The Hsiung Feng I, also written HF-1 and known in English as Brave Wind I, was the first missile of Taiwan's Hsiung Feng antiship family. It was a reverse-engineered version of the Israeli Gabriel II, redesigned by Taiwan's Sun Yat-sen Institute and the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology with domestically produced components. The first test firing took place in 1977 and initial production began in 1979, but design flaws in the radar altimeter, cooling system and rocket motor limited the original version, so engineers produced the improved Hsiung Feng IA, which entered production in 1981. The solid-fuel missile is 3.4 m long, weighs about 537.5 kg at launch, carries a 150 kg warhead and reaches 40 km. It armed the Navy's Yang-class destroyers and was retired around the end of 2012, replaced by the Hsiung Feng II.
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Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category) Classification
Service Status Introduced Year Sources
1. Hsiung Feng I / IA (CSIS Missile Threat)
Opening paragraph
The Hsiung Feng I / IA were Taiwanese subsonic antiship missiles
Development, first production
Initial production started in 1979.
Opening paragraph [service-status]
The Hsiung Feng IA left operational service in 2012.
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In Group: Anti-Ship and Anti-Submarine Missiles, LeadQuote, In Group: Anti-Ship and Anti-Submarine Missiles, Lead
The Hsiung Feng I (HF-1) (雄風一型, "Brave Wind I") is an anti-ship missile system developed by the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology in Taiwan between 1975 and 1978 in response to the SY-1 missile being introduced into service with the opposing People's Liberation Army Navy.
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