What is the best anti-tank gun?

Javelin Missile
The Javelin is considered the world's best shoulder-fired anti-tank weapon and 12 nations currently operate the Javelin under foreign military sales from the US. Each missile weighs 11.8kg while its command launch unit (CLU) and round weigh 6.4kg and 15.9kg respectively.
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What is the strongest anti-tank gun?

The powerful PaK 40 was an effective weapon against most types of Allied tanks, including the Soviet T-34 and American Sherman. The weapon, along with the famous 88 mm, was considered one of the best anti-tank guns of the war.
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Which is the best anti-tank missile?

It is important to note that Javelins are the most capable and best known of the anti-tank weapon systems but not the most numerous.
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What weapons can stop a tank?

  • Tank destroyers.
  • Rifles.
  • Rockets and shaped charges.
  • Mines and other explosives.
  • Grenades.
  • Infantry close assault.
  • Suicide bombing.
  • Fixed-Wing.
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What is the best anti-tank round?

The most powerful anti-tank rocket of the RPG-7 is a PG-7VR 105 mm rocket with tandeam HEAT warhead. This rocket has effective range of 100 m against tanks and 200 m against stationary targets. It penetrates up to 600 mm of steel armor behind ERA and 750 mm without ERA.
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10 Most Powerful Anti-Tank Guided Missile Systems in the World



Can an RPG penetrate an Abrams tank?

Since most of the readily available RPG-7 rounds cannot penetrate M1 Abrams tank armor from almost any angle, it is primarily effective against soft-skinned or lightly armored vehicles, and infantry.
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What can destroy an Abrams tank?

The Abrams may be the world's toughest tank and can take a ton of abuse, but not this level of abuse. To put it simply, a main gun round from the Iowa-class battleship will destroy the Abrams easily.
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Can a laser destroy a tank?

The United States Defence Department has developed a prototype of an aircraft armed with a laser gun that could destroy tanks 10 miles away. The weapon is capable of destroying targets up to 15km (10m) away, according to Defense Update online magazine.
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Can artillery destroy tanks?

The new weapon represents an exponential leap beyond existing state-of-the art anti-tank weapons such as the TOW and Javelin missiles; the Javelin reaches ranges up to 2.5miles and the TOW missile can hit targets out to 3,000 meters.
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Can infantry defeat tanks?

Infantry can only fight tanks in close terrain. Use broken terrain, vegetation, and urban areas to deny enemy tanks their key advantages of mobility and standoff range.
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Can Javelin destroy Russian?

The lightweight but lethal weapon has allowed the soldiers in Ukraine to inflict some serious damage to Russian tanks and artillery, military experts have said. American journalist Jack Murphy who has been tracking the war in Ukraine said earlier this month that the Javelin missiles have a kill rate of 93 per cent.
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Can a Javelin destroy a tank?

Hundreds of burnt-out hulks can be seen across Ukraine, the end result of the Javelin missile. The missile was designed to explode over the top of a tank's armor, like the lightly armored top of the Russian Armata. This tank is armored with 500 centimeters of plate on its sides and front.
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Could a bazooka take out a tiger?

While Tigers might have been a rolling pillbox, it did have its weak points. I know for a fact that the bazooka could and would defeat the Tiger on a number of occasions, through veteran interviews, AARs, pictures (taking the captions for what they are worth..) and other write-ups. It was not 100%, but it did happen.
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Can a bazooka stop a tank?

The bazooka was a straightforward weapon. During World War II, it was simple enough for rifle squads to use, and its high-explosive rounds were powerful enough to destroy bunkers, light tanks and pillboxes.
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Do tanks have toilets?

Tanks do not have any bathroom facilities. First of all, there is no room for a toilet. Tank has to be concealed from the outside world, ideally, so tank's bathroom would have to have some sort of waste management system.
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Can a howitzer stop a tank?

The probably is you will have to have a battery which is 4 or 5 howitzers to really destroyed some tanks. The problem is you have to shoot couple shots to adjust your fire to hit the tank we called it "fire for effect".
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Can minigun destroy tank?

The A10's minigun is ineffective at killing modern main-battle tanks, so I wouldn't say it's a raging sucess. In addition, it would certainly be blown up immediately if it came within shooting distance of a tank by any number of man-portable anti-air missiles.
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What is the most powerful military laser?

The beam from the Advanced Test High Energy Asset, or ATHENA, is believed to be most powerful ever documented in a laser weapon. A 30KW high-power laser was showcased by Lockheed Martin.
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What can a 300 kilowatt laser do?

– U.S. Army aerial defense experts are asking industry to develop prototype 300-kilowatt laser weapons to protect soldiers and installations from rockets, artillery shells, mortar rounds; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, and even more stressing threats.
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Does the US have a laser weapon?

The February demonstration marked the first time the U.S. Navy used an all-electric, high-energy laser weapon to defeat a target representing a subsonic cruise missile in flight.
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Is T-14 better than Abrams?

The Hotcars.com report also says the T-14 is more powerful than rival tanks, writing “the T-14 sports the all-new 2A82-1M 125 mm (4.92 in) smoothbore cannon, replacing the older 2A46 125 mm gun of previous Russian and Soviet tanks.
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Can a t90 beat an Abrams?

Final Conclusion. The T-90A overpowers the M1A2 Abrams in speed, range and armor, but the M1A2 Abrams has a better engine. And the armament can be draw, because the T-90A main gun is autoloader and has an longer effective range than M1A2 Abrams, but the M1A2 Abrams secondary weapon carry a lot more than T-90A.
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Who has better tanks Russia or USA?

Overall the new Russian tank is on par with the US Abrams tank. In some areas it is slightly superior than the Abrams, however it has got no cutting-edge superiority. The Abrams has technical superiority in mobility and cross-country performance.
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