What You Need to Know: The Harpoon missile, first developed in 1977 by McDonnell Douglas, revolutionized naval warfare with its radar-homing and sea-skimming capabilities. Designed to counter ...

An advanced air-launched land attack cruise missile was developed from the Harpoon and deployed during the 1990s as the AGM-84E Standoff Land Attack Missile, or SLAM, to be fielded on U.S. Navy F ...

Harpoon Missile Variants Over the Years The first Harpoon was delivered by the end of the 1970’s. Utilizing a low-level, sea-skimming cruise trajectory with active radar guidance, capable of ...

The attack demonstrated Ukraine’s ability to use relatively cheap drones to take out expensive aircraft and to strike sites ...

Ukrainian officials have said they struck a Russian tugboat in the Black Sea using two Harpoon missiles on Friday. It is the first time Ukraine has announced it has destroyed a Russian vessel with ...

Commander Jeremy Samson, the commanding officer of HMCS Regina, said "there was an issue" with the Harpoon Block II missile after it was fired from the vessel during joint U.S. drills at the U.S ...

Operation Prairie Fire, launched in March 1986, was a response by the U.S. Navy to hostile actions from Libyan forces that had fired surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) at American aircraft that had ...

The 53rd Test and Evaluation Group completed an operational taxi test with a U.S. Navy AGM-84N Harpoon Block II+ anti-ship missile loaded on a U.S. Air Force F-16 in a demonstration of rapid ...