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Courtesy Paash of IDF:
Infantry is crucial for the frontline defence of nations around the world. As technology evolved, these assault vehicles have grown faster and deadlier. The armour-plating on the combat vehicles too has seen numerous upgrades over the decades, As lethal they are for their enemies, they too have their nemesis.
Armour-piercing missiles have been making life miserable for most infantrymen, especially tankmen. Most modern Anti-Tank Guided Missiles have shaped charge high explosive warheads, designed specifically for penetrating armour.
Top-attack weapons such as the India's Nag, American Javelin and the Swedish Bill are designed to focus the explosion down through an armoured fighting vehicle's thinner turret-roof or upper-hull armour.
Nag (India)
The Nag is a third-generation (Gen-3), 'fire-and-forget' missile; once it is fired, its seeker automatically guides the missile to even a fast-moving tank. In earlier-generation missiles an operator had to guide it all the way, often exposing himself to enemy fire.
Nag missile operators search for enemy tanks through thermal imaging telescopes, which see as well by night as they do by day.
Picking up a tank, the operator locks the Nag's seeker onto the target. A digital snapshot of the target is automatically taken, which serves as a reference image.
As the Nag streaks towards the target, at 230 metres per second, the seeker takes repeated snapshots of the target; each one is compared with the reference image, and deviations are translated through on-board algorithms into corrections to the Nag's control fins, which steer the missile precisely at the target.
Maximum effective range: 4 km (Guidance mode: IIR (Imaging infra-red)), 7 km for air-launched variant
BILL 2 (Sweden)
The BILL 2 missile was designed upon the original BILL 1 Anti-tank guided weapon that has been in the service of the Swedish Army since 1988.
The BILL 2 comes with one 10.5 kg missile, a launching tube, tripod with x7 magnification day sight, and one thermal imaging sight. The missile uses OTA or Overfly Top Attack to attack its target.
The missile flies towards the target on a standard horizontal trajectory, but rather than directly hitting the target head on, it overflies it, detonating its warhead on top of an armoured vehicle, where the armour is usually lighter.
It also utilises additional guidance accuracy via the installed rate gyro, which monitors the tracking movement of the launcher. It is designed primarily to attack armoured or unarmoured vehicles, but can also be used to attack helicopters or soft ground targets, such as light buildings.
The missile system is effective against both static and moving targets with an effective range of 150m to 2,200m. Flight time at maximum range is 13 seconds
M93 Hornet (US)
The M93 Hornet is an anti-tank off-route munition made of lightweight material (35 pounds) that one person can carry and employ.
The Hornet is a non-recoverable munition that is capable of acquiring targets by using sound and motion detection methods.
When the mine detects a suitable target in range, the mine turns to face the target and elevates the submunition launcher to the correct angle. The submunition is then fired in the direction of the target using a gas generator.
Once the Hornet is armed and the self-test is performed, the munition will remain active until its self-destruct (SD) time expires or until it is encountered. The SD time (4 hours, 48 hours, 5 days, 15 days, or 30 days) is determined by the user. The munition will self-detonate after the SD time has expired.
Hornet munitions have an employed life of 60 days in the pre-armed mode (remote arming) and 30 days in the armed mode. If the temperature exceeds 100 degree Fahrenheit, the employed life drops to 15 days in the pre-armed mode and 30 days in the armed mode. Its standoff distance is up to 100 meters from the deployment site
MBT LAW (Sweden)
The MBT LAW is a man-portable, fire and forget, disposable weapon consisting of an anti-tank missile sealed within a launch tube.
The MBT LAW has been designed to counter main battle tanks at short ranges as well as buildings, fortifications and non-armoured vehicles. The weapon features a single shaped charge detonated by magnetic and optical sensors striking downward at 90-degree.
It only weighs less than 12 kg and is absolutely free of maintenance. The weapon operator must track the target during 2-3 seconds before the launch.
During that time the guidance control system of the MBT LAW calculates the foreseeable position of the target. The weapon can be launched at 45-degree upward/downward.
Once launched, the projectile follows top-attack or direct attack profile according to pre-launch settings.
Max Range: 600 m, Minimum Range 20 m, Top Speed 200 mps
SPIKE (Israel)
Rafael, based in Haifa, Israel, manufactures the Spike family of anti-armour weapons. The weapons are lightweight fire-and-forget anti-tank missiles and use electro-optical and fibre-optic technologies.
The weapon consists of the missile in its canister and the firing post comprising a command launch unit, thermal imager and firing post. The operator can maintain tracking and update aim points while the missile is in flight, and even change targets in mid-flight. SPIKE is quick, too.
Utilising the fiber-optic communications link, the Spike missile can also get target and guidance updates during the flight. The Spike Family consists of missiles suited for several platforms, multiple ranges and a variety of targets.
In fire-and-forget mode, the soldier activates the missile, locking the tracker on the target and pushes the fire button to launch. The missile automatically propels itself towards the target without any additional interaction and this fire-and-forget capability allows the soldier the option of relocating to a new firing position or to reload immediately for the next engagement.
Type 01 LMAT (Japan)
The Type 01 LMAT is a Japanese man-portable fire-and-forget anti-tank missile.
The missile guidance system, infrared detection is nested and launchers that carry the equivalent weight is 17.5 kg and also for applying and firing a single missile is enough soldiers.
Similar to other modern anti-tank missiles, it is a deadly weapon feared by armoured vehicles crewmen.
At the speed of 4 Kilometers per minutes, it delivers an accurate point fire out over several kilomoters with its Infrared homing guidance system.
Since 2001, the Type 01 LMAT is into service with the Japan Self Defence Forces.
OMTAS (Turkey)
OMTAS has a maximum range of 4km and is fitted with a nose-mounted imaging infrared seeker and a tandem HEAT warhead.
It has fire-and-forget and fire-and-update modes and can be launched from a confined space.
The OMTAS has the following capabilities:
1) Lock-on before and after launch
2) Can be used in day or night and in adverse weather conditions
3) Tandem warhead, effective against reactive armours
4) Insensitive munition characteristics against liquid fuel fire and bullet hits Communication of seeker image to the user and command by user using Data Link.
Infantry is crucial for the frontline defence of nations around the world. As technology evolved, these assault vehicles have grown faster and deadlier. The armour-plating on the combat vehicles too has seen numerous upgrades over the decades, As lethal they are for their enemies, they too have their nemesis.
Armour-piercing missiles have been making life miserable for most infantrymen, especially tankmen. Most modern Anti-Tank Guided Missiles have shaped charge high explosive warheads, designed specifically for penetrating armour.
Top-attack weapons such as the India's Nag, American Javelin and the Swedish Bill are designed to focus the explosion down through an armoured fighting vehicle's thinner turret-roof or upper-hull armour.
Nag (India)
The Nag is a third-generation (Gen-3), 'fire-and-forget' missile; once it is fired, its seeker automatically guides the missile to even a fast-moving tank. In earlier-generation missiles an operator had to guide it all the way, often exposing himself to enemy fire.
Nag missile operators search for enemy tanks through thermal imaging telescopes, which see as well by night as they do by day.
Picking up a tank, the operator locks the Nag's seeker onto the target. A digital snapshot of the target is automatically taken, which serves as a reference image.
As the Nag streaks towards the target, at 230 metres per second, the seeker takes repeated snapshots of the target; each one is compared with the reference image, and deviations are translated through on-board algorithms into corrections to the Nag's control fins, which steer the missile precisely at the target.
Maximum effective range: 4 km (Guidance mode: IIR (Imaging infra-red)), 7 km for air-launched variant
BILL 2 (Sweden)
The BILL 2 missile was designed upon the original BILL 1 Anti-tank guided weapon that has been in the service of the Swedish Army since 1988.
The BILL 2 comes with one 10.5 kg missile, a launching tube, tripod with x7 magnification day sight, and one thermal imaging sight. The missile uses OTA or Overfly Top Attack to attack its target.
The missile flies towards the target on a standard horizontal trajectory, but rather than directly hitting the target head on, it overflies it, detonating its warhead on top of an armoured vehicle, where the armour is usually lighter.
It also utilises additional guidance accuracy via the installed rate gyro, which monitors the tracking movement of the launcher. It is designed primarily to attack armoured or unarmoured vehicles, but can also be used to attack helicopters or soft ground targets, such as light buildings.
The missile system is effective against both static and moving targets with an effective range of 150m to 2,200m. Flight time at maximum range is 13 seconds
M93 Hornet (US)
The M93 Hornet is an anti-tank off-route munition made of lightweight material (35 pounds) that one person can carry and employ.
The Hornet is a non-recoverable munition that is capable of acquiring targets by using sound and motion detection methods.
When the mine detects a suitable target in range, the mine turns to face the target and elevates the submunition launcher to the correct angle. The submunition is then fired in the direction of the target using a gas generator.
Once the Hornet is armed and the self-test is performed, the munition will remain active until its self-destruct (SD) time expires or until it is encountered. The SD time (4 hours, 48 hours, 5 days, 15 days, or 30 days) is determined by the user. The munition will self-detonate after the SD time has expired.
Hornet munitions have an employed life of 60 days in the pre-armed mode (remote arming) and 30 days in the armed mode. If the temperature exceeds 100 degree Fahrenheit, the employed life drops to 15 days in the pre-armed mode and 30 days in the armed mode. Its standoff distance is up to 100 meters from the deployment site
MBT LAW (Sweden)
The MBT LAW is a man-portable, fire and forget, disposable weapon consisting of an anti-tank missile sealed within a launch tube.
The MBT LAW has been designed to counter main battle tanks at short ranges as well as buildings, fortifications and non-armoured vehicles. The weapon features a single shaped charge detonated by magnetic and optical sensors striking downward at 90-degree.
It only weighs less than 12 kg and is absolutely free of maintenance. The weapon operator must track the target during 2-3 seconds before the launch.
During that time the guidance control system of the MBT LAW calculates the foreseeable position of the target. The weapon can be launched at 45-degree upward/downward.
Once launched, the projectile follows top-attack or direct attack profile according to pre-launch settings.
Max Range: 600 m, Minimum Range 20 m, Top Speed 200 mps
SPIKE (Israel)
Rafael, based in Haifa, Israel, manufactures the Spike family of anti-armour weapons. The weapons are lightweight fire-and-forget anti-tank missiles and use electro-optical and fibre-optic technologies.
The weapon consists of the missile in its canister and the firing post comprising a command launch unit, thermal imager and firing post. The operator can maintain tracking and update aim points while the missile is in flight, and even change targets in mid-flight. SPIKE is quick, too.
Utilising the fiber-optic communications link, the Spike missile can also get target and guidance updates during the flight. The Spike Family consists of missiles suited for several platforms, multiple ranges and a variety of targets.
In fire-and-forget mode, the soldier activates the missile, locking the tracker on the target and pushes the fire button to launch. The missile automatically propels itself towards the target without any additional interaction and this fire-and-forget capability allows the soldier the option of relocating to a new firing position or to reload immediately for the next engagement.
Type 01 LMAT (Japan)
The Type 01 LMAT is a Japanese man-portable fire-and-forget anti-tank missile.
The missile guidance system, infrared detection is nested and launchers that carry the equivalent weight is 17.5 kg and also for applying and firing a single missile is enough soldiers.
Similar to other modern anti-tank missiles, it is a deadly weapon feared by armoured vehicles crewmen.
At the speed of 4 Kilometers per minutes, it delivers an accurate point fire out over several kilomoters with its Infrared homing guidance system.
Since 2001, the Type 01 LMAT is into service with the Japan Self Defence Forces.
OMTAS (Turkey)
OMTAS has a maximum range of 4km and is fitted with a nose-mounted imaging infrared seeker and a tandem HEAT warhead.
It has fire-and-forget and fire-and-update modes and can be launched from a confined space.
The OMTAS has the following capabilities:
1) Lock-on before and after launch
2) Can be used in day or night and in adverse weather conditions
3) Tandem warhead, effective against reactive armours
4) Insensitive munition characteristics against liquid fuel fire and bullet hits Communication of seeker image to the user and command by user using Data Link.
