HMMWV-TOW
In an attempt to give their TOW missile teams some mobility, the US Military began to mount them on the ever versatile HMMWV (or Humvee). The HMMWV could keep up with armor and mechanized infantry and provide dedicated anti-tank fire.
In Team Yankee
The HMMWV-TOW is a pretty decent AT unit. The Improved TOW missile dishes out AT 21, FP 3+ hits from up to and including 48” way. The TOW is quite capable of dealing with MBTs and is simply overkill when dealing with transports.
The down side is that you have an all round armor value of 0, that’s right 0.
IRL
The mounting of a TOW on HMMWV was meant to improve TOW team mobility and give the US Army a counter to the USSR's use of ultra light ATGM vehicles that would spam defenses. In all it copied over all concept of Spandrel actually improved on it over the 1990s and into the 21st century TOW carrying HMMWVs have been heavily relied upon to attack forces using soviet era armor. Of course the combat seen was against the USSR's successor states and many middle eastern nations so how it would have compared in a hot nonnuclear WW3 is up for debate.
US Forces in Team Yankee | |
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Tanks: | M1 Abrams - M60 Patton - M551 Sheridan - RDF/LT |
Transports: | M113 Armored Personnel Carrier - UH-1 Huey - AAVP7 - Bradley Fighting Vehicle - Pickup Trucks |
Troops: | US Mech Platoon - Marine Rifle Platoon - Huey Rifle Platoon - HMMWV Machine Gun Platoon - Light Motor Infantry Platoon - Irregular Militia Group |
Artillery: | M106 Heavy Mortar Carrier - M109 Howitzer - LAV-M - M270 MLRS |
Anti-Aircraft: | M163 VADS - M48 Chaparral - M247 Sergeant York - HMMWV SAM |
Tank Hunters: | M901 ITV - HMMWV-TOW - LAV-AT |
Recon: | M113 FIST- M113 Scout Section - HMMWV Scout Section - LAV-25 - Bradley Fighting Vehicle |
Aircraft: | A-10 Warthog - AV-8 Harrier - AH-1 Cobra Attack Helicopter - AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter |