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If the TOW is wire guided, how would the IR/laser noise affect its guidance?

>>33259985
The launcher tracks a missile via an IR beacon in it's tail, the aps confuses the launcher.

>>33259734
No.Attack and countermeasures always trade off in terms of which defeats the other.

Until someone develops a 100% effective way of negating a SACLOS missile, they're not going anywhere.

>>33259985
www.google.com

>>33259990
Right oh. So theoretically, a MCLOS missile would better against these seeing as the launcher has no bearing upon the missile beyond the operator's skill?

Fagots are always screwed.

>>33260010
Well yes but there's a reason why practically no one uses MCLOS guidance anymore, why bother when SACLOS is so much easier to use. And rebel groups like those in Syria aren't going to have the missiles to spare to practice.

>>33260012
kek

Are US TOWs vulnerable?

I remember reading the ones sent to the ME have an older guidance system.

>>33260290
Depends. I think the newer ones use coded infrared to prevent countermeasures.

>>33259734
No real evidence this works or has even been deployed beyond SAA propaganda. The article itself mainly goes into how the system is given publicity to raise morale among SAA troops because their armor losses have been so bad. Vids of SAA tanks bring destroyed by TOWs are regularly churning out

Until we get some footage of it working I'll stay skeptical given all the BS SAA propaganda in the past.

>>33260491
Yep, I was right: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/23-34/Ch1.htm

>The TOW 2 overcomes these problems by having the MGS send a signal to the missile that controls the frequency at which the xenon beacon is operating. The MGS varies this pattern randomly, speeding it up and slowing it down in no apparent pattern. The MGS is always able to distinguish its missile from other missiles because no two missiles will be operating on the same frequency at the same time. For the same reason, the enemy cannot jam the system.

There's also a second beacon to prevent countermeasures:

>The second radiator is called the thermal beacon and provides link compatibility with the electro-optical infrared nightsight, which is part of the TOW 2 launcher system.

So the TOWs in Syria are either old or the article is pure propaganda.

>>33260583
TOW 2 was introduced in the 80's, so any TOW or ITOW missiles would be very old.