Work is scheduled for completion by December 2022. Navy’s submarine force after a more than 20-year absence.īoeing received a $10.9 million Naval Sea Systems Command contract late last month to refurbish 16 Harpoon missile capsules and four all-up rounds of encapsulated Block 1C Harpoon missiles for the Navy's submarines. In February it was announced that Boeing began work to return the Harpoon to operational status in the U.S. It has a three-foot wingspan with booster fins and wings, and measure just over twelve and a half feet in its air-launched version, while the surface- and submarine-launched model measures fifteen feet. The air-launched missiles utilize a Teledyne turbojet/solid propellant booster for surface and submarine launch. Navy, yet it has been integrated on foreign F-16 aircraft and is presently being integrated on foreign F-15 aircraft. However, the Block II version was not adopted by the U.S. This Harpoon Block II missile incorporates GPS-assisted inertial navigation, which enables the system to have both an anti-ship and a land attack capability. In 1998, an advanced upgrade to the Harpoon missile was developed. Ship-, submarine- and shore-launched Harpoons require a booster for launch, while air-launched Harpoons are fired without the need of a booster and generally start the engine after aircraft separation. Harpoon missiles are capable of being launched from surface ships, submarines, shore batteries and from naval aircraft including the F/A-18A-F and Lockheed P-3C Orion anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft.
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