C - 701 The C - 701 is a Chinese missile that is roughly comparable to the American AGM - 65 A / B / D / H Maverick air - to - surface missile . However , the C - 701 is smaller and has less than half the weight of the AGM - 65 A / B / D / H Maverick . Design . Although originally designed as an anti - ship missile , the missile was eventually developed into an air - to - surface missile that can engage various targets . When used as an anti - ship missile , its intended targets are boats with 180 ton displacement or less , such as missile or torpedo armed FAC , patrol boat s , and gunboat s . There are two types of guidance : the Fire - and - forget mode and the command mode . The first type of guidance enables the aircraft / boats / vehicles to get out after launching , providing greater safety while the second type enables the operator to change targets after launching , or to terminate the attack if needed . The television seeker of the missile can be replaced by either an imaging infrared seeker or a millimetre - wave radar seeker . A version with a radar seeker ( not the millimetre - wave radar seeker ) designated as C - 701R has also been displayed in public . History . The C - 701 was developed by the China Precision Machinery Import Export Co or CPMIEC . The air - launched television guided version ( C - 701T ) was the first to appear , while the surface - launched version followed . The third version to appear was version with the imaging infrared seeker and after that , the version after that was the one with millimetre - wave radar seeker ( C - 701R ) . Although the existence of the last two versions has been reported for a long time , it was not until the six Zhuhai Airshow held near the end of 2006 did these report have been officially confirmed by the Chinese government in public . All of the versions are offered for export . Deployment . Unlike the American AGM - 65 Maverick air - to - surface missile which is only launched from air , C - 701 can be launched from various platforms from air ( both fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft ) and surface ( which includes both land / vehicles and ships / boats ) , but the missile cannot be launched from submarine s yet . When the missile is deployed on land and ships , the standard ground launcher is consisted of 4 rectangular box launching / storage containers with two atop the other two , and the entire 4 - round launcher is fixed at 15 degrees elevation . Two of such launchers form the backbone of the missile battery with a total of 8 missiles , with a total weight less than 2 tons . The C - 701 ( or its Iranian derivative , the Kowsar ) may have been employed by Hezbollah fighters to attack and damage the INS " Hanit " during the 2006 Lebanon War . The much heavier C - 802 is more often reported to have been the weapon used , but this is possibly based on the initial exaggerated damage assessment ; apart from destroying the steering , the direct damage caused by the missile hit seems to have been fairly light and the ship was witnessed to have completed the return to base on its own power . Based on the operational history of the Harpoon missile which is a rough equivalent to the C - 802 , the latter missile would have most likely caused considerably heavier damage . FL - 10 . FL - 10 ( FL = Fei Long / Feilong , or 飞龙 in Chinese , meaning Flying Dragon ) is the cheaper coastal defense version of C - 701 anti - ship missile . 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 - 10 would greatly reduce casualties and damage . FL - 10 was revealed to the public at Zhuhai Airshow with the seeker of the TV guided version . C - 703 . C - 703 is the millimeter wave ( MMW ) guided ( homing ) version of C - 701 . Originally revealed in the 2002 Zhuhai Airshow , the missile had a 8 - mm MMW seeker . In the 2008 Zhuhai Airshow , a 4 - mm MMW seeker was also been developed . It was rumored that C - 703 was specifically developed for export customers such as Iran . References . C - 701