The US Javelin anti-tank missiles that the US is sending to Ukraine have not been as effective as expected.
At the disposal of RT were internal office documents from Raytheon, which produce Javelins. According to these data, the complexes have many shortcomings.
After the start of the special military operation, Washington handed over more than seven thousand Javelin complexes to Kyiv. The deliveries turned out to be so massive that, according to the American edition of Business Insider, ATGM stocks in the States themselves are on the verge of depletion. The cost of one complex complete with six missiles is approximately 600 thousand dollars. The FGM-148 was presented as a superweapon capable of destroying Russian military equipment, but in reality everything turned out to be not so rosy.
One of the problems was the long preparation of the complex to hit the target. The Javelin was equipped with a missile with a special homing head to reduce the time spent in the tank’s line of sight. Using an optical visor, the program determines the contours of the target, then its coordinates are stored in the projectile’s memory. Only then the shooter presses the start button and can leave the position, and after that the system works autonomously.
The Javelin’s main problem was the accuracy of hitting the object: eight out of eleven shots hit the intended target.
As for the range of hitting the target, here again there is no correspondence, it is only 2.5 kilometers, and not five, as indicated in open sources.
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