- Source: Type 79 Jyu-MAT
The Type 79 Jyu-MAT (79式対舟艇対戦車誘導弾, 79-shiki tai-shūtei tai-sensha yūdō-dan) 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. It is also known as KAM-9.
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 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 delayed-action fuze 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 be 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.
See also
Type 64 MAT – (Japan)
Type 87 Chu-MAT – (Japan)
Type 01 LMAT – (Japan)
References
Jane's Infantry Weapons 2005-2006.
"79式 対舟艇対戦車誘導弾".
"Japanese Military Aircraft Designations (after 1945)".
Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary, Kenkyusha Limited, Tokyo 1991, ISBN 4-7674-2015-6
External links
Official JGSDF Page
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Daftar sistem anti-tank portabel
- Type 79 Jyu-MAT
- Type 79
- Type 87 Chu-MAT
- Type 64 MAT
- Mitsubishi Type 89 IFV
- Type 01 LMAT
- List of anti-tank missiles
- Middle-range multi-purpose missile
- List of equipment of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
- Type 96 multi-purpose missile system
