Type 79 Jyu-MAT

Infobox Weapon
name=Type 79 Jyu-MAT / 79 Tan-SSM


caption=A Type 79 LMAT launcher on display.
origin= flagicon|Japan Japan
type=Heavy anti-tank/landing-craft guided missile
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service= 1984 to present
used_by= Japan
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designer= Defense Agency Technical Research and Development Institute
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manufacturer= Kawasaki Heavy Industries
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production_date= 1980 to present
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weight=15.7 kg missile
278 kg system
length=1.5 m
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diameter=153 mm
crew=1
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range= 320 to 4,000 meters
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sights= NEC telescopic sight
filling= Shaped charge on tanks/armored vehicles
Fragmentation charged warhead for landing vessels and ships.
filling_weight=4.2 kg
detonation=Impact or delayed impact
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speed=200 m/s
guidance=Wire guided SACLOSThe Type 79 Jyu-MAT is a Japanese SACLOS guided anti-tank missile that entered service with the JGSDF in 1984. It was initially issued to coastal defence units, intended to destroy troop and vehicle landing ships as they approached the shoreline.

Description

The missile is stored in a cylindrical transport container. On launch the missile is ejected from the tube by a solid rocket motor. After traveling a safe distance from the operator, the Daicel Chemical Industries flight motor ignites and takes the missile to its cruising speed of approximately 200 meters per second.

The missile is a thin cylinder with two sets of four pop-up fins positioned along the body of the missile. The warhead is either a shaped charge for use against tanks, or a semi-armour piercing fragmentation type with a delay fuse for use against landing vessels.

Operation

The missile is steered in flight by command signals from the launcher transmitted over a guidance wire spooled out behind the missile. A xenon lamp on the rear of the missile allows the NEC manufactured launcher sight unit to compute an offset between the missile position and line of sight to the target, and calculate steering corrections based on this offset.

The Type 79 missile can be fired remotely, at a distance of up to fifty meters from the tripod mounted guidance system. It can mounted on a Mitsubishi Type 73 jeep, similar to the Type 64 MAT and the Type 87 Chu-MAT. The Type 79 is also in use with the Mitsubishi Type 89 IFV.

ee also

* Type 64 MAT
* Type 87 Chu-MAT
* Type 01 LMAT

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External Links

* [http://www.mod.go.jp/gsdf/equipment/index.html#/detail/0/0_8/ Official JGSDF Page]