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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire-guided_missile
It's been a thing for 80 years.
This blows my mind.
Yom Kippur was mentioned in the article. Some documentary mentioned the hundreds of trails of wire you could find on the battlefield. Not related but related idea were missiles streaming carbon fibers to short out electrical stations during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Missiles would be cooler if they didn't kill.
I’ve read the same thing about the trails of wire all over the place in the Falklands also.
Also as someone who fired Javelins and TOWs in the Marine Corps, missiles are just fucking cool. I was always jealous of the SMAW guys tho bc they had a bigger kaboom on the firing side of things. Although that’s technically rocket I guess, but still cool.
Why hello there, Mr. 0352.
At least your MOS still exists. I was one of them SMAW guys, and now both my job and old unit have been deactivated. It makes me feel like even more of a dinosaur than I otherwise would when I talk to people about my time enlisted.
Superhero with a shoulder mounted missile launcher like War Machine but they're Hawkeye's patented boxing glove missiles
Can't jam a missile getting a fucking telegraph.
If I remember right the cable only runs for a fraction of that distance. The missile goes up long enough to let the operator see and lock the target, then goes to self guidance for the rest of the trip.
This is such an obvious idea that it just shouldn't work yet it does