According to information published by the Taiwan News website on June 8, 2021, the tank landing ship LCC-1 of the Taiwanese Navy is fitted with the new and domestically produced phased array radar and Sea Oryx short-range air defense missile system.
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Taiwanese Navy LCC-1 Kaohsiung is fitted with the Sea Oryx short-range air defense system. (Picture source Alert5 website)
According to a picture released on the Internet by the website Alert 5, the LST-542 class tank landing ship, LCC-1 Kaohsiung of the Taiwanese Navy seems to be fitted with a Sea Oryx short-range air defense system mounted on the stern of the ship.
The Sea Oryx is a lightweight, infrared homing short-range air defense system developed for the Taiwanese Navy. It uses the TC-1L air-to-air missile and is designed to defend warships against anti-ship missiles, helicopters, and low flying fixed-wing jet airplanes.
The Sea Oryx is designed by the National Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology, was unveiled in 2015 at the Taipei Aerospace and Defense Technology Exhibition. The system seems very similar to the American-made U.S. RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile system.
The RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) is a small, lightweight, infrared homing surface-to-air missile in use by the German, Japanese, Greek, Turkish, South Korean, Saudi Arabian, Egyptian, Mexican, and U.S. Navies. It was intended originally and used primarily as a point-defense weapon against anti-ship cruise missiles.
According to a military source, the missile uses with the Sea Oryx has a maximum effective range of 9 km with a maximum altitude of 3 km.
