Anti-tank missile vs tank

(1:07) Demonstrating a TOW2B missile doing what it's supposed to - kill tanks. TOW is an acronym that stands for "Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire command data link guided missile".

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Guest: Jimbo Chester (448 days ago)

I do not know if is me but the missile was quit a few yards from the tank when the tank exploded..I played it back a few times and I do not fully understand it.. But then why fake it.?

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Guest: Kablamo (448 days ago)

A tank has enough fuel or artillery to explode in its own right, you just need to disrupt it enough to set it all off. If you see on the slow mo there are two stages to the explosion, the missile, then the tank. All the missile has to do is produce a huge and fast shock wave and ignite.

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Guest: (447 days ago)

It's called a "flyover shoot down" warhead and the missile does indeed explode well above it's target

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Guest: Argle (448 days ago)

This is almost a cross-post with the Grace Hopper tribute I made. Another segment of the lecture series where I met Adm. Hopper included a couple lectures by a programmer doing anti-tank weaponry. The software technology at the time was quite sub-par and experimental. The "kaboom" technology was quite refined. when the device found a target (poorly and sporadically) it exploded a slab of C4 against a steel plate. The plate deformed into what I can best describe as a badminton bird which then violently contacted the tank. I stopped the lecturer on one of his slides where you could see a 50 foot gout of flame from a tank. I asked if that was explosives hitting the dummy tank. He explained that that was simply metal-on-metal. At the time, I was stunned. Since that time, it's clear the blast methods have been perfected. Rip into metal with sufficient force (spent uranium in a narrow rod inside a sabot as another example) and you can rip apart a tank rather spectacularly

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Guest: (445 days ago)

Latest comment: The 2nd explosion is large because it detonates the ammunition of the tank

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Guest: (448 days ago)

The weakest part of the tank is its top. the missile detonates first to fire a projectile downward that first attempts to penetrate the tank then a secondary explosion to destroy it.

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