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Light Anti-tank Weapons

Light anti-tank weapons are portable, shoulder-fired weapons designed to destroy or disable armored vehicles. They typically use a shaped charge warhead, which creates a focused jet of hot gas when detonated and can penetrate the armor of a tank or other armored vehicle. Light anti-tank weapons are typically small and lightweight, making them easy to carry and operate by infantry soldiers.

Light anti-tank weapons are designed to take out the tracks to disable a tank or hit it in the rear to try and disable the engine (unless you have a Merkava, where the engine is in the front and extremely well protected). It probably won’t destroy the main battle tank (MBT), but it can knock it out of the fight for a while.

Soldier holding an RPG-30 shoulder-fired rocket launcher in a field

RPG-30: A single-use anti-tank rocket launcher designed to defeat active protection systems

The RPG-30 is a disposable anti-tank rocket launcher developed from the RPG-27. This weapon was designed to defeat active protection … Read More

Bosnian soldiers aiming with M79 Osa through the broken window of the bus

M79 Osa: A most popular rocket launcher in the Yugoslav wars

The M79 Osa is a reloadable anti-tank rocket launcher. It is a simple but relatively accurate and powerful anti-tank weapon … Read More

ATGM Stugna-P fires a missile

Stugna-P: Ukrainian analogue of Javelin ATGM

Stugna-P is a Ukrainian-made “counterpart” of the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank guided missile system. It is designed to destroy modern armored … Read More

A Javelin fired by U.S. soldier in Jordan during Eager Lion 2019

FGM-148 Javelin: A game changer in armored warfare

The FGM-148 Javelin is a state-of-art anti-tank weapon. It was introduced in service portable anti-tank missile system in 1996, and … Read More

British soldier armed with NLAW

NLAW: The ultimate tank killer

NLAW is a next-generation light anti-tank weapon developed in 2002 as a collaborative effort between Swedish and British defense contractors. … Read More

M80 zolja fired by Macedonian soldier during exercise (Photo: MyCity)

M80 Zolja: Similar to M72 LAW but with better accuracy and effective range

The M80 Zolja (Wasp) is an anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade launcher in 64mm caliber. It was designed by the Military Technical … Read More

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