My father was in the army and used the Dragon II when he was in the Army.

He had come into my room to see what i was doing and saw me playing wargame as some T72's were in a field and i had Dragon II's in the trees, I took them off cease fire, and away the missile goes! .............. into space.

Needless to say. My father cracked up and made a remark that it reminded him of the "Dragon".

I told him that it WAS the dragon... and heres what he says.

"...God that piece of s**t. That thing was a redundant use of a million or so dollars. We never put it up against a tank, but if if we did, that d**n missile was so slow, a t72 could detect it was being painted, turn its canon 180 degrees and get 2 rounds off before your missile hit. Was interesting watching it fly... Not a steady stream of motor. every half a second or so itd "puff" before falling a few inches and puffing again causing it to come up a few inches, the fins moving to keep it on target........ son of a b**ch flew in a circular pattern... have fun killing stuff with it"

So there. A comical history lesson from my father who seemed displeased about the AT of his time lol.

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The Dragon is basically more a guided-RPG than a real ATGM.

On this video, you can see and hear the "puff" you mentionned ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmgUZXeTy6I

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Haha thats awesome, its actually funny thing watching that, the anticipation mostly lol

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Haha, I cracked at the video quite a bit.

That thing is so noisy, it's like a message saying "So, you see, we're around there, in case you didn't notice being painted".

I can't imagine the noise of a volley of those!

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A WG:EE Volley that is! haha

The enemy wouldnt know whether to laugh or be scared

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No sound on this one, but you can clearly see the wire trailing behind the missile, and an "inside view" of the in-flight missile.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=uciZe3gi1pE

EDIT: Not a Dragon actually, the video's title is misleading ...

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Dont believe its a dragon, launcher and the missile itself are too different. Looked like a javelin prototype honestly

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Well, seems like you're right ... I was focusing on the wire, and didn't pay enough attention to the launcher ...
I was also impressed by how smooth the flight was in in-flight camera, I was expecting it to be more jerky from a Dragon. Now I understand why ...
Thanks for correcting me.

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No problem.. Um while i got your attention on weapons systems lol The Piranha Chassis LAV the the Marine Corps uses, would that be era correct for this game? or...

I know its early 80's and made as recon during the cold war and has MANY varients. Sorry about off topic, its just bugged me a little and i didnt want to post in a huge pop thread where itd get lost

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LAV are in the timeframe, but we don't do naval units.
No USMC, no French Infanterie de Marine, British Royal Marines Commando or Soviet Morskaya Pehota [sorry for the mispelling, quoted from memory], Polish 7th Naval Division either ... There were already so much Army units we had to leave aside in order to do the already honorable number of 350+ units that we've decide concentrate on Army only.

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