In countering Russian tank attacks, Ukraine was supplied with weapons from western countries in the form of anti-tank missiles. How does it work?
So far there have been thousands of anti-tank missiles sent to Ukraine by the United States and European countries such as Britain, Germany, Denmark, and France. Missiles from America are Javelin and other countries supply the Next Generation Light Antitank Weapons (NLAWs).
Each missile costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, aka expensive, but still much cheaper than the price of the Russian tank being targeted. Basically, every modern anti-tank missile is a single-use launcher-launched missile.
As quoted by us from Yahoo, the launcher has a special computer to determine the target, in this case it is a weak point in the body of a tank. Even the computer that does 95% of the work, the army just fires anti-tank missiles.
The tank's weak point is usually the part between the dome and the main body of a tank. Missiles can target this area and if hit, can immediately disable the tank.
Javelin missiles are fired into the air before dive into the target and can cover a longer distance than NLAWs, which is 4.5 kilometers versus 1 kilometer.
It weighs about 12 kilograms and can be carried by only one soldier. Once the missile is launched, the launcher can no longer be used.
It seems that the supply of anti-tank missiles was very helpful for Ukraine and inflicted quite a bit of damage on Russian tanks. Various kinds of videos circulated showing Russian tanks damaged by the missiles. Ukraine itself claims to have damaged about 465 Russian heavy vehicles since the start of the war.