AIDC Ching-Kuo
AIDC
lightweight air-defence fighter with anti-ship capability
Specifications
- Origin
- Taiwan
- Type
- lightweight air-defence fighter with anti-ship capability
- Maximum Speed
- 1275 km/h / 792 mph
- Maximum Range
- N/A
- Dimensions
- span 9.00 m / 29 ft 6 in over missile rails
length 14.48 m / 47 ft 6 in including probe - Weight
- normal 9072 kg / 20,000 Ib
- Powerplant
- two 4291-kg (9,460-lb) afterburning thrust ITEC (Garrett/AIDC) TFE1042-70 turbofans
Armament
one 20-mm General Electric M61A1 Vulcan rotary six-barrel cannon, and provision for an unrevealed weight of disposable stores carried on six external hardpoints (two under the fuselage, two under the wings and two at the wingtips) for four Tien Chien 1 short-range AAMs, or two Tien Chien 2 medium-range AAMs, or four Tien Chien 1 and two Tien Chien 2 AAMs, or three Hsiung Feng II anti-shiPmissiles and two Tien Chien 1 AAMs, or AGMs, or various combinations of cannon pods, rocket-launcher pods and bombs