Top attack
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A top attack device is designed to attack armoured vehicles from above as a form of plunging fire, as the armour is usually thinnest at the top. Ideally, it will penetrate perpendicular to the attacked surface. The device may be delivered (often as a submunition) by a missile, artillery shell, or even an emplaced munition. Top attack munitions use either a high explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warhead for direct impact or near impact, or an explosively formed penetrator (EFP) warhead for over-flight of the target.
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)
- PARS 3 LR (Germany)
- FGM-148 Javelin (USA)
- KSTAM (South Korea)
- M93 HORNET mine (USA)
- MBT LAW (Sweden)
- Nag (India)
- SADARM (USA)
- Spike (Israel)
- Type 01 LMAT (Japan)
- OMTAS (Turkey)
- Griffin LGB (Israel)
- SMArt 155 (Germany)
- HJ-12 (China)
- Stugna-P (Ukraine)
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