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NOTE: This article is about the static TOW launcher featured in ArmA: Armed Assault/ArmA 2. For other similarly named articles, you may wish to use the following links instead:
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| « | The BGM-71 TOW is an American anti-tank guided missile. TOW stands for "Tube-launched Optically-tracked Wire-to-command-Link." The TOW is able to penetrate up to 1m of armor, with an effective range of 3.750m. Armoury Description
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| TOW | |
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| Faction |  USMC U.S. Army
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| Type | Static Anti-Tank Missile Launcher |
| Diameter | 152 mm |
| Magazine capacity |
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| Variants | None |
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The TOW is an anti-tank missile launcher used by both the U.S. Marines and U.S. Army forces in ArmA 2.
Overview
The TOW is a defensive, anti-tank turret that can launch missiles via infrared or wire-guidance.
It can launch BGM-71E TOW missiles at a rate of one every 8 seconds (~ 7 rounds per minute). The launcher's sight has variable zoom optics and can toggle either normal day or a black-hot/white-hot thermal vision mode.
All TOW launchers come pre-loaded with one missile and have access to a further five spares (for a combined total of six TOWs).
The missile seekers can be set to autonomous guidance or wire-guidance; in the case of the latter, missiles can be controlled up to a maximum distance of 3,750 metres. However for autonomous guidance, they are capable of locking onto targets at a maximum of 4,000 metres instead.
Munitions
Static TOW launchers can only fire one type of ordnance:
| Damage type | Base damage value |
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| High-Explosive / Kinetic | 850 |
TOW missiles are launched with an initial velocity of 55.16 m/s and take a further 1.45 seconds to reach a top in-flight speed of 329 m/s. The missiles utilise a high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warhead that has a blast radius of 2 metres.
Trivia
- The TOW initially lacked the ability to use thermal optics and was only granted this capability after the release of the Operation Arrowhead expansion pack.
- For unknown reasons, in-game TOW missiles are depicted with the ability to lock-on via infrared. In reality, the BGM-71 (not even the in-game "E" model) is exclusively wire-guided.
- Although static TOW launchers were actually featured first in Armed Assault, they were not available outside of the Warfare game mode and could only be placed via the mission editor.
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See also
Static weapons of comparable role and configuration
- Metis AT-13 (Russian Armed Forces/Takistani Army counterpart)
- Static Titan Launcher (NATO/CSAT/AAF counterpart, ArmA 3 only)
 USMC - Armoury (ArmA 2)
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| Handguns | M1911 .45 • M9 9 mm |
| Submachine guns | MP5 9 mm |
| Shotguns | M1014 |
| Carbines | M4A1 5.56 mm (M4A1 M203) |
| Assault rifles | M16A4 5.56 mm (M16A4 M203) |
| Designated marksman rifles | DMR 7.62 mm • Mk12 SPR 5.56 mm |
| Sniper rifles | M107 .50 • M24 7.62 mm (M40A3) |
| Squad automatic weapons | M249 SAW 5.56 mm |
| Machineguns | Mk 48 Mod 0 7.62 mm • M240 7.62 mm |
| Launchers | FGM-148 Javelin • FIM-92F Stinger • M136 • SMAW |
| Static | M2 • M252 • Mk19 • M119A1 • Searchlight • Stinger • TOW |
| (Parenthesis) denote variants. | |
 U.S. Army - Armoury (ArmA 2)
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| Handguns | G17 9 mm • M1911 .45 • M9 9 mm |
| Submachine guns | PDW 9 mm |
| Shotguns | M1014 |
| Carbines | Mk16 CQC 5.56 mm |
| Assault rifles | SCAR series (Mk16, Mk16 EGLM, Mk17, Mk17 EGLM) |
| Designated marksman rifles | M14 7.62 mm • Mk17 Sniper 7.62 mm |
| Sniper rifles | M107 .50 • M110 7.62 mm • M24 7.62 mm |
| Squad automatic weapons | M249 SAW 5.56 mm |
| Machineguns | Mk 48 Mod 0 7.62 mm • M240 7.62 mm |
| Grenade launchers | M32 • Mk13 |
| Launchers | FGM-148 Javelin • FIM-92F Stinger • M136 • MAAWS |
| Static | M2 • M252 • Mk19 • M119A1 • Searchlight • Stinger • TOW |
| (Parenthesis) denote variants. Operation Arrowhead | |
