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+ | [[Image:-0976t.jpg|thumb|none|500px|FIM-92 Stinger with IFF interrogator - 70mm. Note that the IFF antenna has one row of full-height holes instead of two rows of half-height holes, there is no rectangular device mounted diagonally on the side of the launcher directly below the sight, and it has a longer and flatter muzzle, rather than the short broad muzzle that looks almost the same as the tailcone of the Type 91. The Stinger's BCU (battery coolant unit) is almost flush with the underside of the gripstock unit, rather than projecting as the Type 91's does.]] | ||
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Revision as of 18:39, 21 December 2017
The Type 91 MANPADS is a Japanese man-portable surface-to-air missile system developed in the 80s due to Japanese dissatisfaction with early FIM-92 Stinger variants. The project began in 1982 using a seeker design which had been in development since 1979: for perspective, this was when the Stinger was still the initial, easily spoofed IR-only FIM-92A model. While it is sometimes dismissed as a straight copy of Stinger, the Type 91 is in several ways a more advanced system, in particular in that it uses imaging infrared instead of negative contrast infrared: like all Stingers after FIM-92B, it combines this with a UV seeker to defeat countermeasures. It is also slightly lighter, despite using a higher-caliber missile, though the tradeoff is that the Type 91's missile is slightly slower.
Specifications
(Original - Developed 1982-1990, adopted 1991, first use 1994: Kai Upgrade - 2007-Present)
- Type: MANPADS
- Caliber: 80mm
- Capacity: 1 Missile
- Fire Modes: Single shot, Imaging Infrared/Ultraviolet Homing
The Type 91 MANPADS and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Anime
Film Title | Character | Note | Date |
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Fate/Zero | Kiritsugu | Episode "Where Justice is Found" | 2011-2012 |
Coppelion | Ibara Naruse | Kai Variant, first used in "Hope", referred to as the "Hand Arrow" | 2013 |
Grisaia no Kajitsu | Travis | Episode 13 | 2014 |
How to tell the FIM-92 Stinger from the Type 91 MANPADS
The Type 91 MANPADS is visually very similar to the FIM-92 Stinger.