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Konkurs
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Konkurs

A wire-guided missile that requires its operator to hold the crosshair on a tank for the whole flight — up to four kilometres, several seconds, motionless. In a battlefield watched continuously by drones, that is the hardest thing a soldier can be asked to do.

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RussiaPro

RPG-7

A 1961 shoulder-fired launcher that found a second career nobody designed: its PG-7 shaped-charge warhead is the standard payload on FPV attack drones, which means most drone kills in this war are delivered by RPG ammunition.

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UkrainePro

Stugna-P

Ukraine's home-built tank-killer — a tripod ATGM with one defining trick: the crew fires it by cable from up to 50 m away, in cover, while the launcher sits exposed. Cheaper than a Javelin, it became famous for killing tanks and, on video, shooting down Russian helicopters.

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EuropePro

NLAW

Shoulder-fired, single-use anti-tank missile with overfly top-attack and fire-and-forget PLOS guidance — the weapon that defined Ukraine's close-quarters tank-killing in 2022.

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ChinaPro

HJ-12

China's man-portable, fire-and-forget anti-tank guided missile — a Javelin-class top-attack system with imaging-infrared guidance, a tandem HEAT warhead, and no confirmed combat use.

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RussiaPro

Kornet

Russia's primary man-portable anti-tank guided missile — a SACLOS laser-beam-rider with a tandem-HEAT warhead, fielded since 1998 and exported widely to over 20 countries and non-state actors.

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USAPro

Javelin

The FGM-148 Javelin is a man-portable fire-and-forget top-attack anti-tank guided missile — a Raytheon–Lockheed Martin joint venture, the symbolic anti-armor weapon of the war in Ukraine, and the NATO-standard infantry ATGM fielded by more than 20 operators worldwide.