Since Guy Putnam yelled this at Steve Henderson, I hollered this in response:
 MS> I remember when the USMC used them as light artillery in Beirut
 MS> before the bombing. 
 
 SH> The Marines have -never- used the TOW as artillery.  
 GP> As I recall, it was LAWS rockets.
Rockets aren't artillery.  For that matter, the LAAW isn't a rocket.  It is
a missile.
 SH> Artillery is, by definition, an indirect fire weapon.  
 GP> How about 105's loaded with fleshettes?
The 105 Recoilless Rifle never fired flechettes, per se.  It fired a solid
projectile that -exploded- into anti-personnel fragments.  From what I
remember (the 105 -was- on its way out as obsolete as I was going in), this
was -still- an indirect fire weapon.
 SH> The TOW is line-of-sight only.
 GP> Maybe so, but it will deliver some shrapnel down-range . . . . .
No, it won't.  It delivers an -anti-armor- explosive shaped charge with
extremely high accuracy.  At NO time has the TOW ever been used as an
anti-personnel weapon.
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