From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 11:19:47 PDT
>on 7/31/03 1:01 PM, Employee@MilVeh.com at milveh@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>
>> Grenades are more intended to cause causalties, same
>> for hard point ammo, all designed to put a casualty
>> burden on the op force. A LAWS or it's big brother
>> the TOW is just the opposite. Does anyone know why we
>> stopped using the LAWS? Seemed like a pretty nice
> > weapon for infantry.
We've got bigger warheads with better effects. Alan mentions the AT-4
there's also the SMAW and SMAW-D. MPIM/SRAW is a future development
possiblity for a more compact version.
AT-4
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/at4.htm
SMAW and SMAW-D
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/smaw.htm
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m141.htm
MPIM/SRAW
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/sraw.htm
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