Type 01 LMAT

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.

[5] As a replacement was needed for the Sumitomo FT-84 recoilless rifle in front-line service with the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces,[6] plans to replace it with an Infrared homing anti-tank missile was commissioned by the Defense Agency's Technical Research and Development Institute.

Requirements for the system included portability, usage by a single soldier and design-to-cost technology.

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.

[7] This weapon employs a sophisticated Command Launch Unit (CLU) that is re-loaded for multiple firings.

A JGSDF soldier aims the LMAT during a military exercise.