Yeah, a Javelin is a shoulder-fired missile that rises in the air and then comes down on a ground target that is marked by infrared from the operator. That panel in front of the soldier's face in the photo is what he is using to mark the target. Highly effective against enemy tanks ... missile comes right down on the roof of the tank. Boom. Gone.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence