TL - 10 The TL - 10 ( Tian Long - 10 ) or Sky Dragon ( 天龙 ) - 10 is a light anti - ship missile unveiled in the Zhuhai Airshow in 2004 in China , and it is the Chinese equivalent of the French MM - 15TT / AS - 15TT light anti - ship missile developed by Aérospatiale . History . The development of the TL program appeared to have started in the mid - 1990s and were originally identified as the FL - 8 ( TL - 10 ) and FL - 9 ( TL - 6 ) under China National Aero Technology Import & Export Company ( CATIC ) . The program and missiles were officially revealed in the Zhuhai Airshow in 2004 by the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation ( CASIC ) . At the Zhuhai Airshow , two versions , TL - 10A and TL - 10B were revealed , A with the television seeker and the B with the radar seeker . The manufacturer revealed that plans to develop additional seekers such as imaging infrared were already in progress , that would enable the installation of the TL - 10 on air and land platforms . Development . TL - 10 along with TL - 6 are both developed and manufactured by Hongdu Aviation Industry Corporation , and the philosophy is identical to that of its French equivalent MM - 15TT / AS - 15TT light anti - ship missile developed by Aérospatiale . There are thousands small of fast attack craft and patrol boat s armed with anti - ship missile s that pose great threats , but are not cost effective to engage with traditional anti - ship missile s such as Harpoon and Exocet that are designed to engage large warships . Thus , it has been proved necessary to develop a light anti - ship missile to engage these small yet highly lethal boats . TL - 10 , like C - 701 is the Chinese answer to this problem . Design . TL - 10 is specifically designed to engage boats displacing 500 tons or less , and when launched , the missile will first climb to enable the seeker to acquire targets , and then immediately descend down to sea - skimming cruise altitude during its flight . Like the anti - ship version of the C - 701 , TL - 10 is also armed with a television seeker that is interchangeable with TL - 6 . However , unlike the C - 701 guidance has an additional command option which enables the operator to alter the targets , TL - 10 is a purely fire - and - forget weapon . Western sources have claimed that the Iranian anti - ship missile Kowsar which is manufactured by the Iran Aviation Industries Organization is based on TL - 10 while the Nasr is based on the TL - 6 . At the Zhuhai airshow in 2006 , the manufacturer revealed the plan already in development to install this missile on various platforms including aircraft , surface ships , and land vehicles . However , like most light anti - ship missiles in the world , it is certain that this missile would not be launched from submarine s , as the manufacturer has confirmed . The version that has been successfully completed is the ship - to - ship version , hence the designation JJ / TL - 10 at the 6th Zhuhai airshow in 2006 , where JJ stands for Jian Jian ( 舰舰 ) , meaning " Ship ( to ) Ship " . Another version developed was KJ / TL - 10 , the air - launched version , with KJ stands for Kong Jian ( 空舰 ) , meaning " Air ( to ) ship " . FL - 8 . FL - 8 ( FL = Fei Long / Feilong , or 飞龙 in Chinese , meaning Flying Dragon ) is the cheaper coastal defense version of TL - 10 . Following the tradition of Silkworm missile , a land - based version with the lowest requirement is also developed for this missile : as the missile is stored in a controlled environment in a warehouse on land , the salinity , temperature and relative humidity requirements for the missile itself are greatly reduced . Because it is designed and deployed on land , the associate C4I systems can be located separately : the distributed system prevents electromagnetic interference , and if the C4I system is attacked , the distributed nature of the FL - 8 would greatly reduce casualties and damage . Kowsar . Kowsar ( or Kosar ) is the Iranian version of TL - 10 . Noor ( missile ) , the Iranian version of C - 802 , was previously often widely but erroneously credited by many as the missile that had hit Israeli corvette INS " Hanit " in the 2006 Lebanon War by Hezbollah , while post incident analysis has suggested that the missiles used was actually much smaller Kowsar instead . TL - 1 . A new version of TL - 10 appeared made its public debut at the 7th Zhuhai Airshow held at the end of 2008 , together with its larger cousin TL - 2 . Developed by Hongdu Aviation Industry Corporation , the same manufacturer of TL - 10 , the new missile is designated as TL - 1 , and appears almost identical to TL - 10 . Not much information of TL - 1 was released in detail at the air show , and based on scattered technical information published in China , it has been suggested that TL - 1 is an upgraded TL - 10 with a data link added , so that in addition to the original fire - and - forget capability , the only capability present on TL - 10 , there is an extra capability present on TL - 1 : operators can select to attack a different target other than the original one , if a greater threat has been identified after launching TL - 1 . These are other speculations on TL - 1 , such as TL - 10 was purely for export , while TL - 1 is the designation for domestic Chinese use , but these have yet to be verified when more detailed technical information is released in the future . Although the manufacturer has claimed the that TL - 1 can be deployed from various platform , the sample shown at the 7th Zhuhai Airshow was ship - born only , designated as JJ / TL - 1 , with JJ stands for Jian Jian ( 舰舰 ) , meaning " Ship ( to ) Ship " .