Everyone knows that Russia is accelerating the process of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. With the issuance of a mobilization order, 300,000 reserve soldiers of are about to be summoned, and Russia has also unblocked a large number of Soviet-era weapons and equipment, making people feel that Russia is preparing to use the "steel torrent". However, Ukrainian is not idle at all. It is said that there is news that the Dow missile has been shipped to the Ukrainian army. Specifically, a photo was recently circulated on social media. It is said that Ukrainian soldiers took it on the battlefield. The photo content is the latest Dow heavy anti-tank missile system assisted by the United States. The news of
has not yet been confirmed. However, there are still possibilities for this news. After all, last month, the US military announced that it would provide assistance to Ukraine with 1,500 line-guided Dow missiles. When it comes to the Tao missile, everyone is familiar with it. After all, this weapon is the natural enemy of tank . Although this is the first U.S. anti-tank missile , which is self-made and put into actual combat, it also symbolizes that the U.S. anti-tank weapon sequence has entered a new era from the old era. By the way, as of 2018, 45 countries in the world have equipped this weapon, and more than 15,000 Dow missiles are still in service in the armies of various countries.
When the news spread that the Ukrainian army might have received the Dow missile, the outside world couldn't help but worry about the Russian army. As for why this is the reason, the main tanks of the Russian army on the Ukrainian front, whether they are the T-72B, T-72B3, T-80BV, and T-80BVM, are not equipped with infrared jammers and do not have the ability to interfere with the pottery missile. Not only that, the Dow missile is famous not because it is made in the United States, but because it is built bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit, such as Vietnam War , Iran-Iraq War , Gulf War , Syria conflict...
Let’s first have a general understanding of this equipment. According to relevant information, the minimum range of the Dow missile is 65 meters, the initial velocity is 65 meters/sec, the maximum speed is 860 meters per hour, and the probability of hitting is about 90%. It is worth noting that the thickness of its static armor-breaking is 1030 mm and the thickness of its dynamic armor-breaking is 300 mm. It should be noted that the Dow anti-tank missile body has a diameter of 152.4 mm, a length of 1174 mm, a weight of 28.1 kilograms, and a launch speed of three rounds per minute. Because of the use of wired transmission command guidance, the reliability is as high as 97.7%.
Specifically, there are currently two main models of Dow anti-tank missiles, one is Tao 2A and the other is Tao 2B. Among them, the former uses the conventional model of the tandem armor-breaking warhead, which can pierce 900mm vertical homogeneous steel armor, while the latter uses the flying attack top model, which is specifically used to attack the top of the tank. However, in terms of guidance methods, there is no big change in these two models. They are both very classic "semi-automatic guidance of aiming line". The transmission of instructions requires special copper wires at the tail of missile .
It should be mentioned here, that is, the US military has its own equipment to switch to the wireless version of Tao 2BRF, which switches to the radio transmission command. However, given the previous M777 howitzer that was aided to the Ukrainian army, we can conclude that this batch of Dow anti-tank missiles that were aided to the Ukrainian army are only a traditional limited version. Of course, there is another thing that we cannot ignore, that is, the Dow missile has very flexible operation and many launch platforms. It can be launched no matter whether it is mounted on a car or an aircraft.
But then again, in addition to worrying about not being equipped with infrared jammers, the Russian army also has to worry about the inventory of Dow missiles. After all, this is not equipped with an infrared jammer, and it can rely on the release of smoke to block the efficiency, which is a bit inefficient. However, Dow missiles are widely distributed in the armies of more than 50 countries of the US military and its allies. As long as the United States makes a sound to its allies, the Dow missiles in the hands of the Ukrainian army are "full capacity and full control". From this, it can be seen that the US has acted as "consuming inventory with inventory", which is really bad for the Russian army that wants to accelerate "special military operations".
