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Old 06-09-2016, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic View Post
At the time the book was written the only "Javelin" going by that name was, as mentioned by swaghauler, the British ManPADS (i.e. Man Portable Air Defence System). Since the 2000s, there is also the US ATGM known as Javelin but when GDW were writing the books, this system wasn't even a gleam in some weapon designer's eye, the nearest thing to it was the Tankbreaker.
This. The FM-148 Javelin actually came out of the Tank Breaker program and was adopted in 1996. In a strange twist of fate, its competitor the SRAW was adopted by the Marine Corps in the 21st Century (2003?). Thus, both weapon systems were eventually adopted. The British Javelin AA Missile was adopted in the mid 1980's. I think it is unusual that the British continued to use "actively guided" SAMs after both the majority of NATO and The Warsaw Pact had adopted IR Guided "Fire-&-forget" man-portable SAMs like the SA-7 and the Stinger.

A good book on the subject is The Encyclopedia of World Military Weapons by Cresent Publishing (1988, ISBN 0-517-65341-9). It lists virtually all of the weapons in the Heavy Weapons Handbook along with their characteristics.
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