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Infrared and guided fire-and-forget missile launcher. For all your moving target needs.
Ammu-Nation and Social Club description.

The Hawk & Little Homing Launcher is a weapon that appears in Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online, as part of the Festive Surprise update.

Design[]

Grand Theft Auto V and Online[]

Ex-Military infrared guided missile launcher. Is it strictly approved for civilian use? No. But will anyone be able to drive away fast enough to report you? Now you’re asking the right questions.
Career Builder description, GTA Online.

The weapon is a shoulder-fired surface-to-air (SAM) missile launcher based on the SA-7 Grail, though it has a tracking antenna and trigger guard from a FIM-92 Stinger. The launcher's warhead is also exposed, instead of housed in the tube.

It has the unique ability of targeting vehicles, both ground and air. Its targeting system is similar to the missiles found on some weaponized aircraft, being able to lock-on to selected targets indicated by an outlined box. It can also be fired freely without any targets. As such, it is similar to the Heat Seeking Rocket Launcher from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

According to the text on the side of the weapon, the Homing Launcher is property of the San Andreas Government.

Performance[]

Grand Theft Auto V and Online[]

The Homing Launcher has an incredibly long range; it can lock on to vehicles 300 meters away, and the missile has a maximum range of 1,080 meters before it self destructs in ten seconds, being able to follow fighter jets for a very long distance, surpassing all missiles/rockets (including mounted rockets on vehicles). The projectiles fired by the Homing Launcher are very fast (108m/s or 388.8kph) and can easily chase down a P-996 LAZER in flight. The missiles can destroy or disable aircraft in only one hit, making them the best weapon to use against aircraft, alongside the Minigun and the Railgun. The missile is most effective at pursuing escaping enemies, as approaching ones will have a much easier time dodging the missile. However, it takes two seconds to acquire lock-on to a target. Additionally, it can carry only 10 rockets instead of 20 unlike the normal Rocket Launcher. Homing Launcher missiles locked onto a player-controlled aircraft (especially noted with helicopters) is able to sweep back around when it misses its target the first time. Additionally, rockets fired at stronger vehicles (like the Rhino Tank, Cargobob, etc) by the Homing Launcher may cause fire to be spread onto the vehicle. Although this can avoid explosion, it can still cause damage to the vehicle, especially aircraft.

A well-shot missile is likely a death sentence for unarmored helicopters and slow planes. However, an experienced pilot in a fighter jet will easily dodge its shots, although they will probably break off their attack while missiles are in air in order to get rid of them.

Unlike the Rocket Launcher however, the explosion damage against vehicles is lower and, as such, vehicle explosion is not guaranteed when hitting an aircraft or an armored helicopter such as the Cargobob. It will, at least, destroy the engine (in the case of aircraft with multiple engines, one of the two) and may even blow parts off, making piloting the said vehicle much harder. It will take three times the amount to destroy certain vehicles like the Insurgent, which requires 23 homing missiles rather than eight RPG rockets to blow it up, due to a flag that does not inflict extra petrol tank damage. These missiles share the same blast radius similar to the Rocket Launcher and most explosives (five meters), and are still lethal if caught anywhere in the explosion.

The Homing Launcher has been rebalanced in the Heists update to have increased reload times, reduced firing rate, and an increase to the resilience of large capacity planes against it. Additionally, it appears to be less effective compared to the rockets fired from a Ruiner 2000 (Import/Export).

GTA V' and Online Overview[]


Weapon Statistics - Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online
Damage
(per shot) [?]
Fire Rate [?] Range
(m / ft) [?]
Ammo Specifications/
Capacity
Reload Mechanism Reload Speed [?]
Weapons.meta
0 (Base damage)

500 (direct)
50 (edge)

0.8
(75 RPM)
300 / 984 1 (10) N/A N/A
In-game Statements / Markings
N/A N/A N/A Infrared/Guided missile N/A N/A
Observed
N/A 15 RPM 1,080 / 3,543.3 Single homing rocket Rocket insertion N/A
Rockstar Games Social Club [?]
HomingLauncher-GTAV-RSCStats
Damage
95%

95%

Fire Rate/Speed
5%

5%

Accuracy
25%

25%

Range
75%

75%

Clip Size
10%

10%

Customizations[]

Grand Theft Auto V and Online[]

Rounds & magazine GTA V GTA Online
Rockets (2) $400 $1,500
Tints
Black Default Default
Army $5,000 $5,000
Green (Collector's and Enhanced Edition) $5,250F $5,250
Orange (Collector's and Enhanced Edition) $5,500F $5,500
LSPD $5,750 $5,750
Pink (Collector's and Enhanced Edition) $7,500F $7,500
Gold (Collector's and Enhanced Edition) $10,000F $10,000
Platinum (Collector's and Enhanced Edition) $12,500F $12,500
F Free for players that have the Special/Collector's edition of the game.

Image Gallery[]

In-game model[]

HUD icon[]

First-Person View[]

Artworks[]

Locations[]

Grand Theft Auto V[]

Original version[]

  • Available in all three protagonists' weapon inventory after the update is installed.

Enhanced version[]

Grand Theft Auto Online[]

  • Available for purchase from Ammu-Nation for $75,000.
  • Can be found within a Galaxy Super Yacht interior, in the first bedroom in the left hallway, next to a Proximity Mine.
  • Can be found in the player's Hangar on the top level, just above the hangar exit.

See Also[]

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Added as part of the following GTA Online content updates:
Lowriders | Ill-Gotten Gains Part 2 | Ill-Gotten Gains Part 1 | Festive Surprise | The Last Team Standing Update | The Independence Day Special | The "I'm Not a Hipster" Update | The High Life Update | The Business Update | The Valentine's Day Massacre Special | Beach Bum Update
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ThrownAcid Package | Flare | Grenade | Jerry Can (Hazardous | Fertilizer) | Molotov | Proximity Mines | Pipe Bomb | Snowballs | Sticky Bomb | Tear Gas (BZ)
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Beta/UnknownAssault MG | Assault Sniper | Dippo | Fire Axe | Fire Extinguisher | Laser | Laser Sight | Lasso | Loudhailer | Programmable AR | Rubber Gun | Shovel | Tear Gas Launcher
ManufacturersCoil | Hawk & Little | Shrewsbury | Vom Feuer
Related PagesWeapon Wheel | Attachments | Ammu-Nation | Gun Van | Weapon Workshop | Weaponized Vehicles (Workshop)
DLC Content Weapons
The Chop Shop | San Andreas Mercenaries | Los Santos Drug Wars | The Criminal Enterprises | The Contract | Los Santos Tuners | The Cayo Perico Heist | Los Santos Summer Special | The Diamond Casino Heist | The Diamond Casino & Resort | Arena War | After Hours | Southern San Andreas Super Sport Series | The Doomsday Heist | Smuggler's Run | Gunrunning | Cunning Stunts: Special Vehicle Circuit | Import/Export | Bikers | Cunning Stunts | Further Adventures in Finance and Felony | Lowriders: Custom Classics | Be My Valentine | January 2016 Update | Festive Surprise 2015 | Executives and Other Criminals | Halloween Surprise | Lowriders | Freemode Events Update | Ill-Gotten Gains Part 2 | Ill-Gotten Gains Part 1 | Heists | Festive Surprise | The Last Team Standing Update | The San Andreas Flight School Update | The Independence Day Special | The "I'm Not a Hipster" Update | The High Life Update | The Business Update | The Valentine's Day Massacre Special | Holiday Gifts | Beach Bum Update

Other Weapons
Enhanced Version | Special/Collector's Edition and Pre-Order Bonus | Rockstar Games Social Club
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