Decades-Old Harpoon Missile Could See Growth in Sub, Coastal Defense Missions

Harpoon fired from USS Olympia on July 12, 2018. US Navy Photo

After pulling out of a competition to outfit the Navy’s small surface combatants with anti-ship missiles, Boeing is seeing a warmer embrace of its 40-year-old Harpoon missile from the U.S. Navy’s aviation and surface fleets and from foreign military sales.

The Harpoon missile, despite its age, is having a small renaissance, as some of the more than two-dozen countries that already own the missile look to upgrade to a new Block II and...

https://news.usni.org/2019/02/06/harpoon-missile-could-see-growth-in-sub-coastal-defense-missions-despite-antipathy-from-surface-force

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