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HOT (missile)

HOT-3
Long Range Anti-tank Weapon HOT 3 - ILA2002-clean.jpg
HOT-3
Type Anti-tank missile
Place of origin France / West Germany
Service history
Used by See users
Production history
Manufacturer Euromissile (now MBDA)
Produced 1977–present
Variants HOT 1, HOT 2, HOT 3
Specifications
Weight 24.5 kg
Length 1.30 m
Diameter 0.15 m
Warhead Tandem charge HEAT

Engine Two-stage solid fuel rocket
Wingspan 0.31 m
Operational
range
75-4,300 m
Speed 864 km/h
Guidance
system
SACLOS
Launch
platform
Vehicle, helicopter
External image
HOT - Vehicles
HOT missile details
External images
HOT - Vehicles
HOT firing from UTM 800 Turret on VAB vehicle
UTM 800 turret fitted to Panhard VCR-TH vehicle. Similar to ones supplied Iraq
French Army VAB mounting MEPISTO HOT Turret
LANCELOT turret on AMX 10P firing HOT
LANCELOT HOT turret mounted on AMX 10P side view - in service Saudi Arabia
HOT UTM 800 Turret Installations
External images
HOT - Helicopters
French Army SA342M Gazelle firing HOT missile
Kuwaiti Air Force SA342K Gazelle with HOT missiles
German Army MMB BO105P armed with six HOT missiles
German Army BO105P PAH1 antitank helicopters with HOT missiles
External images
Viviane night sight
Viviane fitted to Dauphin SA.361H
Aerospatiale SA361H Dauphin fitted Viviane night sight and 8 HOT missiles

The HOT (Haut subsonique Optiquement Téléguidé Tiré d'un Tube, or High Subsonic Optical Remote-Guided, Tube-Launched) is a second-generation long-range anti-tank missile system developed originally as an effort to meet a joint German-French Army requirement, by the then German firm Bölkow and the French firm Nord, to replace the older SS.11 wire guided missile which was in service with both nations. A few years later, Bölkow and Nord merged into MBB and Aérospatiale respectively, both of which firms later formed Euromissile to design and produce the MILAN, Roland and HOT.

This firm (now MBDA), is a joint corporation of French and German defense firms. 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. The missile system is also commonly mounted on light and medium armored vehicles, and attack helicopters.

The HOT entered limited production in 1976, with mass production of 800 missiles a month reached in 1978. The HOT became initially operational with the German and French armies fitted to specialized armored antitank vehicles. In addition, Euromissile was in the enviable position of having large export orders from Middle East nations at the start of mass production. This was likely due to the situation in the late 1970s where many nations did not want to rely solely on arms purchases from the USSR combined with the US Congress restrictions on the export sales of the TOW antitank missile.

In Europe, the end of the service life of the HOT missile system is in sight with the French opting to purchase Hellfire II missiles for their Tiger-HAD attack helicopters and the Germans planning to transition to the PARS 3 LR. Austria has decommissioned its HOT-carrying tank destroyers, while Spain is transitioning to Spike missiles to replace their HOT missile inventory. The HOT missile continues to be in widespread use in other areas of the world.


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