TOW-2B is completely incorrect

How the 2B currently works is as a single HEAT warhead with about 100mm of penetration, which is completely inaccurate when compared to reality, I have 3 key points on how it can be changed for the better.

1st: The 2B is not a HEAT warhead, it is an explosively formed penetrator (EFP)(https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA405672.pdf)


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2nd: The warhead currently has 100mm of penetration, which is physically impossible for an EFP, which in reality is 127mm. The difference is due to the size of the warhead which is 127mm.

3rd: The TOW-2B utilizes 2 warheads, not just one. So even if the era on modern russian tanks stops the first one theres a second coming to kill them.
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This is my first post so if theres any issues feel free to tell me.

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Bump +1

Its guidance got destroyed recently, and its penetration is lackluster to say the least. Gaijin really needs to fix it…

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Gaijin really hates TOWs maybe?

Gaijin hate everything that destroy wallet warriors from hideout.
This is why we got more CQB maps and existing maps got shrunk.

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They won’t hit the same spot

it’s a tandem warhead basically 2 TOW missiles combined into 1 missile

I do agree that they will not hit the same spot but it still believe that this be a big improvement on the 2B, even if them hitting two separate areas is modeled in the game.

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That’s not what tandem means in the case of the TOW 2B, it has two EFP warheads in one missile at offset angles to increase the likelyhood/amount of damage done

ummmmmmm tandem means one followed by another … so why would a tandem warhead do that?

No no he’s got a point. Its not tandem like the 2A, but it does have 2 warheads in order to increase probability of kill.

The AH-64 Apache has a tandem cockpit, that doesn’t make the Apache an anti ERA missile.

lol I read 2B and my brain thought 2A
thanks for pointing that out

Are you ok? Tandem means one after another, that has nothing to do missiles specifically

There’s evidence that it’s also possible for an EFP to penetrate more than the diameter of the warhead, up to ~210% the diameter. So 100mm is likely the lowest possible estimate that still obeys the laws of physics. Anything less and the missile is literally fantasy, while increasing penetration (of the 127mm tantalum lined EFP) to a maximum of ~250mm is indeed more than possible in reality.

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