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Article: Venerable Army TOW Missile Still Lethally Effective.(Optically tracked, wire-guided )
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- February 13, 2004
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By Ann Roosevelt
The Army's 1960s-era Tube-Launched Optically tracked, wire-guided (TOW) missile, built by Raytheon [RTN], is still going strong and providing needed lethality to soldiers in Iraq, Army officials said.
"The TOW system was used extensive during Operation Iraqi Freedom," said Col. Lloyd McDaniels, project manager close combat weapon systems in the Program Executive Office Tactical Missiles, in a telephone interview with Defense Daily yesterday. "We, the Department of Defense, fired approximately 1,000 missiles in that conflict, and we're still using the system today."
Since the anti-tank missile's first engineering manufacturing ...