Boeing Awarded Contract For Next-Generation Harpoon Block III Missile

"scott s." wrote:

:Fred J. McCall wrote in
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: "scott s." wrote:
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::My experience was that Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers were
::the main drivers for Harpoon developments.
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: Really? I don't suppose you could demonstrate this by telling us
: which FMS customers drove which developments?
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:Sorry, but I don't think I want to go there.
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Then I don't believe it.

I ask the question because MY experience is that FMS customers want
the kit that is currently being used by US forces. They seldom pay
for their own special developments of new capability.

[When they do it is usually as a direct sale and not FMS.]


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"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."
-- Charles Pinckney

On Feb 1, 11:54 pm, wrote:
See:

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Boei..._For_Next_Gene...

How much longer will the Navy keep upgrading Harpoon before
switching to a newer, possibly supersonic, weapon?


Russia already has supersonic anti-ship missiles, so why not leapfrog
them by developing hypersonic weapons?