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The anti tank guided missile designers of 50+ years ago would find this rather obvious.
by fsagx 2y ago
The anti tank guided missile designers of 50+ years ago would find this rather obvious.
- GartzenDeHaes 2y agoI think older TOW, AT-2, and other such missiles used wires rather than fiber optics. Fiber optics is thinner, which would give it a much longer range presumably.
- Zamiel_Snawley 2y agoI was just about to say the same thing, TOW missiles are still in service.
- lupusreal 2y agoI think all the fiber/wire controlled TOWs are retired from US service though? The new ones are all wireless AFAIK.
- romwell 2y agoThe more relevant part is that Ukraine is using them right now, and that has been specifically mentioned in the article.
- rock_artist 2y agoFrom my understanding this technology is still actively used by Spike [1] based missiles and their counterfeit ones by Iran used by its allies. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_(missile) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_(missile)
- Muromec 2y agoThat's because US military doesn't optimize for cost and can have those things costing in the area of 250 per shot. Ukrainian military does optimize for cost and gets 10 of fly by wire Stugna's for this money.
- romwell 2y ago>The anti tank guided missile designers of 50+ years ago would find this rather obvious. TOW missiles are specifically mentioned in the article as an example of this technology being in active use for decades (and particularly, right now in Ukraine)
- Muromec 2y agoUkrainian Stugna-P is fly by wire and was actively used in 2022.
- morkalork 2y agoStugna is laser guided, no?
- H8crilA 2y agoYeah, a beam-rider, doesn't have a fiber optic cable like the TOW. There was some cool footage early on in the war where a skilled Ukrainian Stugna-P operator pointed the beam just off of an enemy helicopter (or maybe some armored vehicle, but I think it was a helicopter), then corrected to the target at the last moment. This gave as little warning as possible to the crew of the helicopter via their illumination sensors. Very skilful.
- AmVess 2y agoTOW missiles are a LOT faster than a drone and fired a LOT father away.