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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 ]
It was phased out of U.S. military service in 2001, in favor of the newer FGM-148 Javelin system. [9] The M47 Dragon uses a wire-guidance system in concert with a high explosive anti-tank warhead and was capable of defeating armored vehicles, fortified bunkers, main battle tanks, and other hardened targets.
An RPG-29 and its PG-29V rocket with a tandem-charge warhead The self-guided FGM-148 Javelin missile has a tandem-charge warhead.. Tandem charges are effective against reactive armour, which is designed to protect an armoured vehicle (mostly tanks) against anti-tank munitions. [1]
A new, improved launch unit for the Javelin missile can do more than just launch the now-famous anti-tank missile: it can also launch anti-air Stinger missiles.The new Lightweight Command Launch ...
In this image taken from footage provided by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Press Service, a Ukrainian soldiers use a launcher with US Javelin missiles during military exercises in Donetsk region ...
The larger Switchblade could be fitted with an anti-tank warhead while having a longer range and costing less than anti-tank missiles like the FGM-148 Javelin. [57] [58] The Switchblade 600 was developed for the Army Single Multi-Mission Attack Missile development program.
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Akeron MP system on display (Dubai Airshow, 2021) The MMP programme originated in 2009 [7] to develop a successor to MBDA's forty-year old MILAN. This was particularly in response to a French urgent operational requirement which had also led to the purchase of the US-made Javelin in 2010, rather than additional MILAN missiles; [8] 260 Javelins were ordered because of the missile's fire-and ...