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To: Pan_Yan
The harpoons are designed to find the engines and disable them, not sink ships.

In 1988, Harpoon missiles were used to sink the Iranian frigate Sahand during Operation Praying Mantis. I was throttleman aboard USS Joseph Strauss DDG-16 that fired those harpoons. Got the pictures of the burning, sinking Sahand courtesy of some flyboys from USS Enterprise.

66 posted on 06/19/2009 8:03:16 PM PDT by Kudsman (A lifetime of public service = a lifetime of getting serviced by the public.- Mark Steyn)
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To: Kudsman

Mea Culpa.

I just looked it up on Globalsecurities.org and it does not discuss the heat seeking configuration I am familiar with. Of course not all the good toys are configured for submarine launch.

MM1(SS)

USS Albany (SSN-753)
USS Greeneville (SSN-772)


68 posted on 06/19/2009 8:07:35 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (Obama is to Nixon what mass murderer is to jaywalking.)
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