Joint Forces Journal

VOL. 26 - NO. 12
APR 11 - 18, 2021

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Army Wants to Replace the Cold War-Era TOW Missile with a New Longer-Range Tank Killer

U.S. Army maneuver officials at Fort Benning, Georgia, want to replace the venerable tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire-guided, or TOW, missile with an advanced projectile that can kill enemy tanks at more than twice the range. The Army fielded the first TOW missile system in 1970. It was initially wire-guided, so soldiers had to remain stationary and vulnerable to the enemy as the missile tracked to the target. The current TOW, which has a range of about 3,750 meters, has a fire-and-forget operation. The... more


		APRIL 12, 2021


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