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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
by thunderbird120 4y 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 4y agoI 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 4y agoI'd like to think each missile comes with an instruction booklet illustrated in the same style as the pamphlets airlines have for evacuations.