Re: ?? on a weapon system

[Gurth <Gurth@xxxxxxxxx>]

According to DOCAgren@aol.com, on Wed, 05 Jun 2002 the word on the street was...

> 1. ADATS - Listed in the book as developed by teh Swiss for export and
> adopted by US Army as a Heavy Tactical missile system with a 6k range...

This is in use by Canada and Thailand only, according to the 1997 edition of 
Jane's Tank Recognition Guide. In Canadian service it consists of an eight-tube 
launcher in a fairly large turret on an M113 chassis, while the Thais have a 
shelter-mounted version without radar. The US Army tested the Canadian-type 
turret mounted on an M2/M3 Bradley hull in the late '80s/early '90s, but it was 
not adopted. The basic missile data according to JTRG are:

Range: 1 km to 10 km (aerial targets); 500 m to 8 km (ground targets)
Max Altitude: 6 km
Armor Penetration: 90 cm of steel

Aerial targets are detected by the system's radar, the target is then acquired 
by an IR or TV tracker, and the missile is laser-guided toward it. Ground 
targets are engaged similarly except that the radar doesn't come into it.

> 2. FOG-M - (Fiber-optic guided missile) comes in either a manpack 1 shot
> or a 6 shot model that rides a Hummer.

I think this was another development program by the US Army that never really 
got anywhere. I seem to remember seeing the photograph on which the artwork in 
the T2K Heavy Weapons Handbook was based, but the weapon never reached 
production. I don't have much more data on it, though.

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