Type 91 MANPADS

Type 91 MANPADS - 80mm

Type 91 MANPADS launcher on static display - 80mm

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

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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
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.

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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.