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To: Doohickey; ProudVet77
I stand corrected. PV77 has reminded me of the TASM which is being reintroduced to the fleet. My bad on neglecting it.

With its longer range and heavier payload...it is the best sub-sonic ASM on the planet. Harpoon and its SLAM derivitives fall in line behind that IMHO.

127 posted on 08/15/2005 7:28:11 AM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Jeff Head

I respectfully disagree about Harpoon. It's okay for soft targets, I guess. It's also a good weapon against surface submarines. Originally, it was designed to climb at the end of it's run and dive into the target to give it a chance to penetrate the targe but that made it way to easy to shoot down. I saw, with my own eyes, a Harpoon fired from USS Hayler (DD-997) fail to sink a 50ft tug.


130 posted on 08/15/2005 3:53:18 PM PDT by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
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