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bantam the end In 1990 our bantam company was dissolved and we recieved the new piranha-TOW2 system. Great improvement. I left the army in 2002. :)

bantam some more pics... bantam could be fired from the ground by a single man. The rocket was carried in the back. The second image features the supply haflinger and the "RITA" a wagooner jeep in which a printer would show the signals given to the rocket by the shooter during the training. the...

bantam At left Adjudant Kammerland, the only instructor who was able to teach how to pilot the rocket. He was fifthy five at that time and he retired when the swiss army withdrew that old weapon system in 1990. Bantam was introduced in 1965... 35 years of good service... and thousands of...

bantam Here is my friend and the other guys during the training with gas mask

bantam haflinger Hello thanks for your fast replies, pics from haflinger firing the bantam, me lying next to the guiding unit and my friend talos holding the same guiding unit. Year 1985

Hello, I was a former bantam swiss soldier. Bantam was a wire guided antitank rocket. Here is a pic from 1985 my first year in the military. You can see the Haf with rockets and the cable roll leading to the remote control. We had to pilot the rocket manually with a joystick. Range was from 600...