From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth) |
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Subject: | [OT] Re: Great Dragon |
Date: | Fri Aug 9 10:40:01 2002 |
> The M72 L.A.W. "unfolds" about 2/3 its original length from each end,
> some to funnel the backblast, some to provide a degree of guidance to the
> rocket.
This is only done for these kinds of weapons; few, if any, ATGMs use a
similar arrangement, and in fact many LAWs don't, either.
> so the T.O.W.s on a Huey Cobra are in tubes only a couple of
> inches longer than the rocket. With ground based systems there's a lot
> less space for the rocket to drop in, you really don't want it hitting
> the deck only meters ahead of you if you can help it, allowing the rocket
> to accelerate while still inside the launch tube is one form of counter
> to this.
You would have a point, were it not for vehicles such as M2/M3 Bradleys,
M901 ITVs (and others with the Emmerson TOW turret, like LAV-TOWs and
YPR-PRATs), M113 TUAs, etc. All these have no launch tube beyond the
missile stowage cannister, but can fire the missiles just fine.
And, like I said yesterday, no other missile launcher I'm aware of uses a
launch tube except for the transport cannister the missile is shipped in.
In fact, some older types use a launch rail shorter than the missile (like
the 9M114) or even a rocket booster lifting the weapon up into the air
directly from the ground (as in the 1960s BO810 Cobra).
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