OMTAS
{{Short description|Turkish-made portable fire-and-forget anti-tank missile}}
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|name= OMTAS Medium Range Anti-Tank Missile System
|image= RoketsanIDEF2015 (9).JPG
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|origin=Turkey
|type=Anti-tank guided missile
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|is_explosive=yes
|is_missile=yes
|is_UK=no
|service= 2017–present{{cite news |last=Ozer |first=Sarp |date=9 June 2017 |title=Turkish army adopts home-grown anti-tank missile system |url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/science-technology/turkish-army-adopts-home-grown-anti-tank-missile-system/838182 |website=Anadolu Agency |access-date=12 July 2021}}
|used_by= Turkey
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|designer= Roketsan
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|manufacturer= Roketsan
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- Missile and launch tube: {{convert|35|kg|lb}}
- Tripod platform: {{convert|36|kg|lb}}
|length= {{convert|1.8|m|in}}
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|diameter= 160 mm
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|range= 200 – 4,000 m
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|sights= Optical sight?
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|engine= Dual thrust rocket motor
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- Fire-and-forget mode: Imaging infrared (IIR) guidance
- Fire-and-update mode: RF data link guidance
|launch_platform=Tripod, vehicle, stabilized land platform, remote controlled turret
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The OMTAS (Orta Menzilli Tanksavar Sistemi), also known as Mızrak-O,{{cite web |url=https://www.defenceturkey.com/en/content/the-first-omtas-shot-from-a-moving-vehicle-accomplished-as-part-of-the-atv-project-3775 |title=The First OMTAS Shot from a Moving Vehicle Accomplished as Part of the ATV Project |website=Turkish Defence News |access-date=13 July 2021}} is a Turkish medium range anti-tank guided missile developed by Roketsan.{{cite web |url=https://www.roketsan.com.tr/en/product/omtas-medium-range-anti-tank-weapon-system/ |title=OMTAS Medium Range Anti-tank Weapon System |publisher=Roketsan |access-date=12 July 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.roketsan.com.tr/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/OMTAS-ENG-Flayer.pdf |title=OMTAS Medium Range Anti-tank Weapon System |publisher=Roketsan |access-date=12 July 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ssb.gov.tr/urunkatalog/en/194/ |title=Missiles: OMTAS Medium Range Anti-tank Weapon System|publisher=Turkish Defense Industry Product Catalogue |access-date=12 July 2021}}
OMTAS is an advanced system with various types of latest technologies, effective against modern armored threats on the battlefield.{{cite web |title=Top 10 Man-Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missiles |website=Military Today |url=https://www.military-today.com/missiles/top_10_portable_atgms.htm |access-date=13 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210707101755/https://www.military-today.com/missiles/top_10_portable_atgms.htm |archive-date=7 July 2021 |url-status=usurped}}
Design
OMTAS weapon system is a combination of missile, missile launching platform with fire control unit, carrying cases, and training simulator. It intended to destroy stationary and moving armored targets. Firing can occur from a tripod mount, vehicle, stabilized land platform, or remote controlled turret. The missile has two types of selectable warhead to use, tandem-charge high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) and high explosive (HE) fragmentation. The tandem HEAT warhead is designed to counter the armor of modern main battle tanks and HE fragmentation warhead to attack infantry positions and light or non-armored vehicles. The system can use a thermographic camera sight.
OMTAS features day and night all-weather abilities, direct attack and top attack modes, switching targets during flight, fire-behind-mask, fire-and-forget, and fire-and-update modes. The impact point on a target can be updated during flight. OMTAS's uncooled imaging infrared (IIR) seeker [https://www.aselsan.com.tr/AntiTank_Missile_Imaging_InfraRed_Seeker_3134.pdf Aselsan Antitank Missile Imaging InfraRed Seeker] is supplied by another Turkish defense company Aselsan.{{Cite web|title=Aselsan signs for serial production of OMTAS IR seeker|url=https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/aselsan-signs-for-serial-production-of-omtas-ir-seeker|website=Janes|accessdate=12 July 2021}} Actual armor penetration of the tandem-charge HEAT warhead is still classified but it can be assumed that it is not less than 1000 mm behind explosive reactive armor (ERA) and could be more deadly with its wider 160 mm diameter.
Replacement
OMTAS is likely to replace current 152 mm BGM-71 TOW and 103 mm MILAN in Turkish service. {{As of|2021}}, OMTAS is the largest top attack missile developed by a NATO member state.{{cite news |author= |date=27 August 2021 |title=Turkish Anti-Tank Missiles Are Extremely Sophisticated |url=https://21stcenturyasianarmsrace.com/2021/08/27/turkish-anti-tank-missiles-are-extremely-sophisticated/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827114630/https://21stcenturyasianarmsrace.com/2021/08/27/turkish-anti-tank-missiles-are-extremely-sophisticated/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 27, 2021 |website=21st Century Asian Arms Race |access-date=10 May 2022}}
Operators
: {{flag|Turkey}}: Turkish Land Forces{{Cite web |date=2024-05-23 |title=TSK'ya üst üste OMTAS, MAM-L, AVCI ve ÇBSMT teslimatı {{!}} SavunmaSanayiST |url=https://www.savunmasanayist.com/tskya-ust-uste-omtas-mam-l-avci-ve-cbsmt-teslimati/ |access-date=2025-03-20 |language=tr}}{{Cite web |date=2024-01-18 |title=TSK'ya OMTAS tanksavar füzesi teslimatı - SavunmaTR |url=https://www.savunmatr.com/tskya-omtas-tanksavar-fuzesi-teslimati/ |access-date=2025-03-20 |language=tr}}
: {{flag|Kosovo}}: Kosovo Security Force{{Cite web |date=2023-05-21 |title=Roketsan'dan Kosova'ya OMTAS Füzesi ihracatı |url=https://www.savunmasanayist.com/roketsandan-kosovaya-omtas-fuzesi-ihracati/ |access-date=2023-06-03 |language=tr}}