"KDR" wrote in message
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Perhaps the cheapest way to have a limited land attack capability for
smaller navies that operate mid-sized helicopters from frigates.

Not sure that many such opportunities would exist; most of the nations that
operate smaller combat vessels are not all that interested in using them as
platforms to conduct land attack missions. AFAIK only two countries outside
the US have thus far expressed any interest in acquiring SLAM-ER--the ROK,
which is having them integrated onto their F-15K's (and would therefore be
unlikely to want to fire them from helos), and IIRC Australia was
considering them as a possible arming option for their own fixed wing
assets.

Brooks