Anti-Personnel Rockets and Missiles

[Moronic Max]

A human life cannot be given a price tag. Not without gross injustice, at any rate.

As said elsewher at $40,000 a piece a TOW of any type is an expensive way to take out a bunker, given that a 120mm HE round for an M1A2 costs about $250.

How much does it cost to insure that there's an M1A2 everywhere one could be needed to burst a bunker, as opposed to making sure there's a TOW launcher everywhere one could be needed to burst a bunker?

[Imperial Grunt]

Originally posted by Moronic Max:

A human life cannot be given a price tag. Not without gross injustice, at any rate.

</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />As said elsewher at $40,000 a piece a TOW of any type is an expensive way to take out a bunker, given that a 120mm HE round for an M1A2 costs about $250.

How much does it cost to insure that there's an M1A2 everywhere one could be needed to burst a bunker, as opposed to making sure there's a TOW launcher everywhere one could be needed to burst a bunker? </font>

[juan_gigante]

LtCol West, when you say "Heavy Guns", do you mean indirect fire assets, or direct fire? Were they generally SP guns, or "regular" guns? Just trying to get a sense about what we're talking here.

[Peter Cairns]

Sadly in war, every life has a price, thats why every GI isn't in a $1m dollar exosuit. It's about how you spend the money. The real effectiveness of things like TOW is there ability to take out a MBT at long range even if it is moving. That's something you just couldn't do with an old M40 105mm recoiless rifle.

But You don't tend to engage Bunkers at that range and Bunkers don't move, so why not fit Hummers with an updated RR, for a unit cost of probably less than a single TOW round.

Another option worth looking at is AMOS

Amos Mortar system.

This would give highly effective conventional Mortar fire, probably better than the current Stryker 120mm mortar ,and the ability to rapidly engae fixed bunkers to support infantry.

The system itself isn't cheap but a 120mm Thermobaric mortar round is a lot cheaper than a TOW.

Peter.