I wonder do they have proximity sensors on the ordinance so that it doesn't go off in such circumstances?

Anybody know?

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)

Actually you are mistaken, the Milan is a Franco-German design license-built to BAE Systems, Spain and India.

And I believe the FGM-148 Javelin is far superior due to it's fire-and-forget missile configuration with lock-on before launch and automatic self-guidance capability.

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

Not french, but french-canadians.

Just sayin'

Quebecoise.

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.

@Farhad2000
Yeah the warhead has to travel 25m past the launcher before the warhead is armed but with a dud like that run like hell just in case. Thats just standard on any range. Then call in the Sappers/Pioneers and stay away from it. M203's have to spin a number of times before there armed like darksun said but wire guided rockets don't spin and there is a range finder built into the launcher. I never got to fire HEAT-WRAP rounds just TPT (pratice) rounds. There are 2 or 3 french units gearing up for the next tour in Afganistain.
@darksun
its a decision between range and punch.
ERYX 600m range can defeat reactive armor (the americans have so far refused to declassify there test M1 abrams vs ERYX)
MILAN 1/2 2200m range cant defeat reactive armor (Milan 3 can though but loses 200m)

But yeah the Javelin i have fired HEAT rounds and that thing is fun watching it slam into the target from above. They like to zig zag but before hitting they usualy fly up then just slam right into the target its fun to watch.

MLX, fix your tags. Since when was Quebec part of Canada?!?!

I did, say in my opinoin.

The new american democracy spreader missile

*tagschanged from "eryx, oops, wait for it" to "eryx, quebecoise, oops, wait for it"

I'm thinkin Quebec and Alabama have alot in common.

I fired an Eryx as part of pre-deployment training. It blew up in midair 80 metres out of the tube and me and my buddy got a faceful of hot wind and gravel... good thing there's no shrapnel in an Eryx! They told us later that our batch of missiles had been known to have some faults, which is probably why they let us reservists have 'em

That said: although the troops in the video are indeed French-Canadian, the Eryx missile is made by the French, by which I mean French-from-France. The company's called Aerospatiale. I refer you to Wikipedia (see above for the link) and to FAS:

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/eryx.htm

OK, I'm not changing tags or titles again. :grin

French Canadian in the title is always a winner.

Fine, I'll do it myself when I get to gold!

Tags changed from "eryx, quebecoise, oops, wait for it" to "eryx, oops, wait for it" by gold star member darksun.

It wasn't me.

*Removed for the miserable people in this world*

good job, canada!

stop making fun of Canada!

wow, I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. It's funny every time I watch.

I've been killed repeatedly by these things.

I think we all have.

lol deathcow u play bf2 also???

you know it:
http://bf2s.com/player/72118915/

Hey we're still 1 up from the Americans, we didnt fire it directly into the side of a friendly tank!

One of my favorites, I think it's time for a *promote.

Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Wednesday 14th February 2007 (promotion called by gold star member Zifnab)

In honor (or should I say 'honour') of Canada's pending U.S. invasion, this gets a *promote, just to show everyone south of the border what a formidable arsenal we employ.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 7:44pm PDT - promote requested by Oatmeal.

This video kinda makes me sad

If we don't have proper equipment we shouldn't even be over there.

*canada and *military

Invocations (canada) cannot be called by xxovercastxx because xxovercastxx is not privileged - sorry.

Allow me: *canada *military

Adding video to channels (Canada, Military) - requested by Oatmeal.

*fail

Adding video to channels (Fail) - requested by Norsuelefantti.