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Old 10-12-2006, 12:18 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by M21Sniper View Post
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.
i thought the JAVELIN messile was the newer manportable anti tank missile for the american infantry. hmnnn strange!
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