Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Anti-Tank Weapons for Ukraine: Bring up the NLAW" video.

@orhan3007 Yeah that was kind of what was attempted with the cages. There's also the fact that there's ways to modulate the effects of the explosive. The HEAT penetration is usually understood to be the superplastic jet, but the liner also can form a slug. By prioritizing the slug formation over the jet, you get an explosively formed penetrator - the shape of the liner and placement of the detonators can create a relatively aerodynamic slug that doesn't lose as much energy with standoff as the jet. I'm unsure of what the NLAW warhead uses but it might be a EFP.
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This, but unironically.
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The standoff distance depends on the design of the shaped charge. Spaced armor is effective because it's based on a warhead being designed to detonate on impact and the warhead itself being the standoff. Spaced armor interferes with the superplastic jet by negating the correct standoff and disturbing its path. If you design a warhead to detonate a specific distance from the armor, you design the shaped charge to account for the spacing.
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