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Through the introduction of new proven technology, and the re-use of the best-of-breed sub-systems, LMM has been optimised to take on a wide range of targets, at sea, on the ground, or in the air - anything from fast in-shore attach craft / fast attached craft, landing craft to wheeled or medium armoured tracked vehicles to unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) and helicopters. The missile system is a lightweight, laser guided, missile, which lends itself to being fired on the move from land or naval platforms, or, because of it's light weight and zero recoil, can be deployed on fixed or rotary winged UAVs (helicopter) small ships or lightweight vehicles.

The missile, sealed in its canister, consists of a two-stage motor, warhead and safe arm unit, together with guidance and control equipment. Skid to turn commands to the canards in the nose give extremely accurate guidance of the missile. The blast fragmenting shaped charge warhead, coupled with the proximity fuze provides excellent lethality against a wide range of targets. Initially the missile will be offered with laser beam riding guidance, however there will also be a semi active laser variant. The system will also be offered with a family of warheads to provide maximum effect against the wide target set out to ranges of around 8km.

Prototypes of LMM have been successfully flown to prove design concepts. The product was officially launched to a select gathering of potential customers and partners on 2 June in London. In addition detailed planning for the realisation of the full integration programme is underway with the team working closely with the Ministry of Defence.