"TOW" meaning in English

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          "extra": "a kind of antitank missile",
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          "ref": "2015 October 12, Anne Barnard, Karam Shoumali, “U.S. Weaponry Is Turning Syria Into Proxy War With Russia”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "The American-made TOW antitank missiles began arriving in the region in 2013, through a covert program run by the United States, Saudi Arabia and other allies to help certain C.I.A.-vetted insurgent groups battle the Syrian government.",
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        "Initialism of tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided: a kind of antitank missile."
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          "tube",
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          "optically",
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        [
          "track",
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          "wire",
          "wire#English"
        ],
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          "guided",
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        [
          "antitank",
          "antitank"
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          "missile",
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        "(military) Initialism of tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided: a kind of antitank missile."
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          "optically",
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          "track",
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          "wire",
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