LOSAT (anti-tank missle)

This is a stupendous test shot of the LOSAT (Line of Sight Anti Tank missile). It's being launched off of a HUMVEE, which carries two loaded canisters on each side (4 missiles total). The commander/gunner can acquire and track three targets simultaneously, and engage one.
Since the missile is hypervelocity (5000 feet per second), and has a maximum range of 5 kilometers, it doesn't take long to reacquire and engage the next two targets. The missile carries a kinetic kill warhead and penetrates all known or projected armor; it is 5 times more lethal than today's hottest tank round. It is also air droppable by parachute and can be sling carried by helicopter. This must have given Iraqi tankers a warm fuzzy feeling.

I have no idea what the song is. It is the most common comment on this video.

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• tank

[mungbean34]

When the dust cleared the tank was only lightly paint scratched in one spot. Then it shot the jeep in half. Literally.

[onewheat]

Do you think so? I've seen tanks hit by LOSAT missles. I would invite you to sit inside one being fired upon, seeing as how it would only be 'lightly scratched' anyway and then you can return fire to my Hummer afterwards (if you are able).

[billay360]

No military weapon would be complete without a cheesy 90's guitar solo.

[rreidnauer]

I have a new appreciation of just how fast things would go bad if I were on the receiving end.

[marmaladekamikaze]

The computerized infrared tracking system is blinded by the launch blast. It may have taken just a second to reacquire the target and abruptly turn the supersonic missile. In addition, rain, smoke, fog and the rockets own propellant may disrupt the rear mounted laser guidance. As a result, there will be no chance of hitting anything within 1000 meters. It is too expensive to fire at non-tank targets, and the lack of an explosive charge limits its value anyway.

An excerpt from g2mil LOSAT

[LPNeptune]

will the launcher fit in the bed of a '97 Toyota Tacoma??? Lmao!!

[SecuR0M]

@mungbean34 the tank had a tiny hole in the top

and the entire crew was turned into extra chunky salsa

[Defender78]

id hate to be the guy having to hold the camera behind the target tank

[Hassanov777]

Name of the song plz???????????????????????

[JoeCrazyEyes]

@Shakin2012 Thse are the wost actually

[Helge129]

@mungbean34: When the dust cleared, the tank magically disappeared :P

[lorenzol1996]

What song?

[Spartan043]

@Breakerchase I can see why most countries have invested more money in next-generation fighter jets than in next-generation tanks. Tracked vehicles are a dead-end as far as their passive defensive capabilities go. True next-generation tanks will be capable of actively-jamming pretty much any targeting system imaginable, and use active thermal or even optical stealth to avoid detection. Without novel tech like Electric Reactive Armor, you simply can't make them any tougher than they are now.

[Spartan043]

@Breakerchase Hmm. There's a page out there with the specs on the Chiorny Oriol (which was supposedly a T-80 tank with a bunch of dress-up added onto it in order to test some aspects of the new design without building a full prototype). The estimated thicknesses for the turret armor in the design for this next-gen tank was up to 1.16m of RHAe against KE for the front of the turret, and 0.24m for the top of the turret against KE and EFP threats. The LOSAT could go through armor twice that thick.