How the NLAW Anti-Tank Missile Auto Locks on Enemy Tanks

I have 2 questions about the NLAW that weren't answered: How does it work that the missile can fly 1 metre above the tank and explode, killing the tank? I've only ever seen missiles flying and hitting a target directly. I thought even with a shaped charge 1 metre away would lose too much energy, especially against ERA? Also, why can't the NLAW be reloaded? It has great sights and night vision, and you really just dump all that on the battlefield after one shot? Seems it would be many times cheaper and more efficient if it was designed to be reloaded, but I'm obviously missing something here.

i knew the internet historian had something to do with the NLAW that son of a gun

Islamic Middle East? Muslim Turks?

The in-laws what you get when you have a lot more friends than the other 😅😂

The downside it takes someone with an IQ of 160 to fire the thing😂

right its the swedes… as usual…
Who are surpriced…😂😂
right a fifth in cost for the javelin… same result, it just need some more guts in the ukranian operators underwear😂😂

NLAW...SAAB...keep up the good work...Seems that the NLAW works...Seems that the system works....Keep up the good work...make it better !

The world seems to be unsecure..even in europe nowadays...Keep up the good work...SAAB.....Probably world class...make it better !

Miss this thing from bf4

Now russia owns a lot of them for free 😅😅

Amazing bit of engineering.

HA I'm WAITING FOR THE " PUT MY FINGER" JOKE> ' Z ' GO PUTIN {:o)+--<

Now if only the missiles had speakers that blasted a bass boosted Rule Britannia during flight...

I wouldn't be surprised if the Russians were able to reverse-engineer the NLAW or even the Javelin. They were able to do so with the Sidewinder missile back in the Soviet era. And I'm sure the PRC would be more than willing to lend them a hand.

Fun little bit of history is how the USSR got their hands on a Sidewinder to study. During the Taiwan Crisis an AIM-9M fired by the Taiwanese air force embedded itself in a Chinese MiG after failing to detonate. The Chinese rushed the missile to the Soviets, who reverse-engineered the missile down to the part numbers. The Sidewinder's evil twin entered Soviet service as the R-3S and the rest, as they say, is history.

Saab also made a modified AT4 that could be fired from inside a building. They used saltwater to reduce the back back blast.

Ninguno le gana a los 5,000 metros de alcance del Kornet..

It's all about numbers, the cost is so low - relative to proven destructive ability - that if Ukraine is supplied with enough of them, Russia will simply run out if armour and other vehicle. So let's give more to Ukraine; writing from the UK it's, some of the best spending of my tax money. 👍

UK. Don't you mean American weapons and not 'some weapons'? UK Helicopters and APC's.

The only future with actual people involved in actual fighting is an IRON MAN Suit of personal armor and enhanced mobility and weapon carrying capacity. Large things like tanks as they are conceived of now have no future, though larger, more heavily protected (by many means) vehicles may be used instead for other purposes. AI/robot self-controlling weapons will become the main weapons of choice.

It took 75 years, but finally we got a 21st century PIAT!!

Interesting that it can be fired from concealment safely, like the WW2 British PIAT in that. Presumably they took that requirement to heart.

Tanks are rolling caskets....

Javelin and Nlaws are cheaper and excellent missiles to destroy enemies military vehicles so by thinking you can have a truck load of this and still have less price than a USA tank the Abrahms

Hey Cappy, keep an eye out if Ukraine doesn't pull another fast one on Russia, and the tanks it is using to engage Russia, having a certain "new" camouflage making them invisible to Russian orc. Boy Russia really lags in the area of ingenuity. or maybe Russian troops just don't give an "F" and don't want to be in Ukraine in the 1st place? You can only provide so much force to get your troops to fight before you are killing them off worse than the enemy. Something Russia seems to never grasp.

NLAW will never make MBTs obsolete but it will drive development of new countermeasures. I predict that there will be several more NLAW production lines popping up in the VERY near future. Investors take heed and get your chequebooks out. £$£$£$

10,000 x 24,000e = 240,000,000 euró. Expencive war. If they gave Ukraine 10,000, thats nearly half of what was produced.

it doesn’t autolock tho

So since soldiers give their weapons female names. I'd name this after the best inlaw ever, Lisa Ann 😍

Is there any effort to develop further the NLAW, using as much as possible of the current model? Such as a long ranged version or different programming to achieve a further improvements?

смотрел с машинным переводом. забавно, NLAW фигурировал как "закон конца".

quality tested on the Russian soldier. My thanks to the developers of this product. with love from Ukraine

That's a long way from the Dragon antitank "pray it hit anything" missile. Thank God for the brilliant people in Switzerland!

People may ask why the UK had lots in stock! as they get used in traning a lot! like you get to shoot 2! something the English are good at is training and using the real thing.. Had a friend used one to get back to base at night when there lights went out..

a future that follows Dune lore is best. blade to blade

it does not lock...
it IS a fancy rpg dumb unguided rocket with electronic stabilisation added nothing more..
it needs top down capability because 500mm direct hit penetration just too weak
it is an other hype...
not a bad missile but nothing really revolutionary chineese and russian rpg's 40 years ago did all this exept electronicly stabilized flight..

Everyone fears the Mother NLAW.

It's a nice weapon, but I have to laugh at some of this stuff. At this date Milley has declared Victory and is leaving, Lord Ratheon says we will send what ammo we can and poor Stolty is saying Nato cannot produce enough ammo. Super duper expensive weaponry is great. I love the technology of it. But those sort of gizmos only last a few months until tactics are found to counter or evade them. Simplest tactic in open ground would be to keep its target species just outside 800m. Thermal optics will make the poor bugger holding stand out like dogs balls and it game over. Have been watching some very good tactics in ukr urban fighting. Infantry give a tank location of a firing position. The tank comes out fast from behind cover of a building fires, backs into cover fast. The poor clown is hit somewhere between putting down an assault rifle or machine gun and picking up the inlaw.
Gizzmos ... good for low use insurgency warfare. But I like the tech.
All the man portable missile systems have their pros and cons. A good all rounder that can be produced cheaply in large numbers is the one to go for.

What if it is snowing? Or a smoke courtain?

How does it calculate the distance to target? Does it laser range it?

Russians can’t even make a decent camera so reverse engineering in quantity is not likely

Has anyone thougth about putting Javelins and NLAW in vertical launch packs for vehicles but still be able to be used individually?

It's a peace of 💩💩💩. Ask for 🇺🇦

BS

I would imagine that china and Russia didnt imagine they needed these because they envisage themselves being the ones with the tanks, while NATO probably expected to be the ones using infantry to defend against tanks.

Brilliant clip and very informative.

Lol he did say SAAB there a major defense contractor which makes this NLAW ...thought 💭🤔 they just made funny looking cars not armor killing rocket systems and God knows what else's.

What about the type 90 or type 99 tanks. They are also auto loading

A few years ago our marine corps got rid of their tanks. I thought this was a bad idea but what did I know