"Fred J. McCall" wrote in message

"Thomas Schoene" wrote:
Yes, I know. But the fact remains that it will fly to a set of GPS
coordinates and go bang. I call that a limited land-attack
capability.

So do I. Very limited, since it's not much good in any but the
flattest terrain. Oh, you could presumably deliberately use air
launched to what is essentially a 'line of sight' point, but surely
there are so many better weapons for that that no one would do it.

I suspect it may get used from time to time, especially against port
facilities. Some navies with Harpoon II have no other options right now.

It's hard to tell, but some sources suggest that the Advanced Harpoon
control system can produice overland flight profiles, presumably including
some terrin clearance.

Someone from Korea (pretty sure it was in this thread, but maybe not)
commented on the F-15K deal shortly after I posted my remark the first
time with something along the lines of "That's right, because we're
buying SLAM-ER, too."

OTOH, you said the same thing about Poland, and their package includes only
JDAM and JSOW, not a powered stand-off weapon like SLAM-ER.

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