Revealing the world's most powerful anti-tank missile

The ZT-6 Mokopa anti-tank missile was developed by South Africa's Denel Group as an alternative to the AGM-114 Hellfire after they were unable to purchase the weapon from the US due to embargo measures. However, the ZT-6's capabilities far surpass the AGM-114 in sophistication as well as other air-launched ATGMs in power.

The Mokopa has three types of guidance, including semi-active laser, infrared and active radar. They can all lock onto targets before or after launch.

In this, the semi-active laser seeker operates on the principle that the bullet is guided to the laser-designated target through a sensor window in the nose. This method has high accuracy, even at large distances, allowing simultaneous attacks using multiple consecutive missile launches.

However, laser indication also has disadvantages, which are the tendency for the beam to be blurred or blocked by smoke, dust, fog, clouds, etc., accompanied by an increase in anti-laser countermeasures and laser detection systems.

Next is an infrared version that allows Mokopa to detect heat from exhaust pipes, engines, or surfaces heated by the sun.

This type of guidance is completely passive, does not emit energy to indicate the target, allowing for multiple targets to be attacked at once in a "fire and forget" manner.

However, the infrared seeker will attack anything on the battlefield when the heat output is sufficient, without discrimination. It can be fooled by decoys and infrared jamming measures. More importantly, when the laser guidance has degraded, the infrared seeker is useless.

Finally, there is the ZT-6 Mokopa version, which is guided by active radar. This method is different from anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles, instead of simply flying along the radar reflection signal, the seeker will lock on to an object that reflects in 3D from the rest of the terrain.

This variant is also fire-and-forget, requiring no input from the operator other than target selection and missile launch, it is extremely difficult to jam like the above two variants and has proven to be the superior option.

Mokopa's warhead is a Tandem Shape Charge, which can penetrate 1,350 mm of Reactive Armor (RHA) behind explosive reactive armor (ERA), making Mokopa one of the most formidable anti-tank ammunition today and the most powerful missile in its class, far surpassing any Russian or American product.