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Drakon, used with the IT-1missile tank that saw very little service. Taifun, a prototype missile that never saw production. 3M6 Shmel(AT-1 Snapper) 3M11 Falanga(AT-2 Swatter) 9M14 Malyutka(AT-3 Sagger) 9M111 Fagot(AT-4 Spigot) 9M112 Kobra(AT-8 Songster) – fired through smoothbore tank gun tubes of T-64and T-72tanks.
Man-portable launcher. The FGM-148 Javelin, or Advanced Anti-Tank Weapon System-Medium (AAWS-M), is an American-made man-portable anti-tank system in service since 1996, and continuously upgraded. It replaced the M47 Dragon anti-tank missile in US service. [11] Its fire-and-forget design features automatic infrared guidance, allowing the user ...
Anti-tank warfare originated during World War I from the desire to develop technology and tactics to destroy tanks. After the Allies deployed the first tanks in 1916, the German Empire introduced the first anti-tank weapons. [ 1] The first developed anti-tank weapon was a scaled-up bolt-action rifle, the Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr, that fired a 13.2 ...
Baktar-Shikan Man portable Anti tank Guided Weapon. An anti-tank missile (ATM), anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW), or anti-armour guided weapon is a guided missile primarily designed to hit and destroy heavily armoured military vehicles. ATGMs range in size from shoulder-launched weapons, which can be transported ...
Recoilless weapons launch unguided projectiles. They are accelerated by ejecting a counter-mass, such as a propellant gas, from the weapon's rear. There are two categories of recoilless weapons: Recoilless rifles have a rifled barrel and use spin stabilised projectiles (example: Carl Gustav 8.4 cm)
Self-propelled anti-tank guns are anti-tank guns mounted on vehicles. Sometimes lightly armored, and often fitted into a turret, they are nonetheless not tanks or assault guns and simply enhance the mobility of anti-tank guns. They are also capable of providing direct fire support.
Anti-tank weapons are designed to target enemy armored vehicles—in particular, tanks—and destroy them. Subcategories This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total.
An anti-tank guided missile ( ATGM ), anti-tank missile, anti-tank guided weapon ( ATGW) or anti-armor guided weapon is a guided missile primarily designed to hit and destroy heavily armored military vehicles. ATGMs range in size from shoulder-launched weapons, which can be transported by a single soldier, to larger tripod-mounted weapons ...