Taiwan denies Tien Kung missiles to be deployed on destroyers

Taiwan's military on Monday denied a local media report earlier in the day that the locally developed Tien Kung III (Sky Bow III) surface-to-air missile system will be deployed on the country's Kidd-class destroyers.

The report is not true, said the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology, under the Ministry of National Defense, which developed the missile system.

The Chinese-language Liberty Times reported Monday that the military is planning to improve the missile system on the Kidd-class destroyers, which are currently equipped with the US-made surface-to-air Standard Missile-2.

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