Milan Anti-Tank Missile

MILAN (French: Missile d´infanterie léger antichar; English: Anti-Tank Light Infantry Missile, "milan" is French and German for "kite bird") is a European anti-tank guided missile. Design of the MILAN started in 1962. It was ready for trials in 1971, and was accepted for service in 1972. It is a wire guided SACLOS (Semi-Automatic Command to Line-Of-Sight) missile, which means the sight of the launch unit has to be aimed at the target to guide the missile. The MILAN can be equipped with a MIRA thermal sight, to give it night-firing ability.

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Science & Technology

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• Milan
• anti-armor
• missile
• Euromissile
• wire
• guided
• SACLOS
• anti-tank
• antichar

[bosesebi]

Libyans got those now

anti gadhafi Libyans

and that is good

[VulpisFoxfire]

@TeamVirility Maybe...but eever managed to jam or spoof a telegraph? :-) There are plenty of cases where a hardline beats a radio-linked or autonomous system.

[AJDownes100]

didn't a challenger 2 get hit by some sort om MILAN missile, and survived?

[glendelio]

It's not the launcher thats important but the missile. There are very modern milan missiles out now. MILAN 3 ;-)

[Frost2k6]

@Azyashi That's true, but if you're in a tank that's buttoned down it'd be relatively difficult to distinguish where the missile was fired, or that the missile was even fired at all, unless you're already looking at the location of launch since such systems don't use laser designation or IR illumination there's not much that could warn the crew of the launch until the missile is relatively close; but, you are right, if you can see em and shoot em you'll probably defeat the missile.

[Azyashi]

@Frost2k6 Not really. You see where the missile is launched from, you fire some machineguns there, the gunner ducks or flinches and the missile goes off course .

[Frost2k6]

I never realized the MILAN ejected the spent tube with the recoil from the launch. That's pretty neat, and though Wire Guided munitions have been around for ages now, they're still some of the hardest to produce countermeasures against.

[vnck25]

@TeamVirility

Wire or rope guided it doesn't matter, when it hits you, you will remember the milk you drank from your mother ha ha ha lol *&8?*&(:":"

[limpy37]

@TeamVirility But it still get´s the Job done , so F.... off !!!

[TeamVirility]

Fuking stone age rocket . Wires ?! Still telegraph