At present, the United States and britain are still donating five carats to light anti-tank missiles, Queqi said, it is the "Javelin" and THELAW, these two light anti-tank missiles are portable weapons, with post-launch and summit capabilities, in theory, a lethal threat to Russian tanks. Even so, due to factors such as limited numbers and lack of protection of the launch teams, these advances could not change the balance of power between the Russian and Ukrainian armies, especially in the field, and could not even slow down the impact of the Russian heavy armored troops with super firepower advantages.
In contrast, the Ukrainian army still lacks sufficient anti-tank weapons, especially high-powered anti-tank missiles such as the Russian-made "Troë". The Soviet-era anti-tank missiles equipped by the Ukrainian army have not only expired, but also can not deal with the upgraded Russian tanks, the Ukrainian military industry has also developed several light anti-tank missiles, but it is OK to deal with infantry fighting vehicles, and there is nothing that can be done against main battle tanks. It can be said that the current Ukrainian army is very short of weapons, especially anti-tank weapons, which is the main reason why the United States and Britain continue to supply anti-tank missiles to it.
Recently, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense released a video showing the various types of anti-tank weapons used by the Ukrainian army, including the unique MT-12R 100 mm smoothbore anti-tank gun, compared with other models in the series, the gun is equipped with a small gun sight radar with a range of 3 km, which can effectively search for targets such as tanks in motion in bad weather and at night, and automatically calculate the relevant shooting parameters.
As an anti-tank gun equipped in the early 1960s, technically, the MT-12 "light sword" soon became obsolete and was quickly replaced by anti-tank missiles, but to this day, this "obsolete" anti-tank gun is still in service with the armies of Russia and other countries. In addition to firing armor-piercing, armor-piercing and grenades, the "Light Sword" can also launch semi-active laser-guided anti-tank missiles, but it is difficult to say whether the Ukrainian army has enough supporting anti-tank missiles.
It is worth noting that the rate of fire of the "light sword" is very fast, 14 rounds / min, and when firing grenades, its maximum range is 15 kilometers, which is also the main factor for the Russian and Ukrainian armies to retain this old anti-tank gun: to provide fire support for the subordinate troops, the fire support battalion equipped with each mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian army, in addition to heavy mortars and rockets, is the MT-12 anti-tank gun, which does not seem to be equipped with a complete anti-tank missile unit.
And if it were to be put into anti-tank combat, it would be very unoptimistic. According to the experience of World War II, anti-tank guns with difficult maneuverability can only get the opportunity to shoot at tanks if they are well camouflaged, and once the gun is fired, its position is often exposed, and there is often no opportunity to fire a second gun, which is also the fundamental reason for the high casualty rate of anti-tank artillery.