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To: Slings and Arrows
That's what they said about the Sheridan. Mostly a light armored Cavalry vehicle not really for Armor units. It was also swimmable. Main gun was the Shillelagh TOW missile. About seventeen tons, it had a high profile.
17 posted on 10/17/2013 12:16:48 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

How did it perform?


19 posted on 10/17/2013 12:59:11 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

>>Main gun was the Shillelagh TOW missile.

Shillelagh and TOW missiles were very different animals. Shillelagh used an infrared link back to the launch optics, while TOW uses wires (Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided).

TOW was a much more successful system than Shillelagh. The infrared command link of Shillelagh was high among its many problems.


31 posted on 10/17/2013 5:34:16 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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