Taiwan Navy reveals video of future guided-missile destroyer

January 30, 2017

Taiwan News

Taipei (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) has released an animated video of a future guided-missile destroyer being designed for the Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy in a simulated battle.

The video appears to show the warship outfitted with Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar arrays likely for air and missile defense systems. There also seems to be a second set of radar arrays on a smaller mast on the aft of the vessel, which the website Navy Recognition believes could be X-band radar.

In terms of anti-missile/aircraft defense the ship looks to be equipped with 16 Sea Oryx naval air defense missiles, a type of surface-to-air missile (SAM)…

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