Group : Anti-Tank Guided Missiles
Status : Retired - No Longer Operational
Origin : United States of America
Contractor : Raytheon
Initial Operational Capability (IOC) : 1970
Total Production : 314,000

The BGM-71A is the baseline model and was introduced in 1970.

Group : Anti-Tank Guided Missiles
Status : Retired - No Longer Operational
Origin : United States of America
Contractor : Raytheon
Initial Operational Capability (IOC) : 1982
Total Production : 60,000

The BGM-71C ITOW was delivered in 1982 featuring an extended probe for greater armor penetration and an improved motor enhancing the range up to 3750 meters.

Group : Anti-Tank Guided Missiles
Status : Retired - No Longer Operational
Origin : United States of America
Contractor : Raytheon
Initial Operational Capability (IOC) : 1985
Total Production : 80,000

The BGM-71D TOW 2 was delivered in the middle 1980s incorporating improved propellant, improved operation in obscurants presence and a wider warhead over the BGM-71C model.

Group : Anti-Tank Guided Missiles
Status : Retired - No Longer Operational
Also Known As : Orev (Israeli designation), TOW-2A
Origin : United States of America
Contractor : Raytheon
Initial Operational Capability (IOC) : 1988
Total Production : 118,000

The BGM-71E TOW 2A was developed to defeat armored vehicles outfitted with Explosive Reactive Armor (ERA). TOW2A features a tandem warhead, the first warhead set off the external ERA clearing the way for the TOW 2A's second warhead. The TOW 2A is combat proven defeating battle tanks with first/second generation ERA.

Group : Anti-Tank Guided Missiles
Status : Active
Also Known As : TOW 2B Aero, TOW 2B Aero Gen 2, TOW-2B
Origin : United States of America
Contractor : Raytheon
Initial Operational Capability (IOC) : 1992
Total Production : 40,000
Unitary Cost : USD $50,000

The BGM-71F TOW 2B was delivered in 1992 featuring increased lethality against armored battle tanks. The TOW 2B missile attacks tanks from the top where the tank's armor is weak.

TOW 2B also features a dual mode sensor and is equipped with two new warheads. It flies over the top of the tank to destroy it from above. The two Explosively Formed Penetrator warheads explode downward reaching immediately the tank's roof.

The TOW 2B missile has not been designed to replace TOW 2A, but to complement TOW2A offering the US military forces multiple choices to engage different targets.

In early 2002 Raytheon announced that the range of the TOW 2B was extended beyond 4,000 meters through changes in the missile's propulsion system and airframe. The TOW 2B Aero has a maximum range of 4,500 meters.

The TOW Bunker Buster is a special derivative equipped with a new warhead capable of breeching more than eight inches (20 cm) of reinforced concrete. The Bunker Buster missile is well suited for urban warfare.

There were plans about fielding a new fire and forget TOW derivative in the 2005-2010 timeframe, but due to lack of funds and DoD's statements a sixth generation TOW seems to be unlikely.

Group : Anti-Tank Guided Missiles
Status : Active
Also Known As : BGM-71E-4B-RF (TOW 2A), BGM-71F-3-RF (TOW 2B), radio frequency TOW, TOW 2A Radio Frequency, TOW 2B Radio Frequency, wireless TOW
Origin : United States of America
Contractor : Raytheon
Initial Operational Capability (IOC) : 2008
Total Production : 50,000
Unitary Cost : USD $400,000

Wireless TOW heavy anti-tank, precision assault missile replaces the wire guidance system introduced in the 1970s by a new wireless secure data link. Overall, wireless TOW is expected to perform as its predecessors with the data link subsystem built into the missile's case and the missile which allows operation with existing launch platforms such as ITAS, Bradley's launchers, M220 and TOW 2 subsystems. The US Army awarded Raytheon an initial contract worth $163 million for Wireless TOW development September 15, 2006. The radio frequency or wireless TOW is available with TOW 2A and TOW 2B warheads.

Group : Anti-Tank Guided Missiles
Status : Active
Also Known As : BGM-71H-1RF Bunker Buster TOW 2A
Origin : United States of America
Contractor : Raytheon
Initial Operational Capability (IOC) : 2010
Total Production : ?

The BGM-71H-1RF Bunker Buster TOW 2A missile is a variant of the Wireless TOW weapon which replaces the wire guidance system introduced in the 1970s by a new wireless secure data link. This new variant is intended to take out bunkers, field and urban fortifications as well as infrastructures and facilities.