Wire-guided missile
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A wire-guided missile is a missile that is guided by signals sent to it via thin wires connected between the missile and its launch platform using command guidance. As the missile flies, the wires are
A TOW missile being fired from an M1134 ATGM vehicle, showing the two guidance wires (the wavy lines between the missile and the launcher)
9M14 Malyutka
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The 9M14 Malyutka is a manual command to line of sight wire-guided anti-tank guided missile system developed in the Soviet Union. It was the first man-portable anti-tank guided missile of the Soviet U
Wire-guided missile
…missile), leading to their widespread deployment in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Large numbers of Israeli tanks were destroyed using wire-guided AT-3 Sagger missiles during the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Wire guidance has remained the main system for most smaller weapons although newer systems such as laser…
Serbian-produced 9M142T copy
The turret of a BMP-1 with a 9M14M missile
Yugoslav People's Army Malyutkas overlooking Dubrovnik during its siege, December 1991
IDF soldiers inspect a captured 9M14 missile and launch unit.