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Launch support and command and control for the Harpoons could be salvaged from decommissioned Navy ships and communications gear and data links could come from current Taiwan military systems.
From Washington Times • Dec. 18, 2023
Gallagher and Kim said 10 months after Taiwan's December 2022 acceptance of deals to buy 60 air-launched Harpoons and 135 SLAM-ER missiles, the Navy still had not asked contractors to submit bids for production.
From Reuters • Oct. 26, 2023
ATACMS, Harpoons and Stingers are all weapons the Pentagon was already phasing out, so why spend billions of dollars to buy thousands of them now?
From Salon • Nov. 18, 2022
The Harpoons — which can cost upward of $1 million per unit — are precision-guided armaments that require GPS coordinates to strike.
From Washington Post • May 24, 2022
Harpoons hung on the wall, and under the window was a long couch of furs.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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