The recordWhat this system is, where it comes from, who operates it and which of Vigil’s modules it is relevant to — with the evidence each of those rests on.
Record
Conflict relevance
This is the catalogue's single record for this system. It is relevant to the module below; each module's Force Atlas shows how it is used there.
Battlefield role
Anti-ship strike from ground-based launchers and naval vessels, intended to make the waters around Taiwan costly to operate in rather than to contest control of them.
Strengths
Domestically designed and produced, so inventory expansion requires no foreign approval. Ground-launched systems are relatively cheap, numerous and mobile, which makes them hard to neutralise comprehensively — the essential logic of denial. Land-based anti-ship missiles are the capability most analysts across the spectrum agree Taiwan should buy more of.
Limitations
Denial is not defence: these systems raise the cost of maritime operations but do nothing about the non-military pressure that constitutes the actual daily activity in this system. Sustained production capacity, targeting support and survivability under attack are the real constraints, and none is publicly quantifiable.
Campaign relevance
Derived: a participant organisation in these campaigns carries a typed equipment association with this system. That is not the same as documented use of the system in the campaign itself.
- Sustained pressure below the threshold Intensifying since 2020
via ROC Navy (Documented, high confidence)
- Coercive maritime interdiction — quarantine to blockade Assessed contingency
via ROC Navy (Documented, high confidence)
Branch & service operators
- ROC Navy Documented
Assessed as of2026-07Last reviewed2026-07-20