The BGM-71 TOW ("Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided", pronounced /ˈtoʊ/) is an American anti-tank missile. TOW replaced much smaller missiles...
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American BGM-71 TOW missile. The Toophan 1, an unlicensed copy of the BGM-71A TOW missile, began mass production in 1988 and the Toophan 2, a BGM-71C ITOW...
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launch environments BGM-71 TOW missile BGM-109 Tomahawk missile This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title BGM. If an internal link...
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Suhail Muhammad Hamoud (redirect from Abu TOW)
also known as Abu TOW (Arabic: أبو تاو, romanized: ʾAbū Tāw), is a Free Syrian Army rebel famed for his skill in operating the BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile...
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troopers in addition to the regular crew of three, with space for additional BGM-71 TOW missiles. In 2014, the U.S. Army selected BAE Systems' Armored Multi-Purpose...
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anti-tank missile design and it can be considered an equivalent of the US BGM-71 TOW and Franco-German MILAN / Euromissile HOT anti-tank missiles. HJ-8 is...
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Almas-2 Ghaem-114 Ghaem-1 Ghaem-5 Ghaem-9 Akhgar NLOS Spike Orev (upgraded BGM-71 TOW-2) MAPATS LAHAT – fired through smoothbore tank gun tubes of Merkava tanks...
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claimed that Ghorbanifar had given him the idea for diverting profits from BGM-71 TOW and MIM-23 Hawk missile sales to Iran to the Nicaraguan Contras. While...
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develop an air-to-surface missile, to replace the current air-launched BGM-71 TOW, AGM-114 Hellfire, and AGM-65 Maverick missiles. The U.S. Army, Navy,...
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4000+ vehicles in the Royal Moroccan Army, some of them are fitted with BGM-71 TOW ATGM. Moldova – 90 vehicles Mexico – Vehicles sold via the U.S. Foreign...
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defenses (e.g. bunkers) at ranges up to 500 meters. The FGM-148 Javelin and BGM-71 TOW are anti-tank guided missiles; both can utilize top-attack profiles to...
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are HMMWV, M-35/A3, Mk 19 grenade launcher, M141 Bunker Defeat Munition, TOW 2, HELLFIRE 2, AT4, and Barrett M107 .50 Cal. sniper. The US has promised...
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(450 km) — under-development Fatah-IV — (700 km) — under-development BGM-71 TOW — (3.75 km) — (USA) GIDS Baktar-Shikan — (4 km) Kornet-E — (8 km) — (Russia)...
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conflicts thereafter in Africa or in the Middle East. It was replaced by the BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile system in the US Armed Forces. The earlier M27 recoilless...
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top attack include: The Toophan is a reverse engineered clone of the BGM-71 TOW Plunging fire "RBS 56 BILL". robotmuseum.se (in Swedish). Retrieved February...
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(for example, an RPG-7 or M72 LAW is an anti-tank rocket), whereas a BGM-71 TOW or AT-2 Swatter is an anti-tank guided missile. Examples of surface-to-surface...
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launcher, an M2 Browning machine gun, a MILAN anti-tank guided missile, or a BGM-71 TOW anti-tank guided missile launcher. Remote option is usually the CROWS...
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named Tow (film), an upcoming film starring Rose Byrne Tow (fibre), a textiles by-product Tug of war, a sport BGM-71 TOW, an anti-tank missile tow, the...
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Industries as a possible successor to United States' wire-guided missile, BGM-71 TOW. The MAPATS is sometimes nicknamed Hutra (in Hebrew: חוטרא) – an Aramaic...
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center of the line-of-sight. Common examples of these weapons include the BGM-71 TOW wire-guided anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) and the Rapier radio-command...
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10 (or MGM-21A). It was designed to be an interim weapon, used as the BGM-71 TOW was being developed. The first missiles were deployed in 1963, that year...
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Kingdom. 1963 9M14 Malyutka enters service in the Soviet Union. 1970 BGM-71 TOW enters service with the US Army. 1972 MILAN is accepted for service with...
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for long fuselage UH-1s (UH-1D/H/N). XM26 With the development of the BGM-71 TOW missile Hughes had been given the contract to develop a launching system...
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M249 SAW, M240, MK 19, and M2 machine guns can be mounted on vehicles. BGM-71 TOW mounted on Humvee and JLTV variants, as well as M2 and M3 Bradley The...
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Turkey. The group was formed from five units, some of which received BGM-71 TOW missiles from the United States. In July 2016 the al-Nusra Front raided...
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device and discarded after one use. Examples include, Bofors Bantam, BGM-71 TOW, 9M113 Konkurs, Panzerfaust 3, 9M133 Kornet, etc. Portable anti-tank systems...
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ground attack, which they thwarted before being downed by a U.S.-made BGM-71 TOW missile. However independent experts said the downed helicopter was a...
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defense surface-to-air missile (Israel-India) BGM-34 Firebee BGM-71 TOW BGM-75 AICBM BGM-109 Tomahawk BGM-110 Baktar-Shikan (Pakistani Anti-tank Guided...
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PT-76 (section First combat use of the TOW missile)
being the first victim of the BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile. On April 24, 1972, the US special experimental 1st Combat Aerial TOW Team arrived in South Vietnam...
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was closed. M8 TOW tank destroyer M8 upgraded by the US company Napco. The main gun was replaced by a .50-inch machine gun and a BGM-71 TOW launcher was...
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