Harpoon Block 2

last SG · 2003-01-15T23:18:00+00:00

Harpoon Harpoon Block II expands the capabilities of the Harpoon anti-ship weapon. Harpoon, the world's most successful anti-ship missile, features autonomou...

Matlaysia SG

Actually it could be a great idea. Especially if the stealth frigates and perhaps the future subs can be armed with block 2 harpoons. The subs will sneak via the south china sea to butterworth while another sneaks into the coast of kuantan. While a couple of frigates moves on to the coast of lumut where the RMN base is. And launch the harpoons simutaneously against Naval and A Force targets which can be immediately followed by A-4 and F-16 air to Ground strikes. Targetted at destroying the runways, hardened aircraft shelters and naval docks and Barracks of the aircrew and naval crew. This swift move will take out the MAF and the RMN simutaneously. This can be followed by and amphibious assault into Johor via the Kranji With FH-2000 support to blow up the Army barracks in Johor baru. This can be followed by addition strike by apaches and A-4 against the major Army headquarters and kota tinggi. And before they know it Johor will be singing majula Singapura

Joe Black SG

But the Iraq did hit a US Stark frigate using an Exocet.

I think we tend to only consider RSN theatre of operation is along the Melacca Straits or the Singapore Straits. In fact, the reason to acquire Harpoon is for RSN to be able to hit enemies at long range in South China sea. In times of conflict in the SEA countries, you can be assured that merchant, commerical and leisure ships will aviod the area like plague.

SingaporeTyrannosaur SG

Bah, Malaysia navy must be insaneto engage RSN head on, not they have much of a choice anyway, stand off and they get pelted with Harpoons…

Matlaysia SG

Yup the Iraqi's did hit the USS Stark twice using an Exocet. However, have you considered that the Exocet is about the only capable antiship missile owned by Iraq as the SS-2 Stylx will certainly not hit the anything. Also with the tanker war at its peak at that point in time it did not really matter whether the missiles hit Stark or not as it would be perfectly ok if the missile had hit a merchent ships.

laser51088 SG

can hardly find any info abt gabriel asm. . . supposed to be super low sea skimming one i think, the latest gabriels have to be preset according to current sea conditions cos they skim very low to avoid detection. . .anyone got more info? or want to correct mine? thx in advance. . .

my two cents

eurofighter SG

Heard or read from somwhere that a new version of the Gabriel is being developed(dunno whether enter service or not). It has an extremely long range.

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