Type 01 LMAT

Type 01 LMAT
A Type 01 LMAT launcher on display.
Type	Manportable fire-and-forget anti-tank missile
Place of origin	Japan
Service history
In service	2001–present
Used by	Japan
Production history
Designer	Defense Agency Technical Research and Development Institute
Designed	1993
Manufacturer	Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Unit cost	$260,000 (reusable Command Launch Unit) (2001)
Produced	2001–present
Specifications
Weight	11.4 kg missile 17.5 kg system
Length	970 mm
Diameter	140 mm
Caliber	120 mm
Effective firing range	2 km
Sights	Thermographic camera (Uncooled infrared detector)
Warhead	Tandem-charged HEAT warhead
Detonation mechanism	Impact force
Engine	Solid Fuel Rocket
Speed	4 kilometres per minute (67 m/s)
Guidance system	infrared homing, CCD

The Type 01 LMAT (01式軽対戦車誘導弾, 01-shiki kei-tai-sensha yūdō-dan^?) is a Japanese man-portable fire-and-forget anti-tank missile. Development began in 1993 at Kawasaki Heavy Industries and was accepted into service in 2001. During development, the missile was designated with the codename XATM-5. It was later known shortly as the ATM-5.

In the 1st Airborne Brigade, it is used as its main anti-armor weapon.

As a replacement was needed for the Sumitomo FT-84 recoilless rifle in front-line service with the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces, plans to replace it with an Infrared homing anti-tank missile was commissioned by the Defense Agency Technical Research and Development Institute. In 1993, Kawasaki Heavy Industries was selected to create the said anti-tank missile system. In trials conducted by the JGSDF, the system was known as the XATM-5. The system was created in the same year with live testing done in 1996.

Requirements for the system included portability, usage by a single soldier and design-to-cost technology. At the center of its creation was its heat-seeking technology.

In 2001, after 11 years, it was finally placed into service with the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces as the Type 01 LMAT which translates from Japanese to Type 01 light anti-tank guided missile. A report filed by the Ministry of Defense in 2005 called for acquisition of an unknown number of 01 LMAT missile systems among various military items purchased from Kawasaki Heavy Industries for 129,700,000,000 Yen.