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The Javelin missile's tandem warhead is a high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) type. [11] This round utilizes an explosive shaped charge to create a stream of superplastically deformed metal, formed from trumpet-shaped metallic liners. The result is a narrow high velocity particle stream that can penetrate armor.
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]
Javelin is a British man-portable surface-to-air missile, formerly used by the British Army and Canadian Army. It can be fired from the shoulder, or from a dedicated launcher named the Lightweight Multiple Launcher (LML), that carries three rounds, and can be vehicle mounted.
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.
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 ...
The Javelin has several modes of flight including direct and an overfly-top-attack mode in which the missile arcs high then flies down onto the top of the target, thus getting around the heavy front armour of modern tanks. Javelin warheads are also highly effective at taking out buildings, bunkers and fixed positions.
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 ...
It is designed to complement the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile. The Predator had a longer range and was more powerful than the AT4 that it was designed to replace, but had a shorter range than the Javelin. The missile system received the FGM-172 designation from the United States Department of Defense in 2006.