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In recent months, we've seen the Navy make multiple moves in this direction, first encouraging Boeing to double the range of its ubiquitous Harpoon anti-ship missile last summer, then approving the use of Raytheon's Standard Missile 6 — originally designed for anti-air missions — to target warships as well. But what the Navy really wants is for the DARPA-sponsored effort to build a new Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) to get off the ground, and out to the warfighters.

And it looks like they're going to get it — eventually.

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A new weapon program that is only a couple years old, and is looking to field to the forces in 2018 and 2019 is actually pretty damn fast.

Development of the Harpoon started in the late 1960s, and didn't enter service until 1977, and wasn't really fully fielded until the 1980s.