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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Dragon ATGM
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Date: 19 Jun 91 01:01:51 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: hc1@bale.cis.ufl.edu (Harry Campbell)
>The Dragon ATGM is in fact the primary medium anti-tank missile for the
>U. S. infantry...  has a 1000m range...

Note that this makes it the only major infantry ATGM in service today with
an effective range *less* than the effective range of a typical machinegun.
This can make things very interesting for the Dragon controller when the
opposition follows the standard "on seeing a missile launch, spray the
launch area with gunfire to ruin their aim" tactic.  Apparently Dragon is,
uh, not well thought of among its users.
-- 
"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry