Re: [DS] Why tank destroyers?

At 9:25 PM -0400 9/5/01, Z. Lakel wrote:
>Don said:
>
>>  > Have you seen the old Twilight 2000 US Army Vehicle Guide?
>>  In it they had a M920 a Hellfire AT HAMMER HEAD Launcher
>>  on a Bradley. I think the only thing stopping this one is the price
>>  tag, DOD is squeamish about giving a million bucks a shot to a
>>  E-2 to play with ...)
>
>Just wondering, but what exactly is the "M920 Hellfire AT Hammer Head"
>mentioned above?

A theoretical arrangement of a launcher for Hellfire missiles. If you 
look at a photo of a M901 ITV 
(http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m901.htm), that funny 
looking part on top is capable of firing 2 TOW missiles. The Hellfire 
idea is to mount a longer ranged missile on a small package. Tow goes 
for about 4 klicks, Hellfire will go out to about 8. Well beyond 
visual so you're going to be handing the missile off to someone else 
to get it to land at that range on   a real target.

Hellfire
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/agm-114.htm

TOW
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/tow.htm

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