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The LAM or Lightweight Attack Missile also known by its nickname the 'Molok' is a small scale guided missile system that started life under the need for a shoulder fired infantry portable guided missile. However it's roles grew into being mounted on various other platforms in single shot, magazine loaded, or launch cell configuration systems as a cheap secondary missile for use on mecha, vehicles, and strikecraft.

The Molok's appearance is that of a small cylindrical missile with eight folding (they are retracted inside the missle's container) aerodynamic control surfaces and a four bladed thrust vectoring system assisted by electromagnetic exhaust shaping mechanisms. The forward nose of the weapon features two prongs which are the missile's electronic emissions antenna for passive EM target tracking, between these two protrusions is the multi-spectrum optical seeker head.

The missile's body is primarily comprised of spun Kylar Polymer with a denser framework of injection molded Kylar, this is primarily to both reduce the cost of the missile as well as keep weight down. However the more vital components are set in a framework of Valadyne and the warhead is encased in a preformed fragmentation case.

Typically produced in a sealed round fashion, meaning the missile is stored for its entire shelf life in a hermetically sealed container, the Molok is a rather simple to use device. It is powered and propelled by a small 'LISTM' type high impulse solid fuel fusion booster which typically ignites 1 to 1.2 seconds after the launch motor has kicked the weapon from its container. Once initiated the missile is powered by a radio-thermal conversion blanket wrapped around the solid motor. Designed to operate anywhere from up to five times standard habitable atmospheric pressure to the vacuum of space, it is quite the flexible instrument for either offensive or defensive situations.

The electronic brain of the missile is housed in a shock resistant and EM/scalar shielded container just behind the forward set of aerodynamic fins, fully capable of handling the data load of operating the missile it is a single processor system. Communication with the launching vehicle for either command guidance or general telemetry is carried out by a dual radio/IR laser communications set capable of both FTL and STL transmission velocities as well as supporting encrypted data traffic.

The missile employs two primary sensor systems both of a passive type, the first behind the obvious PEMA type electronic monitoring and tracking array. Primarily used to identify and target electromagnetic emissions from possible targets, this system also allows the missile to engage craft employing active jamming systems by identifying and homing in on their electronic emissions. The second system is a HOSTS type optical array with cross spectral imaging checking software intended to defeat certain kinds of decoy systems, this system also allows various mixed mode guidance capabilities.

A dual purpose munition intended to provide both a powerful point target damage capability paired with a secondary capability to attack area targets with a mixture of both fragmentation and plasma blast effect. The result is a flexible system that the missile's user can employ in a wide variety of situations against everything from entrenched infantry to strikecraft.