Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile


The Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile is a truck-mounted anti-ship missile developed by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in 2012. It is an upgrade of the Type 88 Surface-to-Ship Missile. The Type 12 features INS with mid-course GPS guidance and better precision due to enhanced Terrain Contour Matching and target discrimination capabilities. The weapon is networked, where initial and mid-course targeting can be provided by other platforms, and also boasts shorter reload times, reduced lifecycle costs, and a range of.
The missile shares the same Ka-band Active Electronic Scanned Array radar seeker with Japanese BVRAAM missile, AAM-4B.
The ship-launched derivative of Type 12, designated as :ja:17式艦対艦誘導弾|Type 17 missile has been put into service and it is to start deploying from. The range has doubled to 400 kilometers and is also planning to re-apply for the improved version of the surface-to-ship system and the air-launched variant for the P-1 patrol aircraft.