The Kuang Hua VI project was first unveiled in 1996, designed to replace the Hai Ou-class missile boats in service with the ROCN.

The missile boat's targeting info is obtained from shore and other larger naval combatants via datalink.

However, the tender was subsequently disputed by rival bidders and the Taiwanese legislature froze the budget for the construction of the class until 2007.

A second batch consisting of FACG 63 and 64 was handed over to the ROC Navy on September 5, 2009, and entered service November 10, 2009.

The two remaining Sea Dragon squadrons with Hai Ou missile boats that were not even 20 years old would continue on in service.

The only prototype of the Kuang Hwa VI, FACG-60, lost power and ended up hard aground upon concrete tetrapods forming the breakwater of an outer seawall.