Every Type of Anti Tank Missile Explained

Anti-tank guided missiles have evolved from weapons that forced a gunner to manually fly the missile to modern ATGMs capable of finding, tracking, and attacking targets with infrared, radar, or networked guidance. This video explains the major types of anti-tank missile guidance, including MCLOS, SACLOS wire guidance, radio command, laser beam riding, semi-active laser homing, electro-optical man-in-the-loop control, imaging infrared fire-and-forget, millimeter-wave radar, multimode seekers, predicted line of sight, and non-line-of-sight systems. It also breaks down direct attack, diving top attack, overfly top attack, single and tandem HEAT warheads, multipurpose missiles, man-portable and vehicle-mounted systems, and the countermeasures designed to defeat them. Along the way, systems including TOW, MILAN, Kornet, Hellfire, Spike, Javelin, and NLAW show why ATGM development is not a simple ladder from primitive to advanced. Each design makes different tradeoffs between range, cost, operator involvement, seeker capability, survivability, and target protection. CHAPTERS 0:00 What Counts as an Anti-Tank Missile? 1:26 MCLOS Missiles 4:41 SACLOS Wire-Guided Missiles 8:19 Radio Command SACLOS 10:20 Laser Beam-Riding Missiles 12:59 Semi-Active Laser Homing 15:22 Electro-Optical & Man-in-the-Loop 18:34 Imaging Infrared Fire-and-Forget 21:36 Millimeter-Wave Radar Missiles 23:34 Dual-Mode & Multimode Seekers 25:13 Predicted Line of Sight 27:46 Direct-Attack Missiles 29:16 Diving Top-Attack Missiles 30:58 Overfly Top Attack 32:22 Single HEAT Warheads 33:40 Tandem HEAT Missiles 35:20 Multipurpose Anti-Tank Missiles 36:48 Short-Range Man-Portable Missiles 38:16 Long-Range Vehicle-Mounted ATGMs 39:52 Non-Line-of-Sight ATGMs 42:10 The Guidance Spectrum 44:15 The Countermeasure Problem 46:09 Why Old ATGMs Still Matter 47:51 The Modern Anti-Tank Missile Which guidance system do you think offers the best balance between cost, range, operator control, and fire-and-forget capability? #MilitaryTechnology #AntiTankMissile #ATGM