Boeing Awarded Contract For Next-Generation Harpoon Block III Missile

See:

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Boei...ssile_999.html

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

wrote:

:See:
:
:http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Boei...ssile_999.html
:
:How much longer will the Navy keep upgrading Harpoon before
:switching to a newer, possibly supersonic, weapon?
:

This one seems to fall into the "if it works, don't **** with it"
category.

What do you want a newer weapon to do that would work better than
what's already there and in the development plan?


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

Fred J. McCall wrote:
wrote:

:See:
:
:http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Boei...ssile_999.html
:
:How much longer will the Navy keep upgrading Harpoon before
:switching to a newer, possibly supersonic, weapon?
:

This one seems to fall into the "if it works, don't **** with it"
category.

What do you want a newer weapon to do that would work better than
what's already there and in the development plan?



I thought you said you worked for a military contractor? (Or do your lot
make the Harpoon?)

On Feb 2, 4:53 am, Kerryn Offord wrote:
Fred J. McCall wrote:
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?
:

This one seems to fall into the "if it works, don't **** with it"
category.

What do you want a newer weapon to do that would work better than
what's already there and in the development plan?

I thought you said you worked for a military contractor? (Or do your lot
make the Harpoon?)

Yes

Jack Linthicum ha scritto:
I thought you said you worked for a military contractor? (Or do your lot
make the Harpoon?)

Yes

Jack, the question are for Fred....

Best regards from Italy,
Dott. Piergiorgio.

"dott.Piergiorgio" wrote:

:Jack Linthicum ha scritto:
: I thought you said you worked for a military contractor? (Or do your lot
: make the Harpoon?)
:
: Yes
:
:Jack, the question are for Fred....
:

And, as usual, Jack doesn't know what he's talking about.


--
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the
soul with evil."
-- Socrates

Kerryn Offord wrote:

:Fred J. McCall wrote:
: wrote:
:
: :See:
: :
: :http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Boei...ssile_999.html
: :
: :How much longer will the Navy keep upgrading Harpoon before
: :switching to a newer, possibly supersonic, weapon?
: :
:
: This one seems to fall into the "if it works, don't **** with it"
: category.
:
: What do you want a newer weapon to do that would work better than
: what's already there and in the development plan?
:
:
:I thought you said you worked for a military contractor?
:

I do, but what does that have to do with anything?

:
Or do your lot make the Harpoon?)
:

Nope.


--
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
--George Bernard Shaw

Fred J. McCall wrote:
Kerryn Offord wrote:

:Fred J. McCall wrote:
: wrote:
:
: :See:
: :
: :http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Boei...ssile_999.html
: :
: :How much longer will the Navy keep upgrading Harpoon before
: :switching to a newer, possibly supersonic, weapon?
: :
:
: This one seems to fall into the "if it works, don't **** with it"
: category.
:
: What do you want a newer weapon to do that would work better than
: what's already there and in the development plan?
:
:
:I thought you said you worked for a military contractor?
:

I do, but what does that have to do with anything?


A military contractor questioning the value of the government investing
untold millions to develop a totally new weapons system to do the job
that the existing system already does more than adequately...

Kerryn Offord wrote:

:Fred J. McCall wrote:
: Kerryn Offord wrote:
:
: :Fred J. McCall wrote:
: : wrote:
: :
: : :See:
: : :
: : :http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Boei...ssile_999.html
: : :
: : :How much longer will the Navy keep upgrading Harpoon before
: : :switching to a newer, possibly supersonic, weapon?
: : :
: :
: : This one seems to fall into the "if it works, don't **** with it"
: : category.
: :
: : What do you want a newer weapon to do that would work better than
: : what's already there and in the development plan?
: :
: :
: :I thought you said you worked for a military contractor?
: :
:
: I do, but what does that have to do with anything?
:
:
:A military contractor questioning the value of the government investing
:untold millions to develop a totally new weapons system to do the job
:that the existing system already does more than adequately...
:

I'm Engineering, not Business Development.

Besides, it's not like the government came to me with an RFP about a
supersonic anti-ship missile... :-)


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

On Feb 2, 2:24*am, Fred J. McCall wrote:
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?
:

This one seems to fall into the "if it works, don't **** with it"
category.

What do you want a newer weapon to do that would work better than
what's already there and in the development plan?

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

F14/F15/F16/F18 certainly work, so why do we spend tens of billions of
dollars on F22/F35? Why not just buy newer upgraded version of Eagle
and Falcon? Cause the enemies aren't sitting still, what works today
might not work tomorrow, you must plan for the future.