Enhanced Fiber Optic Guided Missile
Illustration — YMGM-157B The Raytheon MGM-157 EFOGM (Enhanced Fiber Optic Guided Missile) was a long-range enhanced fiber optic guided missile developed by Raytheon for the United States Army during the 1980s and 1990s to test the use of fiber optics in missiles. The missile was launched vertically and manually controlled by an operator on the ground by use of a television camera mounted on the nose. The signals from the camera were carried via a thin wire that unspooled the further up the missile reached.
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Enhanced Fiber Optic Guided Missile
U.S. Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. · A Glimpse at FOG-M. Army Research, Development Acquisition Magazine, January-February 1984, v. 25, no. 1, p. 3. · Public domain
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Illustration — YMGM-157B The Raytheon MGM-157 EFOGM (Enhanced Fiber Optic Guided Missile) was a long-range enhanced fiber optic guided missile developed by Raytheon for the United States Army during the 1980s and 1990s to test the use of fiber optics in missiles. The missile was launched vertically and manually controlled by an operator on the ground by use of a television camera mounted on the nose. The signals from the camera were carried via a thin wire that unspooled the further up the missile reached.
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The weapon was primarily designed for anti-tank use, or against low flying helicopters. The EFOGM was cancelled in 2002.
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XM44 EFOGM vehicle with launcher ready to fire
U.S. Army · U. S. Army Weapon Systems 1998, Page 161
Fiber-Optic Guided Missile (FOG-M) configuration
William R. Sanders, U.S. Army Research Institutefor the Behavioral and Social Sciences · MANPRINT Support of the Non-Line-of-Sight Fiber-Optic Guided Missile System, Figure 2
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