China produces several families of antiship missiles: those derived from the Soviet P-15 (SS-N-2 Styx) such as the SY-1/HY-1/HY-2 Safflower/Silk-worm (CCS-C-2/CSS-N-2) types, the supersonic C101/C301 (CSS-C-5 Saples/CSS-C-6 Sawhorse) family, the compact C801/C802 (CSS-N-4 Sardine/CSS-N-8 Saccade) in the Exocet class, and the new C602 in the Tomahawk class. China has been at-tempting to expand its export sales of antiship missiles, but has had limited success due to its reliance until re-cently on the outdated Silkworm. The new missiles are an attempt to cir-cumvent the technology gap, but China now faces stiff competition from other advanced antiship mis-siles, especially those available from Russia.
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