List of man-portable anti-tank systems

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The following is a list of MANPATS.

Three main categories of MANPATS are in use, which are split into the following lists.

  1. Rocket launchers launch unguided self-propelled projectiles.
  2. Recoilless weapons launch unguided projectiles. They are accelerated by ejecting a counter-mass, such as a propellant gas, from the weapon's rear. There are two categories of recoilless weapons:
    • Recoilless rifles have a rifled barrel and use spin stabilised projectiles (example: Carl Gustav 8.4 cm)
    • Recoilless guns are smoothbore and shoot fin stabilised projectiles (examples: AT4, MATADOR RGW 90)
  3. Anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM)

Modern era MANPATS

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List of rocket launchers that entered service after the end of the Cold War (since 1990).

More information System name, Manufacturers and designers ...
System name Manufacturers and designers Image Origin Use In service since Warhead calibre Notes
Rocket launchers
MARA CITEFA /

Fray Luis Beltrán munition factory

Thumb  Argentina Disposable 2005 78 mm [1]
PF-89 Norinco

(China North Industries Corporation)

Thumb  China Disposable 1993 80 mm 5 warheads (HEAT, incendiary, HESH, HEAT tandem, HEAT/thermobaric tandem)[2][3]
Panzerfaust 3 Dynamit Nobel AG Thumb  Germany Reusable 1997 110 mm Development started in 1978

[4]

M90 Stršljen

/ RBR 120

Sloboda Thumb  Macedonia Serbia Disposable 2002 120 mm [5]
M72E5 LAW Nammo Raufoss AS in cooperation with Talley Defense (absorbed into Nammo in 2007) Thumb  Norway
 United States
Disposable 1983[6] 66 mm Many variants in continuous production[7]
Yasin (RPG) Hamas  Palestine Reusable 2004 85 mm It is a variant of the RPG-2[8]
MRO NPO Bazalt Thumb  Russia Disposable 2003 72.5 mm Further evolution of the RPO-A Shmel

Variants:

  • MRO-A (thermobaric)
  • MRO-O (WP Smoke warhead),
  • MRO-Z (Incendiary warhead)

[9]

RPG-28 NPO Bazalt Thumb  Russia Disposable 2011 125 mm [10]
RPG-30 NPO Bazalt Thumb  Russia Disposable 2013 105 mm [11]
RPG-32 Barkas NPO Bazalt  Russia Reusable 2012 72.5 mm /

105 mm

JADARA is producing it as well under license.

[12]

RShG-2 "Agleni-2", or

6G31

NPO Bazalt Thumb  Russia Disposable 2003 72.5 mm Evolution to the RPG-26, using a larger warhead, and a derivative of the TBG-7V thermobaric rocket for the RPG-7[13]
Alcotán-100 (M2) Instalaza SA Thumb  Spain Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1998 100 mm Variants[14]
  • ALCOTAN-AT (M2) munition: Anti-tank behind ERA
  • ALCOTAN-BIV (M2) munition: Dual purpose (anti-armour + fragmentation)
  • ALCOTAN-ABK (M2) munition: Anti-bunker
  • ALCOTAN-MP (M2) munition: Multi-purpose, three different modes (impact, impact delay, and airburst)
CS-70 Instalaza SA  Spain Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2023 72 mm
C90-CR (M3) Instalaza SA Thumb  Spain Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1990 90 mm Warhead variants:[15]
  • CR (M3) – hollow-charge warhead
  • CR-RB (M3 / M3.5) – hollow-charge warhead
  • CR-AM (M3.5) – shaped charge warhead with anti-personal fragmentation
  • CR-FIM (M3.5) – incendiary and smoke, red phosphorus
  • CR-BK (M3.5) – tandem warhead against bunkers, buildings, fortifications,
  • CR-IN (M3) – training inert warhead
Kestrel NCSIST Thumb  Taiwan Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2015 110 mm Variants:[16]
  • HEAT
  • HESH
  • Long Range
  • Guided missile in development based on Kestrel
PSRL-1 AirTronicUSA Thumb  United States Reusable 2017 93 mm American RPG-7, warhead variants:
  • SR-H1 HEAT
  • SR-T1 and SR-T2 training

[17]

VE-NILANGAL

Ve-Nilangal [es]

CAVIM  Venezuela 72 mm
Recoilless rifles
Carl Gustaf M4 Saab Bofors Dynamics Thumb  Sweden Reusable 2014 84 mm [18]
Recoilless guns
PF-98 Norinco

(China North Industries Corporation)

Thumb  China Reusable 1998 120 mm Successor of the Type 78 in the PLA[19][20]
RGW 60 Dynamit Nobel AG Thumb  Germany Disposable 60 mm 4 warheads HEAT, HEAT MP (Multi-Purpose), HESH, ASM (Anti Structure Munition)[21]
RGW 90 MATADOR Dynamit Nobel AG

DSTA

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems

Thumb  Germany
 Israel
 Singapore
Disposable 2000 90 mm [22]
RGW 110 Dynamit Nobel AG  Germany Disposable 2023 110 mm Hungary, first client of this weapon, contract 2022[23][24]
Anti-tank guided missiles
Shershen CJSC SRPC,

JSC Peleng.

Kyiv Design Bureau "Luch"

Thumb  Belarus
 Ukraine
Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2012 130 mm

152 mm

Belarus licensed variants of Stugna-P / Skif[25]
MSS-1.2 SIATT  Brazil
 Italy
Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2009 127 mm OTO Melara initially co-developed the missile, starting in 1985, but withdrew from the program and ceded its share[26]
HJ-12 Red Arrow Norinco

(China North Industries Corporation)

Thumb  China Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2021 130 mm [27]
Eryx Aérospatiale then,

MBDA France now

Thumb  France Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1993 136 mm [28]
Akeron MP MBDA France
Saab Bofors Dynamics Switzerland
Thumb  France
  Switzerland
Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2017 140 mm The missile design is French, the warhead is close to the one of the NLAW, developed and manufactured by Saab in Switzerland (former RUAG)

[29][30][31]

PARS 3 MR MBDA Deutschland,
Diehl BGT Defence
Thumb  Germany
 France
 United Kingdom
 Netherlands
Fire unit resuable, tube disposable Cancelled 159 mm France, the UK and the Netherlands withdrew from the common development program.[32]

Infantry variant therefore cancelled, only the PARS-3 LR variant used by German Army Tiger Helicopter.

Enforcer [de] MBDA Deutschland Thumb  Germany Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2024 90 mm A light guided missile, with some potential alternative variants are to be developed.[33]

TDW warhead.

Amogha missile Bharat Dynamics Limited  India Fire unit resuable, tube disposable In development 3 variants[34]
MPATGM DRDO

VEM Technologies

Thumb  India Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2023-4 120 mm [35][36]
Spike Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Thumb

Spike LR

 Israel Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 110 mm

130 mm

Multiple variants that are in this MANPATS category:
  • Mini-Spike
  • Spike SR
  • Spike MR
  • Spike LR / LR II
  • Spike ER / ER II
Teaser Israel Aerospace Industries  Israel Fire unit resuable, tube disposable In development [37]
Type 01 LMAT

(or XATM-5)

Defense Agency Technical Research and Development Institute

Kawasaki Heavy Industries

Thumb  Japan Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2001 140 mm [38]
Terminator Jadara EDS,

KADDB

 Jordan Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2020 107 mm Partnership with Azerbaijan in discussion[39]
Pirat PPK

Light ATGM

Kyiv Design Bureau "Luch",

Mesko,

CRW Telesystem-Mesko

Thumb  Poland
 Ukraine
Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2025 107 mm Ordered by Poland[40]
MOSKIT

Long range ATGM

Kyiv Design Bureau "Luch",

Mesko,

CRW Telesystem-Mesko

Thumb  Poland
 Ukraine
Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2025 Ordered by Poland[40]
9M133 Kornet Degtyarev plant,

KBP Instrument Design Bureau

Thumb  Russia Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1998 152 mm Five variants used (HEAT, thermobaric, or blast fragmentation warheads)[41]
AT-1K Raybolt Hanwha Defense

LIG Nex1

 South Korea Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2017 150 mm [42]
RBS 56 BILL 2 Saab Bofors Dynamics

RUAG

Thumb  Sweden
  Switzerland
Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1999 150 mm Major upgrade with OTA capacity with special warhead made by RUAG.[43]

Saab acquired the designer / manufacturer of the warhead in 2007 and maintained the activity locally.[44]

NLAW Saab Bofors Dynamics
Saab Bofors Dynamics Switzerland
Thales Air Defence UK
Thumb  Sweden
  Switzerland
 United Kingdom
Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2009 150 mm [45]
Karaok Roketsan  Turkey Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2022 125 mm [46][47]
OMTAS Roketsan Thumb  Turkey Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2017 160 mm [48]
Stugna-P Kyiv Design Bureau "Luch" Thumb  Ukraine Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2011 130 mm [49]
RK-3 Corsar Kyiv Design Bureau "Luch" Thumb  Ukraine Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2017 107 mm [50]
LMM Martlet Thales Air Defence Thumb  United Kingdom Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2021 76 mm Multi-role missile, usable against air targets, light boats, and armoured vehicles, laser guided. The anti-armour surface-to-surface variant isn't its primary role though[51]
FGM-148 Javelin Texas Instruments
Martin Marietta
(now Raytheon Technologies & Lockheed Martin)
Thumb  United States Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1996 127 mm [52]
FGM-172 SRAW Lockheed Martin Thumb  United States Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 2002 139 mm Only 960 produced, used by USA and Israel, remained 4 years in service[53]
Close-Combat Missile System – Heavy (CCMS-H)  United States Reusable 2032 BGM-71 TOW successor in development / selection[54]
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Cold War era MANPATS

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List of MANPATS that entered service during the Cold War (1946–1989).

More information System name, Manufacturers and designers ...
System name Manufacturers and designers Image Origin Use In service since Warhead calibre Notes
Rocket launchers
FHJ-84 Norinco

(China North Industries Corporation)

 China Reusable 1984 62 mm [55]
Type 69 RPG Norinco

(China North Industries Corporation)

Thumb  China Reusable 1970 85 mm
RPG-75 Zeveta a.s. Thumb  Czechoslovakia Disposable 1975 68 mm [56]
AC 300 Jupiter Luchaire SA
MBB
Thumb  France
 West Germany
Fire unit resuable, tube disposable Mid 1980s 115 mm A MILAN 2 warhead was mounted to an Armbrust launcher, but never placed in production

[57]

Dard 120 Societe Europeenne de Propulsion

(which became SNECMA)

 France Fire unit resuable, tube disposable Mid 1980s 120 mm Competition lost with the Jupiter 300 against the APILAS for a rocket launcher with more power than the LRAC F1.[58]

The French Army has used it, but more information is needed. Evolution of the DARD 90, very similar to LRAC F1.

LRAC F1 Luchaire SA /

Manufacture Nationale d'Armes de Saint-Etienne

Thumb  France Reusable 1972 89 mm [59]
LRAC 73 mm Modèle 1950 Thumb  France Reusable 1950 73 mm Development financed by the Marshall Plan[60]
SARPAC Hotchkiss-Brandt Thumb  France Disposable 1975 68 mm Limited production[61]
WASP 58 Luchaire SA  France Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1987 58 mm [62]
Panzerfaust 2 /Panzerfaust 44 mm Dynamit Nobel AG Thumb  West Germany Reusable 1963 44 mm HEAT warhead named Panzerfaustgeschoß DM32

[63]

OGMA 37mm OGMA[64]  Portugal Reusable 1962 37 mm 37mm SMEB rocket
ARIS IV Elliniki Biomihania Oplon  Greece Disposable Cancelled 113 mm [65]
B-300 Israel Military Industries Thumb  Israel Reusable 1980 82 mm [66]
RPG-76 Komar Zakład Sprzętu Precyzyjnego Thumb  Polish People's Republic Disposable 1985 40 mm

68 mm

[67]
RPG-2 Kovrov Mechanical Plant Thumb  Soviet Union Reusable 1949 82 mm [68]
RPG-7 NPO Bazalt and

ZiD

Thumb  Soviet Union Reusable 1961 40 – 105 mm Many variants of warheads in service[69]
RPG-16 NPO Bazalt  Soviet Union Reusable 1976 58.3 mm Used mostly by special forces[70]
RPG-18 NPO Bazalt Thumb  Soviet Union Disposable 1972 64 mm [71]
RPG-22 NPO Bazalt Thumb  Soviet Union Disposable 1985 72.5 mm [72]
RPG-26 NPO Bazalt Thumb  Soviet Union Disposable 1985 72.5 mm [73]
RPG-27 NPO Bazalt Thumb  Soviet Union Disposable 1989 105 mm [74]
RPG-29 NPO Bazalt Thumb  Soviet Union Reusable 1989 105 mm [75]
LAW 80 Hunting Engineering Thumb  United Kingdom Disposable 1987 94 mm [76]
FGR-17 Viper General Dynamics Thumb  United States Disposable 1983 70 mm Poor performance, few delivered, quickly cancelled, the Army requirements were the source of the result[77]
M202A1 FLASH Northrop Corporation (Electro-Mechanical Division) Thumb  United States Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1978 4 × 66 mm Multiple-barrel incendiary rocket launcher[78]
M72 LAW Talley Defense Systems Thumb  United States Disposable 1963 66 mm [79]
MK-153 (SMAW) McDonnell Douglas

Talley Defense Systems

 United States Reusable 1984 83 mm Derivative of IMI B-300[80]
M79 Osa

(RL-90 M95)

Sloboda Thumb  Yugoslavia Reusable launcher, disposable tube 1979 90 mm [81]
M80 Zolja Sloboda Thumb  Yugoslavia Disposable 1980 64 mm [82]
Recoilless rifles
Carl Gustaf M1 – M3 Saab Bofors Dynamics(at first, Carl Gustafs stads gevärsfaktori) Thumb  Sweden Reusable 1946 84 mm [18]
Miniman Saab Bofors Dynamics Thumb  Sweden Reusable 1968 74 mm [83]
RAK 74 "Raketenrohre NORA" Waffenfabrik Bern   Switzerland Reusable 1974 83 mm Project abandoned[84]
M40 recoilless rifle Watervliet Arsenal Thumb  United States Reusable 1955 105 mm [85]
Recoilless guns
APILAS"Armour Piercing Infantry Light Arm System" GIAT Thumb  France Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1985 112 mm Also known as "RAC 112" in the French Army.

120,000 produced by 2006.[86][87]

Armbrust Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm Thumb

Thumb

 West Germany Disposable 1978 67 mm [88]
RPO-A Shmel Tula (now KDB) Thumb  Soviet Union Disposable 1980s 93 mm [9]
AT4 Saab Bofors Dynamics Thumb  Sweden Disposable 1987 84 mm [89]
Raketenrohr 80 Société Anonyme Constructions Mécaniques du Léman (CML) Thumb   Switzerland Reusable 1980 83 mm [84]
Anti-tank guided missiles
Mathogo CITEFA Thumb  Argentina 1978 102 mm [90]
HJ-8 Norinco

(China North Industries Corporation)

Thumb  China Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1984 120 mm [91]
SS.10 Nord Aviation Thumb  France 1955 160 mm [92]
ENTAC DTAT

Aérospatiale

Thumb  France 1957 152 mm [92]
MILAN At first made by Euromissile (JV Aérospatiale and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG),

now MBDA

Thumb  France
 West Germany
Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1972 103 mm,

115 mm

Made under licence by Bharat Dynamics (India) and BAe Dynamics (United Kingdom)

[93]

MAPATS

(or "Hutra")

IMI Systems Thumb  Israel Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1985 156 mm [94]
Type 64 MAT

(or KAM-3)

Defense Agency Technical Research and Development Institute

Kawasaki Heavy Industries

Thumb  Japan 1964 120 mm [95]
Type 79 Jyu-MAT

(or KAM-9)

Defense Agency Technical Research and Development Institute

Kawasaki Heavy Industries

Daicel

Thumb  Japan Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1984 153 mm [96]
Type 87 Chū-MAT

(or Shin Chu-MAT)

Defense Agency Technical Research and Development Institute

Kawasaki Heavy Industries

Mitsubishi Motors

Thumb  Japan Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1989 110 mm [97]
ZT3 Ingwe Denel Dynamics Thumb  South Africa Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1987 127 mm [98]
9M14 Malyutka Tula Machinery Design Bureau (Tula KBP) Thumb  Soviet Union 1963 125 mm [99]
9K111 Fagot Tula Machinery Design Bureau (Tula KBP) Thumb  Soviet Union Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1970 120 mm [100]
9M113 Konkurs Tula Machinery Design Bureau (Tula KBP)Tulsky Oruzheiny Zavod Thumb  Soviet Union Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1974 135 mm [101]
9K115 Metis Tula Machinery Design Bureau (Tula KBP)Tulsky Oruzheiny Zavod Thumb  Soviet Union Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1982 94 mm [102]
RBS 56 BILL Bofors Thumb  Sweden Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1988 150 mm [43]
RB 53 Bantam Bofors Thumb  Sweden Reusable 1963 110 mm [103]
Cobra Contraves AG
Oerlikon,
Bölkow
Thumb   Switzerland
 West Germany
1957 100 mm Considered as most effective anti-tank missile in the 50s[104]
Mamba Contraves AG
Oerlikon,
Bölkow
Thumb   Switzerland
 West Germany
1957 120 mm [104]
Mosquito Contraves AG
Oerlikon,
Bölkow
Thumb   Switzerland
 West Germany
1964 120 mm Licensed produced in Italy (Contraves Italiana SpA)[105]
Vigilant Vickers Thumb  United Kingdom Reusable 1963 131 mm [106]
BGM-71 TOW Hughes Aircraft Company Thumb  United States Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1970 152 mm [107]
M47 Dragon Raytheon Thumb  United States Fire unit resuable, tube disposable 1975 127 mm [108]
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Second World War era rocket launchers

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List of rocket launchers that entered service during World War II (1939–1945).

More information System name, Manufacturers and designers ...
System name Manufacturers and designers Image Origin Use In service since Warhead calibre Notes
Rocket launchers
44M Buzogányvető Weiss Manfréd Factory Thumb  Hungary Reusable 1944 One of the most effective anti-tank weapon during WW2
Type 4 Unknown Thumb  Japan Reusable 1944 70 mm
PanzerschreckRaketenpanzerbüchse 54 Enzinger Union, HASAG and Jackel Thumb Thumb  Nazi Germany Reusable 1943 88 mm [109]
M1 Bazooka Several manufacturers over time Thumb  United States Reusable 1942 60 mm [110]
M20 Super bazooka Several manufacturers over time Thumb  United States Reusable 1945 89 mm [111]
Recoilless rifles
Carl Gustaf 20 mm recoilless rifle Carl Gustafs stads gevärsfaktori Thumb  Sweden Reusable 1942 20 mm [112]
Recoilless guns
Panzerfaust HASAG, Werk Schlieben Thumb  Nazi Germany Disposable 1942 100mm

106 mm 149 mm

[113]
Anti-tank missiles
X-7 Rotkäppchen [de] Ruhrstahl AG [de] ThumbX-7 missile based on air-to-air X-4 shown above, modifications on the tail, remote controlled  Nazi Germany Fire unit resuable 1945 150 mm First anti-tank missile, few reports of its use on the Eastern Front, but seems successful.[114]
Other category
PIAT Imperial Chemical Industries Thumb  United Kingdom Reusable 1942 83 mm [115]
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