Army Wants to Replace the Cold War-Era TOW Missile with a New Longer-Range Tank Killer
U.S. Army maneuver officials at Fort Benning, Georgia, want to replace the venerable tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire-guided, or TOW, missile with an advanced projectile that can kill enemy tanks at more than twice the range. The Army fielded the first TOW missile system in 1970. It was initially wire-guided, so soldiers had to remain stationary and …
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