The eyes does affect older TOW variants.
thats not how it works
what do you mean?? those eyes disrupt the laser seeker on the missile that is fired towards the tank…
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Finally i found a way to fit the video in here
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TOW-2B appears to be excessively weakened, causing it to likely fail to penetrate the tops of most Russian vehicles and occasionally fail to penetrate other NATO vehicles.
It can only deal with some light armored vehicles
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The missile has been stealth nerfed in to the ground…Just did a test drive and yeah - total bs even against the early T-64
pretty bs, but it looks like a heat problem in general. you wont knock the crew out if your heat penetrator is like 2m away from the crew. Combine this with theangle and you have the tow2b.
A missile with quite a weak postpen but can hit enemies behind cover.
This is why I don’t use the Tow-2B and instead use the Tow-2A for the Wiesal 1A2. Better to just hit them straight. If they’re behind a hill. Just loft it up and come back down.
The destroyed tank will generate a range of 5 to 10 meters to prematurely detonate TO-2B, making it almost impossible for him to use
That is not how any of this works. Do you think I-TOW is not on a wire? Do you think SHTORA does not affect I-TOW?
The 2B is extremely nerfed, only Russian vehicles are allowed to have useful agm
chill its not hard to see why someone would assume that.
i can only speak for the american tow missile
what nation has laser guided tow on ground tanks
both TOW and I-TOW are 1. Wire guided and 2. Completely countered by SHTORA because wire guided does not mean immune to jamming.
Early TOW (including I-TOW) guides the missile by watching the IR beacon at the back of the missile. The gunner keeps the crosshair on the target, and the launcher steers the missile based on where it sees the missile.
Shtora exploits this by blasting a strong IR light toward the launcher, acting like a flashlight. The launcher cannot see the tiny missile IR beacon, which is why the missile flies in a random direction.
TOW-2 and other modern ATGM changed this. The missile now looks back at the launcher, and is the one to send its position to the launcher instead of the launcher having to determine it. The launcher then sends steering commands through the wire. The launcher no longer needs to visually track the missile itself.
That’s why Shtora and similar jammer have been for the most part useless for the past 30 years. It’s very easy to counter them with the appropriate tech.
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No they cant jam them cause of the wire lol
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yea early version could be affected
but was patched fast so it does not matter
Refer to my post as to why missiles with wires can be jammed. The wire is just there to transmit information from launcher to missile/missile to launcher. If the launcher can’t see the IR strobe at the back of the missile, then the launcher isn’t capable of sending accurate guidance, wire or not.
So while it’s not a literal jamming of the guidance signal going through the wire, it’s still a jamming of the guidance system.
You have no idea what you’re talking about
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