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Man portable mini-maverics!

I started this topic on land warfare >

http://forum.a-10.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11272

These are mini Maverick missiles ~AGM-65B

$4,000 a (RPG) ‘missile’ finally !!! only 10lb total
Please LOOK!!!

www.defensereview.com/modules.php?name= ... le&sid=887

Fact sheet > It is a pdf
www.defensereview.com/stories/spike/SPI ... tsheet.pdf

Your opinions please!




Edited by - ProfessorFinkle on Sep 28 2006 14:00

I remember hearing somewhere a TOW is about $1500/missile?

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Dude, that thing ain't no Maverick. Not by a very, very long shot. Take it from a former tank commander, that toy isn't killing a main battle tank anytime soon. It's got its place on the battlefield, but comparing it to a 65 is like comparing a hand grenade to a Mk-82. Keep in mind the 65k's and d's have 125 lbs shaped charge warhead. The complete missile fired from that system weighs 5 lbs. It's cool, and it'll kill bad guys, but a man portable Mav it is not. Mini-Mav, kind of I guess, but one could call a pellet gun a mini-howitzer if one were so inclined.



Edited by - Detzel on Sep 30 2006 18:05

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Keep in mind the 65k's and d's have 125 lbs shaped charge warhead.

Edited by - Detzel on Sep 30 2006 18:05
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Detzel,
A little misspeak probably. Of the variants used by USAF, the B-, D-, and H-model Mavs have the 125-lb shaped charge warhead, mostly good on tanks and other vehicles. The G- and K-model Mavs have 300-lb kinetic penetrator warhead, good on buildings, bridges and ships in addition to tanks. G's and K's are muy bueno.

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The AGM-65 G MODELS

We saw our first ones the opening day of GW1, Man! looked like a
MAV with a NOSE JOB!But then again IR Mav's were far and few between before then in training.


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Detzel,
A little misspeak probably. Of the variants used by USAF, the B-, D-, and H-model Mavs have the 125-lb shaped charge warhead, mostly good on tanks and other vehicles. The G- and K-model Mavs have 300-lb kinetic penetrator warhead, good on buildings, bridges and ships in addition to tanks. G's and K's are muy bueno.
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You are correct sir. K is a G with a CCD seeker. Mavericks are wicked weapons.

I've shot a few K's in the sim, but the display in there doesn't differentiate very well between the IIR and the TV, they both look pretty much the same. (Same with B and D)

As for the topic at hand, again I think that new man portable job is a good tool, and will hopefully kill a few hadjis, but for taking out heavy armor there's nothing like a big, heavy guided missile.