TOW missile hits T-72 at 4.2km away - video

http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=8341 ^

[djone]

"Quite amazing video showing how effective the TOW missile is, notice that it explodes with a proximity fuse over the tank and still totally destroys it. TOW-2B top-down attack variant using explosively formed penetrators. It is supposed to detonate above the tank sending a stream of molten metal down on the target in a similar fashion to the NLAW."

[Chainmail]

Those old things work but you have to be nuts to use them. We used to have the M10 hand-thrown antiarmor grenade in the late '30s but nobody was strong enough to heave the thing any useful distance. A reserve colonel put a rocket motor on the thing and the bazooka was born. Unfortunately, the first pallet of the things for our Soviet "allies" landed in German hands, so we had to face the same kind (but more powerful) type of weapon in German hands.

The standoff antiarmor weapons the Iranians are furnishing are much more effective than anything we have faced before. The press hasn't bothered discussing it and the majority of the American people - except those with family members in the armed forces - aren't interested. The islamic enemy has learned how to kill our troops without risking anything themselves. Until we take the war to the puppet masters we will continue lose our young people to these things.

[OKSooner]

It sounds quick and merciful at least.

[Dan Cooper]

Do you remember the mobility kill of an M1A1 early on in the Iraq war? Did anyone ever figure that out?

Here is the only article I could find:

'Something' Felled An Abrams Tank In Iraq - But What?

[Chainmail]

I do. It turned out to be an RPG-7V. It has a tandem warhead - the precursor cut a hole through the outer layer and the main warhead got through to the engine.

[Dan Cooper]

Lucky more those didn't show up.
A video of the dual charge effect, at around 1:00min.

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