Wiktionary
a. That can be transported on a person. Often used of military weapons systems, e.g. missiles.
WordNet
adj. portable by one man
Usage examples of "man-portable".
It took another hour for a second Sukhoi-24 attack jet to reach the tanker, but it, too, disappeared from radar shortly before launching an attack on the tanker-and it, too, was well out of range of a man-portable antiaircraft missile.
The radio unit was the latest in electronic communications technology, a twenty-kilo man-portable base station which could serve at a TAC COM set in the field, or establish long-range communications through the folding dish and a geosynchronous communications satellite.
Even Austin Cathedral's towers had been taken over by Planetary Security SWAT teams, and there was at least one security man with a pulser, and another with a plasma rifle, and a third with a man-portable SAM launcher on every building top which offered a line of sight to the square.
Their equipment is ready: passive scanners, man-portable weapons, line-of-sight communications gear, grid screens behind which they will dig in for the duration of this reconnaissance mission.
The man-portable hyper velocity missile moved at ten percent of light speed, giving the energy-weapon accuracy over any tactical range, and the kinetic energy released when they struck their target was far worse than merely devastating.
The man-portable hyper velocity missile moved at ten percent of light-speed, giving them energy-weapon accuracy over any tactical range, and the kinetic energy released when they struck their target was far worse than merely devastating.