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The AGM-84 (Harpoon) is an American guided anti-ship missile designed for deployment on surface ships, aircraft, submarines and ground-based installations. It has a range of 102 km and a flight speed of mach 0.75. The Harpoon Weapon System consists of the missile, launcher and a Command Launch System (CLS). The CLS can be a stand-alone system such as the Harpoon Shipboard (HSCLCS), Harpoon Aircraft (HACLCS), and the Encapsulated Harpoon Command and Launch Subsystems (EHCLS), or its functions can be integrated into an aircraft, ship or submarine fire control system. The warhead is a 500 pound, blast/fragmentation, high explosive unitary warhead. Delayed fusing is employed to permit warhead penetration of the ship's hull. When Harpoon is launched from ships, ground-based installations and submarines, the turbojet engine starts automatically after booster separation. For air- launched Harpoon, the booster is not used; the turbojet engine fires on command or automatically depending on speed and altitude of the launch
aircraft. Using the MGU and data from the radar altimeter, the missile flies at the optimum height for the prevailing sea state. The radar seeker is initialised at mid-course cruise altitude as it approaches the target. After acquisition, Harpoon immediately descends to the sea skimming altitude. Just prior to impact the missile executes a shallow pop-up or maintains sea skimming into the target.
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An altimeter is a device measuring altitude.
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MOLA is an abbreviation for Mars Observer Laser Altimeter
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R/A is an abbreviation for Altimeter
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RA is an abbreviation for Regular Army
RA is an abbreviation for Research Assistant
RA is an abbreviation for Royal Academy
RA is an abbreviation for Radar Altimeter
RA is an abbreviation for Random Access
RA is an abbreviation for Right Ascension
RA is an abbreviation for Royal Academician
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RADVS is an abbreviation for Radar Altimeter and Doppler Velocity Sensor
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RAS is an abbreviation for Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability
RAS is an abbreviation for Radar Absorbing Structures
RAS is an abbreviation for Radar Altimeter Science
RAS is an abbreviation for Remote Active Spectrometer
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ALT is an abbreviation for altitude
ALT is an abbreviation for Airborne Laser Technology
ALT is an abbreviation for Airborne Laser Tracker
ALT is an abbreviation for Approach and Landing Test
ALT is an abbreviation for Short Pulse Radar Altimeter
HARA is an abbreviation for High Altitude Radar Altimeter
HARA is an abbreviation for Hughes Aircraft Retirees' Association
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The Sea Killer is an Italian anti-ship missile. It has a range of 25 km and uses beam-riding and radar altimeter guidance systems. It flies close to the seas surface making it an effective weapon.
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