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Originally Posted by starsiege
why are they doing this? seriously?
the Hellfire(the IR and the laser/Radar guided) have much more range and armour penetration capabilities. Also they are more menuverable and provile lock-on-before launch and lock-on-after launch capabilities.
why do they have to make it wireless when they have the hellfire(and hellfire2)?
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An infantryman(or more correctly an infantry team) cannot carry a Hellfire.
The next phase the Army is working on is the TOW HATM(pretty sure that's the acronym, it fell under the CKEM program)....A hypervelocity kinetic energy TOW with a maximum flight speed of Mach 6.6 and IIRC reverse compatibility with existing TOW launch systems.
Obviously that missile will have total overmatch capability vs any concieveable conventionally armored target.
Also, modern sheathed pulsed data-links are reportedly extremely hard to jam. That's probably what this TOW uses.