Anti-tank TOW missiles have wires connected to them because they're guided manually, not remotely. The wire allows operator to steer the missile.

The U.S. Army is preparing to say goodbye to an old friend. The Tube-Launched, Optically Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) anti-tank missile has served the Army for 50 years, tracking and destroying ...

The TOW missile system is small, consisting of a guided missile and a launcher. It measures only 1.17 meters long, with a diameter of 152 mm, and a weight of only 18.9 kilos.

While the speed of a TOW has slowly been increasing, only so much can be squeezed out of the missile with its engine and control surface design. Current variants travel around 320 meters per second.

The U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon a $676 million contract to continue manufacturing the TOW weapon system, which provides heavy anti-tank guided missile capability, RTX, the Arlington County parent ...

Raytheon, an RTX business, has been awarded a $322.5 million contract modification by the U.S. Army for the procurement of tube-launched, optically tracked, wireless-guided, or TOW, weapon systems ...

--Raytheon, an RTX business, was awarded $676 million to continue manufacturing the tube-launched, optically-tracked, wireless-guided TOW ® weapon system for the U.S. Army. The two separate ...

An RTX (NYSE: RTX) division will supply tube-launched, optically-tracked, wireless-guided missiles to the U.S. Army under a three-year, $322.5 million contract. Raytheon Land and Air Defense ...

A US-made TOW-2A wire-guided anti-tank missile is launched by Taiwanese soldiers from a M1167 TOW carrier vehicle during a live fire exercise at the Fanshan training grounds in Pingtung county.

When a TOW missile is launched from its tube, a long spool of connected wire unravels behind it as it travels. This wire is connected directly to a manual guidance system on or in the launch ...