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
Air defence and air policing alongside the F-16 fleet, with anti-ship capability in a defensive concept.
Strengths
Domestically designed, built and supported, which insulates it from the foreign-supply and political-delivery risks that affect the rest of the fleet — a point of growing rather than diminishing relevance given 2026's uncertainty over US transfers. Progressive upgrade programmes have kept it relevant.
Limitations
Smaller and shorter-ranged than the F-16, with a more limited payload, and built in modest numbers. It is a capable complement to the fleet rather than its backbone.
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 Air Force (Documented, high confidence)
Branch & service operators
- ROC Air Force Documented
Assessed as of2026-07Last reviewed2026-07-20