Double taps are a relatively recent tactic to defeat enemy armor defenses.
Just because a vehicle isn’t a tank doesn’t mean it can’t kill tanks. Thanks to guided missiles and anti-tank warheads, vehicles such as the new Bumerang fighting vehicle can stop tanks dead in their tracks—even if they have to use two missiles instead of one to do it.
The video below was taken at the Russia’s Army-2018 expo held every year outside Moscow. (Yes, it’s the same event that featured the giant, golden egg-shaped robot mockup.) At the 2:20 mark the video shows one of Russia’s new Bumerang 8x8 wheeled infantry fighting vehicles on the exercise grounds. While moving the Bumerang launches two Kornet EM anti-tank guided missiles in quick succession. The missiles zip downrange and impact against their target, an old 1960s-era T-62 tank.
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