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The Sky Sword 1 (), or TC-1, is a short range infrared guided air-to-air missile. The missile has fire and forget slave-by-radar capabilities. It consists of an imaging infrared seeker, a high explosive warhead, a solid propellant motor and a guidance control unit. The seeker uses dual spectral IR and has a detection range of 18.5km.
The Sky Sword 1 is also used as a
The TC-1L is a ground-launched variant for use with the
TC-2 info on Global Security
* TC-2N test vide
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The Sky Sword 1 (), or TC-1, is a short range infrared guided air-to-air missile. The missile has fire and forget slave-by-radar capabilities. It consists of an imaging infrared seeker, a high explosive warhead, a solid propellant motor and a guidance control unit. The seeker uses dual spectral IR and has a detection range of 18.5km.
The Sky Sword 1 is also used as a surface-to-air missile
A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft or other missiles. It is one type of anti-aircraft syst ...
by the Antelope air defence system
The Antelope air defense system () is a Taiwanese short range ground-to-air anti-aircraft defense system in operation with the Republic of China Army.
Description
The Antelope system employs a battery of four Sky Sword I (TC-1) missiles mount ...
.
Development
The Sky Sword 1 was developed in the mid-1980s and revealed in May 1986, as Taiwan's first indigenousair-to-air missile
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. The production of the missile started in 1991 and the air-to-air version entered ROCAF service in 1993. It bears a striking similarity to the American AIM-9 (also in Taiwanese service) and fulfills a similar role on the Indigenous Defense Fighter to the AIM-9 on the F-16
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. In 2017 NCSIST exhibited a variant of the TC-1 with a larger diameter motor.
Service history
TC-1 missiles were employed during a 2019 training exercise off Taiwan’s east coast.Variants
TC-1L
The TC-1L is a ground-launched variant for use with the Antelope air defence system
The Antelope air defense system () is a Taiwanese short range ground-to-air anti-aircraft defense system in operation with the Republic of China Army.
Description
The Antelope system employs a battery of four Sky Sword I (TC-1) missiles mount ...
.
Sea TC-1
Developed for use with theSea Oryx
The Sea Oryx ( zh, t=海劍羚飛彈系統, p=Hǎi jiàn líng fēidàn xìtǒng) is a lightweight, infrared homing short-range air defense system developed for the Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy. Based on the TC-1L surface-to-air missile, i ...
system, the Sea TC-1 variant has an improved seeker, data-link, and rocket motor.
See also
* Republic of China Air Force * Sky Bow *Sky Sword II
The Sky Sword II ( zh, t=天劍二, Tien Chien II), or TC-2, is a Taiwanese medium-range, hypersonic, radar guided air-to-air missile. It has an inertial navigation system, a data-link for mid-course guidance and active radar homing for ter ...
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References
External links
TC-2 info on Global Security
* TC-2N test vide
{{National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) aircraft Air-to-air missiles of the Republic of China Surface-to-air missiles of the Republic of China 20th-century surface-to-air missiles Military equipment introduced in the 1980s