Taiwan Developing New Tien Chien Air-To-Air Missile For Future Fighter

tien chien 2 air-to-air missile Taiwan

The new variant represents an improvement on the air-to-air TC-2 missile, above.

Credit: National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology
SINGAPORE—Taiwan is developing a fourth Tien Chien (“Sky Sword”) air-to-air missile variant to arm its future domestically developed fighter jet. An unnamed “high-ranking official” reportedly revealed this information to Taiwanese news outlet Taipei Times. Designed and manufactured by the National...
Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

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