Re: Assault guns

Howard Berkowitz wrote:

> Let me speak to the direct fire role, a heavier caliber moving with
> assault units. Isn't the heavy antitank and bunker destruction role
> now a missile function? In the former, the US approach would
> be some TOW carrier, be it ITV, Bradley, TOW Humvee, or
> helicopter.
>
> TOWs have been used against bunkers,

...often enough that there's now a TOW Bunker Buster version with a blast
warhead instead of the tandem shaped charge.

but I'm blanking on the name of
> the new man-portable system for which the Marines have an anti-bunker
> warhead and the Army antitank.

Probably you're thinking of Predator/SRAW (Short-Range Assault Weapon)

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/sraw.htm


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