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To: ChadGore

It is clearly a SMAW. See post above for details. The SMAW is an Israeli-developed weapon used by the Marine Corps. It has a launcher unit (with a built-in spotting rifle and optical sight)and various self-contained projectiles that lock onto the rear of the launcher unit. (That's the AT-4 looking portion of the picture that is causing some confusion).

The Marine Corps has a replacement program for the SMAW (imaginatively called FOTS - Follow On To SMAW) that, if successful, will provide a fire from enclosure (FFE) capability and provide a thermobaric projectile (blast overpressure like FAE).


22 posted on 12/23/2004 6:36:33 AM PST by Captain Rhino ("If you will just abandon logic, these things will make a lot more sense to you!")
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To: Captain Rhino

Is it reloadable, like an RPG or a self-contained, disposable tube device?


24 posted on 12/23/2004 6:40:08 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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