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https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastienroblin/2022/03/31/analysis-when-tank-busting-goes-wrong/?sh=74d451aa2228 https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastienroblin/2022

• pcbro141 5y ago
  > The NLAW may have a maximum range of 600 or even 800 meters, but it also has a minimum range of 20 meters. Below that range its fuse isn’t meant to go off. > So most likely, the lucky tank was actually too close for the NLAW to work as intended.
• abandonliberty 5y ago
  The NLAW has a single warhead, while the Javelin and Stugna have a tandem warhead designed to deactivate ERA first. Who knows how it works in practice. NLAW - 40k Javelin - 80k missile + 140k launcher Stugna - 20k missile
• thunderbird120 5y ago
  NLAW direct attack mode is intended for soft targets. Its shaped charge warhead points down at a 90 degree angle from the direction of flight. It is intended to detonate while the missile flies over the top of the tank shooting a jet hypersonic molten metal down into the most lightly armored part of the tank. If you use the direct attack mode against a tank it's probably not going to work much better than just throwing an equivalent amount of high explosive at the tank which usually won't do shit.
  • ALittleLight 5y ago
    I hope users know that mode as "Unarmored target mode". Knowing nothing about this I can imagine non-professional soldiers selecting "direct attack" because that sounds intuitively like a thing that would work against a tank.
    • robonerd 5y ago
      I'd like to think each missile comes with an instruction booklet illustrated in the same style as the pamphlets airlines have for evacuations.