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We have simulators that we use in the school house and train with spent missile encasement's. Occasionally we will get a few missiles to take to a range. Alot of our time spent training is more focused on operating the sights/clu and employment and maintenance of the systems. Considering the javelin is fire and forget and the tow missile only requires you to keep the cross hairs on the target once fired there isn't really much of a need to train for what happens after the missile has been fired. When not training with missiles part of this mos is also being familiar with machine guns so we spend a lot of time training with those too.

not really any funny ones considering how the back blast of the missiles is not likely to end with the person walking away. I've only really seen one back blast incident and it was when a gunner in my platoon caught some of the blast from a tow missile and fucked his side up pretty bad, luckily he didn't take the brunt of the blast so he was fine aside from some burns and a bit of shrapnel from the diaphragm of the missile encasement.

I will say one funny story with a missile was when we were dealing with a hang fire, meaning the missile begins its pre flight functions but never actually fires. You have to wait 30 min for the thermal battery to die before moving the missile so the gunner was sitting there and about 15 min in there was a loud pop and it starting smoking. Its one of those things where its not really funny unless you were there but looking back at it watching him look at the missile with a confused/terrified look on his face was priceless.

First off i havent been to combat yet so this is just based on opinion - Well our primary role is to defeat tanks but given the fact that we haven't faced armored threats in recent years we are now used for softer targets and bunkers. As far as SVBIEDs machine gun fire should work just fine, a missile would be over kill but if it works why not (unless its against the armored versions that have been becoming popular then yeah high five that thing with a missile)

-The videos from Syria are mostly just vids of the missiles in flight and on impact but there are a few things that i see them doing. The main one is once you have fired that missile you leave a huge signature behind you from the back blast so as soon as you have impact you want to cut the wire and get the hell out of dodge. Other than that most the time they are getting good effects on target from with a pretty good amount of distance between them and the target especially considering that they are using an out dated TOW system.

-Javelin and Saber(TOW) systems are two completely different things. The javelin actually locks onto a target so once its fired you can just let it do its thing. The TOW missile is actually flown by the gunner via 2 wires which connect it to the system its fired from. The Javelin is also shoulder fired and can be carried by 1 person while the TOW has to be mounted on a vehicle or tripod. The saber system has much more powerful sights and the TOW missiles have a much farther range but you have to actually steer the missile to your target while with the javelin, once you fire you can just walk away and let it steer itself to the target.

Javelin- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BecUzACx9AA TOW w/ saber system- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPjQuuvpOPA

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