Manual command to line of sight (redirect from MCLOS)
Manual command to line of sight (MCLOS or MACLOS) is a method for guiding guided missiles. With an MCLOS missile, the operator must track the missile...
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NATO reporting name: AT-3 Sagger) is a manual command to line of sight (MCLOS) wire-guided anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) system developed in the Soviet...
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useful only for slower targets, where significant "lead" is not required. MCLOS is a subtype of command guided systems. In the case of glide bombs or missiles...
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Guidance: Radio command MCLOS Warhead: 5.4 kg HEAT 500 mm vs RHA;maximum 650 mm vs RHA for improved variant. 3M11 Fleyta MCLOS (NATO reporting name AT-2A...
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useful only for slower targets, where significant "lead" is not required. MCLOS is a subtype of command guided systems. In the case of glide bombs or missiles...
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using a small joystick, while also flying their own aircraft. All such MCLOS systems proved very difficult to use in practice. The updated AS-30L replaced...
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The Nord Aviation SS.10 was a MCLOS wire-guided anti-tank missile designed by the French engineer Jean Bastien-Thiry. In American service, the missile...
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ENTAC ("Engin Téléguidé Anti-Char") or MGM-32A was a French MCLOS wire-guided anti-tank missile. Developed in the early 1950s, the weapon entered service...
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preferred – and a range of 5 km (3.1 mi; 2.7 nmi) was necessary. As it was an MCLOS-guidance ordnance design, the operator had to keep the bomb in sight at...
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(MANPADS) anti-aircraft weapons system. Fritz X – an unpowered air-launched, MCLOS-guided anti-ship missile using the FuG 203/230 Kehl-Straßurg control system...
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the French and Germans. Due to the manual nature of the guidance, called MCLOS, where the operator had to first gain control of the missile and bring it...
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acoustic proximity fuze Guidance system: FuG 510/238 "Düsseldorf/Detmold" MCLOS visual guidance with wire control Unit cost: Date deployed: never Primary...
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use a type of command guidance termed manual command to line of sight (MCLOS). This requires continuous input from an operator using a joystick or similar...
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Azon guided ordnance device) and the 12,000 lb (5,400 kg) VB-13 "Tarzon" MCLOS radio-controlled bombs in Korea, mostly for demolishing major bridges, like...
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It could also carry four 57mm rocket pods on four underwing pylons, four MCLOS 9M17 Fleyta (AT-2 Swatter) anti-tank missiles on two underwing rails, free-fall...
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347 was a German wire-guided anti-tank guided missile (now referred to as MCLOS) developed during World War II by Ruhrstahl AG in 1943, after the Waffenamt...
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and missile launch post the opposite of manual command to line of sight (MCLOS) ones, thus allowing updated version of such anti-tank weapons (notably...
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The Kehl-Straßburg radio control link was a German MCLOS radio control system of World War II. The system was named for Strasbourg, the French/German...
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integrated on Rafale. TRIGAT LR Henschel Hs 298 – World War II design, MCLOS, never saw service IRIS-T MBDA Meteor long-range, active radar-guided, pending...
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aileron-fitted wings, and the receiving FuG 230 component of the Kehl-Straßburg MCLOS guidance and control system, shared with the contemporary Fritz X gravity-propulsion...
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Type 64 MAT Type 60 APC with two Type 64 MAT Type MCLOS wire-guided Anti-tank missile Place of origin Japan Service history In service 1964 - present...
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Similar in overall appearance to the manual command to line of sight (MCLOS), radio frequency guided Blowpipe, Javelin is slightly smaller, uses semi-automatic...
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take manual control, reducing the missile to MCLOS. The SACLOS guidance system has many benefits over MCLOS. The system's accuracy is quoted in some sources...
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The 3M6 Shmel (Russian: 3М6 «Шмель»; English: bumblebee) is an MCLOS wire-guided anti-tank missile of the Soviet Union. Its GRAU designation is "3M6"...
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systems (MCLOS) of earlier weapons like SS.11 were found to be difficult to use as the relative movements of the launcher and target increased; MCLOS worked...
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MCLOS (radio link) France SS.12/AS.12 1960 76 kg (168 lb) 28 kg (62 lb) 7 km (3.8 nmi) 370 km/h (200 kn) Solid-fueled Air, surface Wire-guided MCLOS France...
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had been rope-guided, and numerous early examples of torpedoes possessed MCLOS wire guidance and radio guidance, wire-guided torpedoes did not become common...
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radar-guided bomb) Fritz X GB-8 Kehl-Strasbourg radio control link, for MCLOS control of WW II German PGM ordnance List of anti-ship missiles United States...
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Range: 150 m to 4000 m Velocity: 185 m/s Guidance: Wire-guided, originally MCLOS, later upgraded to SACLOS, in which form the system is known as SWIG (Swingfire...
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Henschel Hs 293 missiles on external racks, if Bv 238 fitted with FuG 203 Kehl MCLOS guidance transmitter or 2 × 1,000 kg (2,205 lb) BV 143 glide bombs on external...
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