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| aa. | Weapon | LRAC-89 Anti-Tank Free-Flight Missile Launcher |
| ab | Description | A French missile launcher with missile jointly developed by Somchem, as a low-weight anti-tank weapon with considerable strike effect. |
| ac. | Type | |
| ad. | Calibre | Rocket: 89mm |
| ae. | Overall Length | Launcher: 1170mm; launcher: 1170mm; Rocket: 600mm |
| af. | Overall Width | |
| ag. | OverallHeight | With bipod and optical sight: 203mm |
| ah. | Crew | 2 |
| ai. | Country of Origin | France |
| aj. | Ammunition | MP: Multipurpose anti-personnel/anti-vehicle HE warhead, loaded with 1600 steel pellets with a lethal radius of 20 m, and also penetrates up to 100 mm RHAe;
HEAT: Shaped charge anti-armor warhead, capable of penetrating 400 mm RHAe or 1 300 mm of concrete. It arms at a distance of 9-11 m from the muzzle;
Smoke: White phosphorous round that emits a billowing, opaque smoke cloud for up to 35 seconds;
Illum: Illuminating warhead containing a flare, which burns with a brightness of 300 000 candela for 30 seconds. |
| ak. | Effective Range (HE) | 2 300m at a 45° angle |
| al. | Muzzle Velocity (HE) | 295 m/s; 330 meters in about 1.25 seconds, and 360 meters in 1.36 seconds |
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| ba. | Feed Mechanism | |
| bb | Traverse | |
| bc. | Elevation | |
| bd. | Rate of Fire | Between 3 and 4 missiles per minute |
| be. | Sights | Mounted APX M 290 passive night telescopic that is graduated between 100 and 1,000 meters |
| bf. | Muzzle Energy | |
| bg. | Barrel Length | |
| bh. | Weight of Barrel | |
| bi. | Rifling | |
| bj. | Operation | Electrical. Launcher has a life of approximately 130 firings, |
| bk. | Recoil | |
| bl. | Firing Support Base | |
| bm. | Breech | |
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| cc. | Warhead | Shaped charge warhead |
| cd | Boost Time | The rocket engine burns out before the rocket leaves the launcher at a velocity of approximately 300 meters per second. |
| ce. | Flight Altitude | |
| cf. | Guidance System | |
| cg. | Steering System | |
| ch. | Accuracy | |
| ci. | LaunchPlatform | Bipod; may be fired from a standing, kneeling, or prone position. |
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| cj. | Designer | Societe Technique de Recherches Industrielles de la Mecanique |
| ck | Designed | The 89mm rocket itself was developed jointly by SOMCHEM, South Africa, together with France and Germany |
| cl. | Manufacturer | Nationale d'Armes de Saint-Etienne, France. |
| cm. | Produced | |
| cn. | Variants | |
| co. | In Service | 1972 |
| cp. | Proliferation | Known past and present operators of the LRAC F1 include Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, France, Gabon, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Malaysia, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Togo, Tunisia, and Zaire. |
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