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Boeing Pitches Harpoon Missile GPS, Range Enhancements As Over-Horizon Anti-Ship Weapon

Thursday, May 12th, 2016

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Boeing Pitches Harpoon Missile GPS, Range Enhancements As Over-Horizon Anti-Ship Weapon

A Harpoon missile is launched from the USS Shiloh in 2014 during a live-fire exercise. Photo: U.S. Navy.

The Navy is expected to place an order for a new over-the-horizon anti-ship weapon in 2017, but Boeing [BA] is marketing enhancements to the AGM-84A Harpoon missile that it hopes will forestall the service’s appetite for a new weapon.The Navy’s focus in developing precision strike weapons is on offensive anti-surface ship warfare enhancements to the Harpoon missile, CAPT Jamie Engdahl, the Navy’s program manager for precision strike weapons. Many of the efforts to improve existing weapons are upgrading the targets…

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