Air force to order indigenous missile - TW

The air force is to buy and deploy the air-launched version of the domestically developed Hsiung Feng II anti-ship missile if it passes tests to be held possibly late next year, the air force said yesterday.

Air force chief of staff Lieutenant General Shen Kuo-chen (沈國禎) said the revised Hsiung Feng II missile is to be test-fired from the IDF fighter plane, also locally built.

"The Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology (CSIST) is now working on the integration of the Hsiung Feng II missile within the IDF's systems. Test-firing of the missile from the IDF is scheduled to start in 2005, but if everything goes well, it could begin by the end of next year," Shen said.

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