The HOT missile is tube-launched and optically tracked using the SACLOS guidance system with command link through trailing wires which steers the missile using thrust vectoring controls on the sustainer engine during missile flight. When the gunner fires the HOT missile, the missile activates a thermal battery, flares, and a small gas generator ...

Feb 15, 2001 · HOT is a tube-launched, wire-guided missile with semi-automatic command-to-line-of-sight (SACLOS) guidance. An infrared localiser measures the angular deviation between the missile and the line-of-sight.

The HOT has become one of the most successful missiles of its class, with tens of thousands of missiles produced, used by no fewer than a dozen countries worldwide, and validated in combat in several wars.

It was developed by the Euromissile consortium (MBDA France and LFK) on the basis of HOT APC and adopted for service in 1974. The "HOT" complex is designed for the armament of mobile vehicles (cars, drums, helicopters) and for stationary …

The HOT is a late Cold War era anti-tank missile of French/German origin. It was developed in the early and mid 1970's to replace the SS.11 missile. The name HOT stands for "Haut subsonique, Optiquement téléguidé, Tiré d'un tube", this translates to …

Euromissile was a European consortium set up in the 1970s by France's Aérospatiale and West Germany 's DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG to produce the Euromissile HOT anti-tank missile. On April 5, 1991, Thomson-CSF joined the Euromissile Economic Interest Group (GIE) to jointly develop the short-range anti-aircraft system Crotale NG. [1]

The HOT has become one of the most successful missiles of its class, with tens of thousands of missiles produced, used by no fewer than a dozen countries worldwide, and validated in combat in...

Lance missile, U.S.-made mobile short-range ballistic missile, capable of carrying either a conventional or a nuclear warhead, that was developed during the 1960s and fielded by the U.S. Army from 1972 to 1992, mainly in western Europe.

The HOT (French: Haut subsonique Optiquement Téléguidé Tiré d'un Tube, or High Subsonic, Optical, Remote-Guided, Tube-Launched) is a second-generation long-range anti-tank guided missile system. It was developed originally to replace the older SS.11 wire guided missile in French and West German service.

The French-built equivalent of the American TOW missile was the HOT — for Haut Subsonique Optiquement Teleguide Tire d'Un Tube — missile, which was standard equipment in the French arid West ...