June 14, 2017 - U.S. Soldiers with Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron, 172nd Cavalry Regiment, 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain), Vermont National Guard, fire a TOW missile system from a Humvee at Fort Drum, N.Y. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Avery Cunningham)
The TOW provides devastating effectiveness against the most modern and heavily protected armored vehicles and fortifications. L3Harris manufactures the warheads for two variants of the missile. TOW 2A is equipped with a tandem warhead. A small disrupter charge detonates the reactive armor and allows the main shaped charge to penetrate the main armor. TOW 2B operates in a "flyover shoot down" top attack mode with two tantalum explosively formed penetrator (EFP) warheads.
June 14, 2017 - U.S. Soldiers with Bravo Troop, 1st Squadron, 172nd Cavalry Regiment, 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain), Vermont National Guard, fire a TOW missile system from a Humvee at Fort Drum, N.Y. (U.S. Army National Guard/ Spc. Avery Cunningham)
Mar. 23, 2017 - A U.S. Army National Guard Soldier from the 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team fires a HUMMWV mounted BGM-71 TOW 2B Aero at tank targets during training at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. (U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Nicholas Young/Released)
Mar. 23, 2017 - A U.S. Army National Guard Soldier from the 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team fires a HUMMWV mounted BGM-71 TOW 2B Aero at tank targets during training at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. (U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Nicholas Young/Released)
Editorial | 10. 06. 2025
To ensure these critical systems — and those systems yet to be developed — work every time, we must have a robust testing infrastructure, writes Scott Alexander, President of Missile Solutions, Aerojet Rocketdyne, L3Harris, in Defense News.
