U.S. Soldiers Train With the BGM-71 TOW Missile System

U.S. Soldiers train with the TOW missile system in order to validate operational readiness utilizing anti-armor weapons systems.
The BGM-71 TOW is an American anti-tank missile. TOW replaced much smaller missiles like the SS.10 and ENTAC, offering roughly twice the effective range, a more powerful warhead, and a greatly improved semi-automatic guidance system that could also be equipped with infrared cameras for night time use.
First produced in 1970, the TOW is one of the most widely used anti-tank guided missiles. It can be found in a wide variety of manually carried and vehicle mounted forms, as well as widespread use on helicopters. Originally designed by Hughes Aircraft in the 1960s, the weapon is currently produced by Raytheon.
Video Credits: U.S. Army | United States Department of Defense
Thumbnail Credit: U.S. Army photo by SGT Amber Robinson
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0:51 Crazy how fast and agile that missile is. I didn't know it was actually attached to the launcher via a wire until I was a bit older, never would have guessed.

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Range control has a special reel to bring that wire back in, pain in the 4th point of contact.

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I used to make that wire. Takes almost 5 days to get it from high carbon rod to final product. It's a 10th the thickness of a human hair but you can't break it with your fingers - as a lot of cuts on my hands could testify. About 6 miles of it fits on a spool about the size of a can of peanuts.

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@@ly776 That’s insane

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@@ly776 Im guessing there is another wire inside of wire at 1:21 because that seems quite thick?

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I was a TOW gunner from 97'-01'. The sights definitely look like they've had an upgrade! nice!!

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I'd never wanna be driving around in a tank these days they make too much shit to kill em.

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The TOW looks so cool flying out of the launch tube with its twin exhaust

[@chrisnizer5702]

TNT expands at around 2,000 fps, C-4 22, 000 fps, TOW warhead (Monroe effect/shaped charge) more than 50,000 fps. Enough to punch through nearly one full meter of rolled homogeneous armor (900mm).

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I use to be a 11 H back in the 90’s and the new system look as cumbersome as the one I used.

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Wow...loved it

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missile back wire is so long,amazing.

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I was a M67 90mm Reoilless & M47 Dragon Gunner in the late 80's. I would loved to have had that Javelin!!!

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The Javelin just doesn’t have the range of the TOW.

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I was a gunner on a 106 recoiless rifle that was replaced by the tow 2/504th 82nd 71-74

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Extremely accurate, deadly and fairly easy to learn to be effective in maintaining an deployment. But draw back is it wire optics control to the target. Meaning operators have to stay engaged and guiding the TOW to its targets. Puts moments exposing the origin of cover and potential counter attack is possible.

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Got to look through the sighting system one time those things are nice!!!💯💥

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Yeah, optics and FC systems are something I was ALWAYS curious about, really wanna see a BGM sight system

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This gave “on the way” a whole new meaning

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Tow and javelin, awesome

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Launch and forget

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My favourite weapon in Squad game.

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I use to make the gyro rotors for this missle.

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Really, if so that's is one hell of a job my friend

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that is so cool i hope those soldier have hearing protection lol

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@mdowning77 The gyro is a device that includes a spinning disc that is used in keeping the missle stable in flight.. The gyro motor is used to spin the disc up to high speeds before the missle is launched..

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As a 19 Kilo, I'm waiting to hear the command "UUUPPP!" :(

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0:50 awesome...!!!

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I wonder what happens to the wires? do they get picked up? or are the ranges littered with wires everywhere? Amazing piece of kit

[@PeteHemdem]

The wires are pretty thin, like 28 gauge. Copper wire will corrode over time in the elements. But dead tanks would leave much more of a mess!

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The wires are strong enough to cause severe bodily harm if they are left hanging across any access road or trails. In Camp Grayling civilians have access to certain roads throughout the area.

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The new Tows no longer have wire guidance

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Expensive day at the range.

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Absolutely zero recoil that's insane!!!

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The blast goes out the back of the launch tube. But the whip antenna sure gets the blast.

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It's a missile, not a gun.

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Tow missiles need a bit of time for being fired, i cant remember why

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@@curdledstraw227 gyro has to spin up and thermal battery has to heat up

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What are these thin lines after the rocket?

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Mr. Afgahn to guide the rocket, its wired, they had that since dessert storm destroying Iraqi tanks

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aohK euqsarraT I think it's even longer.

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TOW has been around since Vietnam.

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@aohK 100 meters is just about a football field, 109 yards roughly.

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aohK euqsarraT - They are thin and have an effective range of 4.5 km or about 2.4 miles.

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I need this weapon laser mesarure distance for groups attack. Do you know something?

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Just got done with AIT as a 94A, I repair these bad boys

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No mention about what TOW stands for. Targeting On Wire is what it is. The missile is steered through flight by a pair of wires that go back to the launcher tube, which is connected to the targeting screen. That way it can't be jammed by radio waves.

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Tubular Launched, Optically sighted, Wire guided. TOW. Can follow a moving Target and hit as long as the wires touch nothing in between.

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Mark Daniel , thank you sir, but you left out missile in the end! Top gun out of 150 men shooting this weapon at Ft.Hood, Tx, back in 1990!

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Ground mount pedestal on M151 and to the M901 way back in the early 80s

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this is the only time ive seen this thing shot without a snackbar festival after the rocket hit!

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My father said they used to drink beer through the barrel of their first shot. It was a pressure fill-up he said ^^

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What is the pre-launch noise?

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What’s the pop just before the launch?

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So what's happening with the first little pop before the missile actually fires?

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This isn't a fire & forget? Or do you have to keep the sights trained on the target to guide the missle? How does this perform with moving targets?

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You can see cloaked ET Predator with that ?

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Why it has wire? Arent laser of radio guidance better?

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So how is this missle differ from the one used by the terrorist? This missles travels straight while those are used by terrorist travels in circular pattern towards target?

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This is an anti-tank missile. The TOW 2B (when I served) had a range of 3000 meters. You have to keep the cross hairs on the Target to hit it. The missile is guided by the two thin copper wires that are attached to the missile system. This anti-tank system is old technology but is still useful. I'm not familiar with what weapon you are referring to used by the terrorists.

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Seems like they'd be easy to shoot down going so slowly. Probably not much developed for intercept of slower ground misses though I'd guess?

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Dangerous than a tank...

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So after the missiles leaves the tube, it's being guided until detonation? But it's a hard wired connection?

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The Gunner has to keep the cross hairs on the Target. The system has a missile guidense set which relays info from the sight to the missile by the thin copper wires. At Max range of 3600 meters it takes roughly 14 seconds to reach it's target.

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Tows on Humvees? I thought they use em on MRAPS? Or are these only for practicing purposes?

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Please someone to explain to me what those two lines are that come out of the cannon after each shot

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They're the wires that control the missile.

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We used tha Dragon in 1988. Still using?

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Dud at 2:15. Broken leads resulting in premature detonation.

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9:00 TOW-2B Aero with radio link?

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What is the thing about the sights.I know the tows in Syria don't have that part

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Who gets to go out there and clean up all those wires spread all across the firing range after all of this?

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What happens whit the wires after the missile hits?

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what happens to the wire once the missile gets the target?

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heavy, non-maneuvering during combat.

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I control my rc planes like these guys control their TOW missiles. ...... in flight for not even 5 seconds and gets destroyed.

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why does the warhead exsplode ovver the tank is it a shaped charge of somekind

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Why does TOW missiles have a disposable launcher kind of thing? For a shoulder fired, infantry weapon, a disposable launcher makes sense they are much lighter than reusable ones, but for an emplaced/vehicle mounted weapon, that doesn’t make any sense(to the best of my knowledge), since it would probably be more efficient to have an expensive, well made barrel and individual rockets since you could carry far more ammunition thanks to having to transport only the rockets and not half of the gun. What am I missing here?

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The launchers aren't disposable. The rounds are in canisters.

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silly question but what happens to all the wire from all the tow weapons fired? there must be tons of that shit laying all over

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I wonder why the TOW needs 2 wires when every other wire guided ATGM makes due with 1?

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