Designed to counter Soviet threats like the Styx missile, the Harpoon provided U.S. forces with over-the-horizon strike ...

Forming the tip of the spear in the carrier strike group, the F-18 Super Hornet can wreak havoc on targets in the air, on ...

Sailors load a Harpoon anti-ship cruise missile on to the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Olympia (SSN-717) on July 3, 2018. US Navy Photo JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM – The Navy ...

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 ...

Harpoon Missile Variants Over the Years. The first Harpoon was delivered by the end of the 1970’s. Utilizing a low-level, ... capable of using both anti-ship and land-strike missiles.

The Naval Strike Missile has a range of more than 100 nautical miles and has target-recognition capabilities that limit the need for another ship or aircraft to hold a track on the target.

A coordinated missile strike during an exercise in Norway was the first use of Harpoon missiles by Poseidon P-8A planes, the U.S. Navy said on Wednesday.

Close-up of the XATM-84N Harpoon Block II+ missile fitted to a USAF F-16. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Timothy Perish) As evidenced by the released images, the test involved an XATM ...

To give the first-generation, anti-ship-only Harpoon a land-attack mode in its Block II model in the late 1990s, American missile-maker Boeing added GPS-aided inertial navigation, complementing ...

USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) launches a Naval Strike Missile as part of shipboard operational testing and evaluation on March 18, 2021. The Spanish Navy is in line to get the missile type in 2027.

What You Need to Know: The Harpoon missile, first developed in 1977 by McDonnell Douglas, revolutionized naval warfare with its radar-homing and sea-skimming capabilities. Designed to counter ...