Tandem-charge

An example of a tandem charge warhead is used by the 9M133M Kornet-M missile system However, tandem charges are more useful against explosive reactive armour, less so against the non-explosive reactive armor, since their inner liner is not explosive itself and thus not expended by the small forward warhead of tandem-charge attack.

Examples of missiles that use tandem charges include the BGM-71 TOW, FGM-148 Javelin and the Brimstone.

This effect can be countered by using heavily constructed gravity bombs with delay fuzes that penetrate the earth, concrete, etc.

of the target before exploding—thus containing the explosion inside the structure and significantly increasing its effect.

Cruise missiles equipped with large tandem-charge warheads can use the first charge to create a hole into which the missile flies before exploding the second charge, creating a similar effect of the delayed gravity bomb.