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Taiwan's CSIST Unveiled the Sea Oryx Naval Air Defense System Similar to RAM at TADTE 2015.
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Taiwan's
CSIST Unveiled the Sea Oryx Naval Air Defense System Similar to RAM
at TADTE 2015 |
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At
the TADTE (Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology Exhibition) 2015
defense exhibition held this week in Taipei, the Chungshan Institute
of Science and Technology (CSIST) unveiled for the first time the Sea
Oryx naval air defense missile system. The system appears close in concept
to the American/German RAM (Rolling Airframe Missile) system developed
by Raytheon/Diehl/RAM-SYS or to the Chinese Type 710.SJ01-24 launcher
for HQ-10 missile. |
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 Taiwan's new Sea Oryx naval air defense missile system unveiled for the first time during the TADTE 2015 exhibition in Taipei. |
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The Sea Oryx missile is derived from the locally developed Infra-Red
short range air-to-air missile "TC-1" Tien Chien-1 (meaning
Sky Sword) . TC-1 is operational with Taiwan's air force IDF jet and
Taiwan's army Antelope
surface-to-air defense missile system. The TC-1 missile is fitted
with a HE-blast fragmentation warhead with contact or active laser proximity
fuze. The missile has a maximum effective range of 9,000 m and maximum
altitude range of 3,000 m. The Sea Oryx launcher appears to be somewhat heavier and bulkier than the RIM-116 RAM launcher even tough it carries only 16 missiles as opposed to the RAM's 21 rounds. TC-1 size (length: 2.87 m / diameter: 127 mm) is comparable to RAM's (length: 2.79 m / diameter: 127 mm). |
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Video: Sea Oryx naval air defense missile system |
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According
to CSIST, the Sea Oryx's missile is fitted with an imaging infrared seeker,
inertial navigation system, data-link system and an upgraded rocket motor.
Similar to the American Phalanx CIWS BLock 1B system, a forward looking
infrared sensor is fitted on the side of the launcher. The Sea Oryx is
a lock-on-after-launch missile system which reduces engagement reaction
time. It is not clear if the Sea Oryx missile is fitted with infrared dual mode (radio frequency and infrared homing) guidance system similar to the RAM and HQ-10 missiles or IR/IR "matrix imaging" technology. |
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 Taiwan's new Sea Oryx naval air defense missile system can deploy 16x short range missiles. |
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The
Sea Oryx is intended to be fitted on the new ROC
Navy Catamaran Corvette "Tuo River" to provide the so
called "Taiwanese LCS" with close range air defense. Head of
class Tuo River is currently fitted with a Phalanx CIWS. This new vessel project was first unveiled during 2013 edition of TADTE. The corvette was built by the Lung-De Shipbuilding Corporation under the "Swift Sea" program. With a length of 60.4 meters this corvette size vessel is designed for littoral operations. Ultimately, Sea Oryx could be fitted on other ROC Navy vessels such as the new fast combat support ship AOE 532 Panshih or the Kee Lung-class destroyers to replace the existing Phalanx CIWS. |
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