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The Harpoon is an all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile manufactured by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing Defense, Space & Security).The AGM-84E Standoff Land Attack Missile (SLAM) and later AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER (Standoff Land Attack Missile – Expanded Response) are cruise missile variants.
Most Spruance-class destroyers were later modified to include the Mk 41 VLS, these launchers are capable of carrying a mixture of the RUM-139 VL-ASROC, the Tomahawk TLAM, and other missiles. All of the Spruance destroyers carried two separate quad Harpoon launchers. Other US ships with the Mk 41 can also accommodate VL-ASROC.
Some launchers are modified to store and launch the RUR-5 ASROC. [1] Mk 11: Twin-arm launcher for RIM-24 Tartar or RIM-66 Standard missile. Used on Albany-class cruisers and the first thirteen Charles F. Adams-class destroyers. The New Threat Upgrade added the ability to launch RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles. Mk 12
1 × single-arm Mk 13 Missile Launcher with a 40-missile magazine that contains SM-1MR anti-aircraft guided missiles and Harpoon anti-ship missiles. Removed from the U.S. Navy ships starting in 2003 on retirement of the SM-1 missile. Mk 38 Mod 2 Machine Gun Systems installed on platforms over the removed MK 13 launchers
In the United States Navy, the Mark 13 launcher was most typically employed as part of the Mark 74 Guided Missile Launch System, or the Mark 92 Fire Control System.Though the launcher was original armament on U.S. Navy Perry-class frigates (and their derivatives), in order to save costs on an obsolete system, by 2004 all active U.S. Navy vessels have had the system removed. [3]
Flights I & II only: 2 × Mk 141 Harpoon anti-ship missile launcher; DDG-62: 4 × Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile, Harpoon missiles removed; Flights I & II: 1 × 29-cell, 1 × 61-cell (90 total cells) Mk 41 vertical launching system; Flights IIA & III: 1 × 32-cell, 1 × 64-cell (96 total cells) Mk 41 vertical launching system: RIM-66M surface ...
RGM-84 Harpoon firing from USS Leahy in 1983 Xi'an H-6 Strategic bomber armed with YJ-12 supersonic anti-ship cruise missile The MBDA Exocet anti-ship missile under a Dassault Rafale multirole fighter Polish Navy's land based Naval Strike Missile coastal defense system launcher and TRS-15M Odra 3D radar in the background
It was one of the last rail-based missile launchers used by the US Navy. The system was deployed in limited numbers due to the advent of the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System; only the first five of twenty-seven Ticonderoga cruisers carried the Mark 26. With the Mark 26, two missiles could be on the rails and it could sustain a 9-second firing ...