Top-attack
A top attack weapon is designed to attack armored vehicles from above, to take advantage of the fact that the armour is usually thinnest on the top of an armoured vehicle. The device may be delivered as a smart submunition or a primary munition by an anti-tank guided missile , mortar bomb, artillery shell, or even an emplaced munition such as a mine. Top attack munitions use either a shaped charge warhead, or an explosively formed penetrator warhead fired while over the target.
The top attack concept was first put into service by the Swedish Armed Forces in 1988 with the Bofors RBS [56 BILL] top-attack anti-tank missile.
File:UA soldiers NLAW training 03.jpg|thumb|Ukrainian army soldiers fire the NLAW in training.
Another method of top attack is the overfly top-attack where a missile with a vertically oriented shaped charge jet that fires downwards. A missile is directed to overfly the vehicle where a sensor detects the vehicle, and detonates the shape charge down into the top of the vehicle. This is system employed with the NLAW man-portable ATGM.
Weapon systems using top attack
Notable weapon systems that utilize top attack include:| Weapon system | Type | Country of origin |
| AGM-114 Hellfire | air-to-ground ATGM | |
| AT-1K Raybolt | man-portable ATGM | |
| BGM-71F/TOW-2B | ATGM | |
| Bofors/Nexter Bonus | artillery shell submunition | / |
| BLU-108 | aerial bomb | |
| CBU-97 [Sensor Fuzed Weapon] | aerial Cluster bomb | |
| FGM-148 Javelin | man-portable ATGM | |
| Griffin LGB | Laser-guided bomb | |
| HJ-12 | man-portable ATGM | |
| Kitolov-2M | Mortar & Artillery |  Russian Federation |