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" The Navy&amp;#039;s venerable Harpoon anti-ship missile certainly looked majestic as it fired from the USS Coronado. But the missile crashed into the sea shortly afterward, resulting in a failed launch at the RIMPAC 2016 multinational exercises.   The Harpoon 1C missile was launched from the bow of the littoral combat ship USS Coronado. According to DefenseNews the missile launched from the ship properly, ejecting from the canister located on the bow of the ship. The Navy saw the rocket booster separate from the Harpoon (a missile like Harpoon uses a short-burning rocket booster to accelerate it to high subsonic speed). At that point, the booster falls into the ocean and the onboard turbojet kicks in, taking the missile the rest of the way to target. At some point after that, Coronado&amp;#039;s missile was lost from radar contact. The Navy is investigating the launch to determine precisely what happened.        The target, the retired frigate USS Crommelin, was 20 miles away. Crommelin was later sunk by other weapons during the rest of so-called SINKEX, or Sinking Exercise.  The U.S. Navy is conducting trials of various missile systems in an attempt to revamp its aging surface-to-surface ship-killing capability. The Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, Norwegian Naval Strike Missile, and the latest version of Harpoon, Harpoon Block II+, are all in the running to be the Navy&amp;#039;s next-generation missile. The original Harpoon missile entered service in 1977. The new version, Block II+, features a range of 130 nautical miles, can receive in-flight target updates, and has GPS navigation. The missile is also effective against targets on land. Block II+ has a smaller, 300 pound warhead\u2014likely due to the addition of additional fuel to achieve the range increase. Manufacturer Boeing claims the new warhead is just as effective as the older, larger one.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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