Top attack
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A Top Attack device is designed to attack armoured vehicles from above and/or behind, as their armour is usually thinnest at the rear and the top. Ideally, it will penetrate at a 90 degree angle to the attacked surface.
The device may be delivered (often as a submunition) by a missile, artillery shell, or even an emplaced munition. Explosively formed penetrator warheads are often used due to their stand-off capability.
Weapon systems using top attack
- AGM-114 Hellfire (USA)
- BGM-71F TOW (USA)
- BILL 2 Anti-tank guided weapon (Sweden)
- BLU-108 (USA)
- CBU-97 (USA)
- FGM-148 Javelin (USA)
- KSTAM (South Korea)
- M93 HORNET mine (USA)
- MBT LAW (Sweden)
- Nag (India)
- SADARM (USA)
- Spike (Israel)
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