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Canadian frigate fires Harpoon missile for the first time at a shore-based target | Ottawa Citizen

Adjust Comment Print HMCS Vancouver recently became the first modernized Canadian frigate to successfully test surface-to-surface missiles against a shore-based target, utilizing the Harpoon Block II surface-to-surface missiles, according to the Royal Canadian Navy. via ottawacitizen.com I'll just note that the US Navy doesn't operate the Block II Harpoon with the land attack capability. I…


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HMCS Vancouver recently became the first modernized Canadian frigate to successfully test surface-to-surface missiles against a shore-based target, utilizing the Harpoon Block II surface-to-surface missiles, according to the Royal Canadian Navy.

via ottawacitizen.com

I'll just note that the US Navy doesn't operate the Block II Harpoon with the land attack capability. I think we're still stuck in the Stone Age with the Block 1D.

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  1. Jeff Gauch

    I first read the headline as “Canadian frigate fires Harpoon missile for the first time at shore-based Ottawa Citizen” and wondered who that guy had pissed off.

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  2. KenH

    *It’s also a newspaper; which is also hilarious on several levels 🙂

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  3. Jeff Gauch

    Yeah, but newspapers deserve to get a few Harpoons through the windows.

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