Harpoon

Harpoon Statistics
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Function Anti-ship cruise missile
Manufacturer Boeing Company
Power Plant Teledyne Turbojet / solid propellant booster
Thrust 272 kilograms272,000 g
0.272 t
599.657 lb
9,594.518 oz
Weight 690.8 kilograms690,800 g
0.691 t
1,522.953 lb
24,367.253 oz
Diameter 34.3 centimetres0.343 m
3.43e-4 km
2.131303e-4 mi
1.125 ft
13.504 in
Wingspan 91.4 centimetres0.914 m
9.14e-4 km
5.679333e-4 mi
2.999 ft
35.984 in
Length 4.6 metres460 cm
0.0046 km
0.00286 mi
15.092 ft
181.102 in
Range 124 kilometres124,000 m
12,400,000 cm
77.05 mi
406,824.148 ft
4,881,889.759 in
Speed High Subsonic
Usage Anzac Class

The AGM-84 Harpoon is an all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile. Its low-level, sea-skimming cruise trajectory, active radar guidance and warhead design assure high survivability and effectiveness.

Harpoon Block II

Harpoon Block II expands the capabilities of the Harpoon anti-ship weapon. Harpoon Block II is capable of executing both anti-ship and land-strike missions.

To strike targets on land and ships in port, the missile uses GPS-aided inertial navigation to hit a designated target aimpoint. The 227 kilogram blast warhead delivers lethal firepower against a wide variety of land-based targets, including coastal defense sites, surface-to-air missile sites, exposed aircraft, port/industrial facilities and ships in port.

For conventional anti-ship missions, such as open-ocean and near-land, the GPS/INS eliminates midcourse guidance errors enroute to the target area. The accurate navigation solution coupled with launch system improvements combine to offer better discrimination of target ships from islands, nearby land masses or other ships. These Block II improvements maintain Harpoon’s high hit probability against ships very close to land or traveling in congested sea lanes.

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