you certainly otherwise you wouldn’t stop . I write less but always correct

Good joke. Keep thinking that if it makes you feel better while everyone ignore you.

How many navies around the world can kill a Super Hornet, 250 km from ship? This before we get into a cluttered environment, jamming support and penetrated attack with F-35Cs against the highest threats? Again, as I said with a slow weapon and particularly in the short to medium term threats you do not need a 300+ km weapon against a large number of potential threats. In fact, I would say a vast majority of them

There aren’t many navies with long range air defense, but there aren’t many navies with aircraft carrier either. Most of them are US allies. In short, you can be attack majority of ships with nap of the earth tactic using weapons with 50-70 km range. The argument against the extra range of JSOW-ER can be used against Harpoon-ER as well. Then if we talk about jamming, not only JSOW-ER can benefit more from jamming because of its lower RCS, there are also many more ways to jam a radar seeker than an IIR seeker.

Yes but then they both come with different advantages. As mentioned, the PMO wants an active RF weapon and there are no plans currently in place to bring that into the JSOW requirements. Each and every breifing that I have seen by the PMO, has stressed the complementary nature of these weapons and emphasized the active seeker of the Harpoon. Moreover, a lot many S&T efforts in preparation for a future OSuW have focused on RF seekers and particularly combined RF/IIR seekers stressing the Navy’s intentions to maintain that enterprise and competency

Iam aware that RF seeker can be used in all weather, but iam talk about the advantage of JSOW-ER over Harpoon-ER aka more capable of penetrating air defense, longer range. Harpoon-ER doesn’t offer much in term of AD penetration capability compared to new antiship missiles

What defense? What are some of the defensive capabilities a short to medium term thread across non PACOM scenarios field? All but the highest threat aside, the Harpoon Block II+ is good enough when employed within a networked attack framework when one looks at the holistic capability of the USN to engage surface targets. For the highest end threat they are developing the Increment-2, and fielding the gap filler increment-1 to meet the urgent needs requirements. Whether or not the JSOW-ER is pursued as far as an acquisition program is concerned, the Navy has made it quite clear (by putting dollars into programs, and by agreeing to work with OEMs) that it will continue to enhance the capability of the Harpoon right through to the mid 2020s when it expects a new weapon to emerge. There is no reason to doubt that if the new weapon moves to the right by 3-5 years, they won’t continue down this path which upgrades existing missiles, fields new variants of existing weapons while buying small amounts of gap fillers against specific urgent needs requirements. I see this as a good strategy given budgetary constraints

Missiles can get closer will have better chance of penetrate it assuming same speed regardless the kind of defense.
Moreover, iam not saying that Harpoon isn’t enough for USN, considering that their fleet is bigger than anyone else, they have complementary SM-2/SM-6. Most of their adversaries are countries that barely have a functional navy. USN should be alright even with vanilla Harpoon. Operating both IIR and RF weapons at the same time can help mitigate disadvantages of each. However that doesn’t mean there isn’t an inferior weapon between the two complimentary weapons. For example: a bayonet is a complimentary part of the rifle, it has it’s own advantages but doesn’t mean it isn’t inferior to the gun. Or F-15 and F-16 are complimentary aircraft, but F-15 is generally considered better due to range/load out.. etc. You see my point?.

I don’t see how the Harpoon block II ER is any less capable to the JSOW-ER

Harpoon-er has shorter range than JSOW-ER. While others anti ship missiles have either speed (Brahmos, ASM-3.. etc) or stealth (JSM, JSOW-ER, LRASM.. etc) to help them penetrate air defense better, Harpoon-er has neither.

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