How tanks can survive against cheap, shoulder-fired missiles
30 March 2022
Featured in The Economist
Anti-anti-tank weapons
The war in Ukraine shows the limitations of the soft-kill approach, says Jack Watling of the Royal United Services Institute, a think-tank in London. “You need a good technical understanding of the system you’re trying to defeat.” The potpourri of ATGMs fielded by Ukrainian soldiers comes with many different guidance systems. Jamming all of them is impossible.
