Thread: Fast Boat Threat Faces Hail of Hellfires
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Old December 28th 09, 02:23 PM posted to rec.aviation.military,sci.military.naval,rec.aviation.military.naval
Andrew Chaplin
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Default Fast Boat Threat Faces Hail of Hellfires
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On Dec 26, 2:02*am, "dott.Piergiorgio"
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Indeed. If we want to draw a parallel with weapons system of a
century or so ago, the penguin is like the "secondary battery"
available to helos, the main being the harpoon and the tertiary these
navalisedhellfire.... I guess everyone can agree that a penguin is an
overkill
against pirate skiffs and iranian large RHIB and similiar types of
pousserie Navale.

Can any helicopters actually launch Harpoon?

Global Security's page on the AGM-84 suggests not:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...ons/agm-84.htm.
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