Photos of surface-launched Sky Sword II missile

The first images of the surface-launched version of the Sky Sword II radar guided air-to-air missile has been released by Chung-Shan Institute of Science & Technology.

The photo below shows the missile being launched from a Knox-class frigate.

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Photos: CSIST

CSIST has also managed to fire the missile in vertical-launch mode.

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The main difference with the existing missile is the attachment of a booster rocket.

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TC-2 Sky Sword II
By RudolphChen (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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