The sub-sonic, wave-skimming GM-84 Harpoon is the US Navy's sole anti-shipping missile, with the minor exception of small helicopter-borne AGM-119B Penguin missiles. The Harpoon has been adapted into several variants, and exported to many navies
about the 2024 of it all? we heard sarah huckabee sanders give the republican response, and she talked about joe biden being old. critics said he lost his step. it s hard to make the case when he s dancing circles around the republicans in the house chamber. i think more than any of the substantiative things that we heard in the state of the union and many of them, and we ll hear more as the year continues, but more than anything there, what you saw from joe biden was something that he doesn t always get a chance to display, which was floating like a butterfly and stinging like a harpoon missile, or harpoon as he, you know, went back and forth with the republicans. that case that he doesn t have what he used to have. doesn t have the dexterity is, again, very very tough to make if he s displaying as he did last night. allie, let me go to you. one of the things that we saw from the president was this an idea of an olive branch to bipartisanship, but at the same time, him trying to,
defense ministry has ordered commanders to prioritize them for targeting. the u.s. has sent a dozen of these himars to ukraine. the administration just settled overspending for more for a total of 16. it s possible that the germans and the british are maybe sending a handful more. but ukraine says, these weapons are game changing for them. and they need a lot more. the ukrainian minister of defense just said, quote, for an effective counteroffensive, we need at least 100. he said, quote, that would be a game-changer. it s clear that u.s. provided weapons on the ground in ukraine, or already it s clear that she has provided weapons already on the ground in ukraine, or doing the work they were intended to do. ukraine was able to take out russian ship on the black sea. they were eventually able to recapture snake island, with a u.s.-made harpoon missile, using these himars systems, ukraine was able to destroy an important russian command center for aerial operations that they say has dr