Coronado to deploy with four Harpoon missiles after successful first firing

By Justin Doubleday / August 1, 2016 at 10:00 AM
The Coronado (LCS-4) will be outfitted with four Harpoon anti-ship missiles for its upcoming deployment to the Western Pacific after the ship successfully fired a Harpoon for the first time during the Rim of the Pacific exercise. The Coronado launched Boeing's Harpoon Block 1C missile off the coast of Hawaii on July 19 as part of the biennial RIMPAC exercise, Naval Sea Systems Command announced in a July 25 statement. While the missile missed its intended target, according to a...

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