration...not bad at all.

[vwfojdi]

The Ukrainian AT missile platform "Stuhna-P" can be operated 50 meters away from the launcher itself, which already makes it much better than the russian kornet.

[budman]

0352 '79-'83. Launched a bunch of these, including Northern Norway at well below zero.

[hunguyen]

Wow so incredible tow tank killing missiles

[paullpjoseph]

27E My MOS
Handheld, Tripod & Bradley Tank trained I Loved Redstone Arsenal

[robzombieshot]

Btw, did you know that the TOW is currently in Ukraine? Just a heads-up if you're interested in an updated video