What makes you think this is a Russian anti-tank missile? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_anti-tank_missile

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Have a look here... http://www.videosift.com/video/Goliath-German-anti-tank-robot.

Same footage with voice-over narration and sub-titles.

this would be a dupe, I believe.. http://www.videosift.com/video/The-New-French-Canadian-Anti-Tank-Missile

The 2nd amendment, if put into modern context, means that ordinary people should be able to buy:

Tanks
Armor-piercing anti-tank missiles
Infantry fighting vehicles
Helicopter gunships
Surface to Air missiles
3,000 mile ballistic missiles
Nuclear weapons

Ya know, the tools needed to overthrow the government militarily.

I say, do that if you believe in the 2nd amendment, or realize that there's a reasonable limit to the types of arms an individual should be allowed to own.

I'm not a proponent of a universal gun-ban, but there should be controls on who's allowed to have guns, what guns are available to citizens, and effective means to track their sale and use.

You have a right to free speech, but you can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater. The same logic applies to the 2nd amendment, unless you're willing to allow private ownership of military equipment capable of defeating the regular military.

The GAU-8 Avenger on the A-10 Warthog is meant as a Anti-Tank weapon thus it is loaded with a combat mix munitions composed of Armor Piercing Incendiary (DU) and High Explosive Incendiary rounds.

"The GAU-8 Avenger fires a mix of both high explosive incendiary (HEI) and armored piercing incendiary (API) ammunition. A typical combat load for the GAU-8 would include 1,100 rounds of 30mm high explosive or armor piercing ammunition. The 30mm API is mixed with 30mm High Explosive Incendiary (HEI) at the factory and is called Combat Mix Ammunition. The ratio of API to HEI rounds in the Combat Mix is 4:1. Combat mix is a sequential mixture of DU and HEI rounds in which 1 HEI round followed by 4 DU rounds are fired by the AN/GAU-8 gatling gun. DU is the primary munition for the A/OA-10 in a combat environment."
FAS Article on the GAU-8 Avenger.

The combat mix is a practice solution for what is essentially a belt fed system in the air, changing munitions out is not ideal within a combat zone where targets of opportunity would change requiring a change of attack profile, the A-10 landing and switching out rounds would not work.

I believe this is a video from Afghanistan not Iraq. CAS is provided by US forces for International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which is an operation of NATO nations including the U.S. BBC News would report casualties, while close calls like this is a daily occurence for operations both in Afghanistan and Iraq. This was from MilitaryVideos.com

It probably would've been relatively easy to get a mobility kill by targetting the tracks. You still would've needed soldiers with an anti-tank rifle for that, though, and then you'd be firing heavy weaponry in the middle of town. Not good.

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Ah, that explains it.

*titlechange from "The New French Anti-Tank Missile" to "The New French-Canadian Anti-Tank Missile" so we don't leave the Canadians out of our scorn and ridicule.

I know! Lets banter a load of wiki links of anti-tank missiles to each other!

Well, pretty much every piece of explosive ordinance has a inertia sensor, but i don't know about a proximity sensor.

I know for a fact that the 203 underslung grenade launchers used by the army have a 20m inertia sensor, so an anti-tank missile is bound to have one.

Wiki: ERYX
Wiki: MILAN (In my opinoin, a much better anti tank missile, used by more countries and built by BAE
Systems)

Hellfire? That's a new one... this is the FGM-148 Javelin fire-and-forget anti-tank system

Cool I outrank you!

I was a dedicated medic when I started BF2, then anti-tank and now am a fully fledged sniper with an accuracy of 22.59%...

http://bf2s.com/player/63126293/

That's actually a good question. the swiss have always felt kind of being isolated in europe and it's still pretty much this way. first, in the middle ages, they were a bunch of farmers who ruled themselves (instead of having nobles to do so) and gained their independence in lots of wars against their neighbours (territories of noble families such as the habsburg-dynasty) between 1300 and 1525. (imagine how popular you get, when your "army" of 1500 peasants beat 4000 well equiped knights) and later, the swiss where the only one in europe to transfer their republic in a modern democracy (they basically copied the us-constituion in 1848) while the other countries were still monarchies. there were numerous occasions where a war could have broken out (with germany). only england and the "sister republic" USA (as ben franklin once called it) supported the tiny country (30'000 sq. miles(!) so this whole "not being a part of europe, being the lone wolf", is deep in the swiss psyche and manifests itself by switzerlands hesitation to join international organisations (un not until 2002, eu no, nato no) and vice versa by the lack of understanding by many european countries for the basic democratic system in switzerland (all important issues decided by referenda, no full-time members of parliamet, no single "leaders" - mayors, governors, presidents - but only collective bodies - town council, governmental council - federal council) with that in mind and especially the experience of being rounded up by a hostile force in the 2nd world war, it's no surprise that the swiss always felt they had to be armed and well prepared. but things were worse than today. during the cold war, (where switzerland strongly opposed the soviet union but wasn't part of nato) there were 650'000 (militia)soldiers, 500+ battle tanks, 1500 m113-apc and 300+ jet fighters awaiting the red invasion. nowadays, the army, reduced to 200'000 with 300 leo2 battle tanks and 50 F-18 and 100 f-5, shrunk considerably and is desperately looking for new tasks. (note: there's a peoples initiative called "gsoa - movement for a switzerland without army", that urged for a referendum to abolish the army that was approved by 30% of voters in 2001).
but it's a long way to go until we'll be a "normal" country, i'm always reminded of this when i see my automatic rifle in the closet. (they hand out the full equipment to the soldier - every man between 20 and 35 - to be able to fully mobilise in 48 hours). strange? yes, indeed. but of course, beside that, the country offers great things: the highest quality of living (according to a study, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zurich), extensive public transport - trains running to and from everywhere from 5am to 1am, low taxes, a liberal (gay marriage approved by referenda) and in general environmental friendly policy and a society, that is able to integrate 1 million refugees only with minor problems, one of the lowest crime rates in the world and so on....probably not the worst place to live - at least as long as more money is spent on public transport than on defence. and if life gets too boring, you're in paris, berlin, rome, within 4-8 h, by train or car...

and because of the ill-gotten wealth. that's an tough point. are your refering to the banking deals with the nazis? well, that's a point. but banks are not the most important companies that contribute to our wealth (i only mention insurances, chemical industry, tourism, machine industry, computer industry - guess where the tft-lcd display technology was researched and where logitech was founded). in 1848 - see above - switzerland was the poorest country in europe. with democracy and individual (economical) freedom there came growth and by 1914 it was an industrialised country just as the rest of europe. then this rest decided to go to war, to kill each other and to end the world as it was known. switzerland took care of the refugees and feared german invasion, but not more. so our country survived relatively unharmed. then a few years later, the nazis took power in our neigbour country to the north. the first anti-nazi comments where published the same day in the zurich based german language newspaper "neue zürcher zeitung" what had the consequence, that swiss newspapers where banned in germany from then on. switzerland was also the only country in europe, where extremist parties (left and right) were NEVER in the parliament. lot's of german (jewish or not) refugees came to switzerland but most moved to the US when the war broke out. when the war broke out, suddenly there were only germany and german occupied territory around. as a country heavily depending on imports (no natural resources except water and stone), switzerland had to arrange itself with germany. the swiss were guaranteed coal and steel imports and germany got the right to ship goods in sealed trains through the country to its ally italy. the swiss struggled to produce the necessary food that was needed. football stadiums, parks and gardens were used to plant potatoes. 20'000 bunkers and 10'000 km of anti tank walls were built because the only question in peoples minds was when the germans invade, not if. german air force planes flew into swiss airspace to provoke airfights. (ironically, the swiss shot down several of them). but as it was pointed out in recent years, other things happened. a super dutifully swiss bureaucrat suggested the "j" stamp in german passports for jewish citizens! a bunch of right wing politicians said "the boat is full", meaning that no more refugees should be allowed to cross borders. and banks (independent companies) made business with slaughters. but what did the government do? they tried their best to keep switzerland out of the war without giving up freedom and democracy - there was no censorship - facing the immense problem of imports. and the people? german speaking swiss (60%) are traditionally anti-german, french speaking (30%) saw the fate of france and the italian speaking strongly opposed the italian fascists as well - also because fascists both in italy and germany always kind of pointed out that the swiss who spoke their language should actually be part of their respective "reichs". and there were not at least brave individuals, such as border-guards who - risking their own lives - helped refugees whether jews, gypsies or socialists cross the border "illegally". after the war, sure, switzerland was the only country whose cities were not destroyed. and that gave us a advance in the economical recovery. but i think, much more than this cruel examples of immoral, disgusting and greedy behaviour, the fact that switzerland is a very stable country with grass-root-democracy and a highly skilled labour force (in minimum speaking 3 languages, 2 of the country and english) as well as its geographical position in the middle of europe are responsible for the economical success. of course, we should never forget what happened, and we must keep on studying our past, that such things will never happen again. but i think thats more or less true for every country or society....

sorry 'bout the much too long answer. hope your question was not a rhetorical one...