TOW replaced much smaller missiles like the SS.10 and ENTAC, offering roughly twice the effective range, a more powerful warhead, and a greatly improved semi-automatic command to line of sight (SACLOS) that could also be equipped with infrared cameras for night time use.

the XM-26 TOW in Vietnam to sell Congress on the Advanced Attack Helicopter Program and accelerate the development of the TOW/COBRA to counter the Soviet tank threat in Europe.

Feb 6, 2017 · With the cease fire on Jan. 28, 1973, the mission of the 2d Combat Aerial TOW Team ended in Vietnam. The UH-1B HUEY helicopters and XM26 TOW systems were retrograded to the United States.

At 0200, an XM26 TOW/HUEY helicopter, along with COBRA gunships from the 361 st Aerial Weapons Company, was tasked to engage and destroy T-54 tanks firing 100mm rounds at Kontum City. Initially,...

The Cobra Missile System is a functional development of the XM26 and the TOW missile system developed for the failed AH-56 helicopter. Originally designed for the AH-1Q and AH-1S Cobras, the AH-1F Modernized Cobra was also rebuilt to use the system.

The BGM-71H variant, also known as TOW Bunker Buster, is a BGM-71E TOW 2A modified with a new warhead specifically designed for penetration of thick masonry and reinforced concrete bunkers. Development of this version began in mid-2001, and it is currently in production.

The XM26 armament subsystem fired a tube launched, optically tracked, wire guided antitank missile which weighed 54 pounds. The effective ranges were 500 meters (minimum) and 3000 meters (maximum). The time of flight at 3000 meters was 14.7 seconds.

March 72 The Army began the Improved COBRA Armament Program. The XM65 TOW/COBRA development program was a functional upgrade of the XM26 TOW/UH-1B HUEY armament subsystem. The COBRA was the...

Apr 22, 2009 · The markings on the TOW pods confirmed that the XM26 system mounted on 60-3553 was actually the system that 554 carried in Vietnam! Unfortunately, those markings were removed and she was repainted sometime in the 90s.

Apr 22, 2009 · After nearly a year of silence, Steve Maxham, USAAVNM’s director called me today to let me know that the USAFM is deaccessioning 554 and she will be returned to the USAAVNM for restoration to her original Vietnam appearance with the original XM26 system that she carried in combat.