NLAW

The NLAW, an acronym for Next generation Light Anti-tank Weapon, is a shoulder-fired, disposable anti-tank missile jointly developed by Sweden and the United Kingdom and brought into service in 2009, designed to give a single infantryman a lightweight, man-portable weapon capable of defeating modern armored vehicles at short to medium range. It uses a predicted line of sight guidance system, in which the operator tracks the moving target briefly before firing so the missile's onboard system can calculate and follow the target's path, and it is capable of firing either directly at a target or in an overfly top-attack mode that strikes the thinner armor on top of a vehicle. The weapon drew wide international attention and was credited with inflicting significant losses on Russian armored vehicles during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, after Western nations supplied large numbers of NLAW systems to Ukrainian forces, bringing the weapon prominent contemporary public recognition beyond its original design specifications.