Tucson-based Raytheon Missiles & Defense has won contracts ... armor-penetrating warhead. First fielded in 1996, the Javelin has been incrementally upgraded and is in use by the U.S. Army and ...

The FGM-148 Javelin has earned its reputation as the world’s premier man-portable anti-tank missile. With its fire-and-forget ...

Doha – Morocco is set to purchase 612 Javelin missiles and 200 launch units ... an advanced tandem warhead and imaging infrared seeker, target lock-on before launch, and soft launch from ...

A Block 1E model Javelin missile with a standard (live) warhead being fired from a LWCLU during a test on Salisbury Plain in the UK in May 2025. (RTX) The British Army successfully engaged a ...

From its sophisticated infrared seeker to its dual-stage warhead, the Javelin missile exemplifies the evolution of anti-tank warfare. With a fire-and-forget guidance system, vectored thrust ...

The Javelin missile is a man-portable, fire-and-forget, infrared-guided weapon with a range of up to 2.5 miles (4 km), designed with a tandem high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warhead to defeat modern ...

And while the Javelin operator needs to see the target to lock the missile on, FPVs can be flown into an area of known or suspected targets from the other side of a hill. Smaller warheads mean it ...

The missile has foldable wings and can strike targets from the front or above, where it gains altitude before descending on the target. Combined with a powerful tandem-charge warhead, these features ...

For example, to disassemble the FGM-148 Javelin ATGM in order to remove the warhead and equip an FPV drone with it. The Fatum unit of the 3rd Assault Brigade's anti-tank battalion did this by filming ...

The U.S. Army assigned the largest single-year production order to date for the shoulder-mounted anti-tank Javelin missile system. Working as joint-venture partners, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have ...

10 The Javelin measures roughly 1.2 m in length, 127 mm in diameter, and weighs 22.1 kg, with some minor differences depending on the variant. The missile carries a single 8.4 kg tandem-charge, ...

The Javelin Missile System is equipped with an imaging infrared seeker and tandem warhead. “The Army, along with industry partners, are striving to shorten the production lead time associated ...