An Anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) or weapon (ATGW) is a guided missile primarily designed to hit and destroy tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles. ATGMs range in size from small shoulder-launched portable weapons, to very large vehicle- or aircraft-mounted missiles capable of defeating the heaviest tank armour.

Command guided missiles are guided manually (MCLOS) or semi-automatically (SACLOS). Guidance commands are sent to the missile through wires or radio. More advanced guidance systems rely on laser marking or a TV camera view from the nose of the missile, and some of the latest models are "fire-and-forget" and even "fire-and-fix".

Most ATGMs have shaped-charge HEAT warheads, designed specifically for penetrating armour. Double-warhead missiles attempt to defeat very heavy or spaced vehicle armour. Top-attack weapons are designed to focus the explosion down through an AFV's thinner top armour.

Countermeasures against ATGMs include spaced, perforated, and composite armour, explosive reactive armour (ERA), jammers like the Russian Shtora, and active protection systems (APS) like Drozd and Arena.

Anti-tank weapons like Bazookas and RPGs are not considered ATGMs since they don't have any guidance system.


List of anti-tank guided missiles


International
MILAN
HOT
Trigat


China
HJ-8
HJ-9
HJ-13
HJ-73


France
Entac
Eryx
SS.10
SS.11


India
Nag Missile (Cobra)


Israel
Rafael's SPIKE family
SPIKE-SR (short range)
SPIKE-MR (medium range) Gil
SPIKE-LR (long range)
SPIKE-ER (extra long range) - can be fitted on helicopter gunships
Orev (upgraded Tow)


Japan
MAT-1 Type-64
MAT-2 Type-79
MAT-3 Type-87
MAT-4 Type-96
ATM-5


Pakistan
Bakter-Shikan


Soviet Union/Russia
AT-1 Snapper (Soviet industrial designation 3M6 Shmel)
AT-2 Swatter (3M11 Falanga)
AT-3 Sagger (9M11 Malyutka)
AT-4 Spigot (9M111 Fagot)
AT-5 Spandrel (9M113 Konkurs)
AT-6 Spiral (9M114 Shturm)
AT-7 Saxhorn (9M115 Metis)
AT-8 Songster (9M112 Kobra), fired through smoothbore tank gun tubes of T-64B and T-72
AT-9 Spiral-2 ((M114M Ataka)
AT-10 Stabber (9M116 Bastion)
AT-11 Sniper (9M120 Refleks/Svir), fired through smoothbore tank gun tubes. Svir on later T-64BV, T-72BM, and T-72S; Refleks on T-80, T-90, and Ukrainian T-84
AT-12 Sheksna (9M118 Sheksna)
AT-13 Metis-M (9M131 Metis-M)
AT-14 Kornet (9M133 Kornet)
AT-15 Khrizantema (9M123 Khrizantema)
AT-16 Vikhr (9M114 Vikhr)


United Kingdom
Malkara missile
Swingfire
Brimstone (air-launched)
Vickers Vigilant


United States
M47 Dragon
Javelin
TOW
AGM-114 Hellfire