AGM-84魚叉（Harpoon）反艦飛彈是由美國麥克唐納-道格拉斯公司開發的反艦飛彈，在1979年裝備部隊使用，也是美國海空軍現役最主要的反艦武器，可以自飛機，各類水面軍艦以及潛艇上發射。此外，美國海軍利用魚叉飛彈開發出遠程陸上攻擊型（SLAM：Stand-off Land Attack Missile）。在美國三軍通用編號當中，AGM-84為空射型，RGM-84為艦射型，UGM-84則是水下潛艇發射型，但是他們的基本結構都是相同的.
Taiwan's Sub-launched Harpoons Pose New Challenge to China's Invasion Plans.
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense has acknowledged the Navy took delivery last year of long-awaited submarine-launched Harpoon Block II anti-ship cruise missiles, a new complication to any Chinese invasion plans.
The delivery included 32 UGM-84L encapsulated all-up rounds, two UTM-84L exercise missiles and two UTM-84XD certification and training rounds, said Fu Mei, director of the Taiwan Security Analysis Center.
These will be divided between Taiwan’s two Dutch-built diesel-electric attack subs, the 793 Hai Lung (Sea Dragon) and the 794 Hai Hu (Sea Tiger), acquired from the Netherlands in the 1980s. Taiwan also has two World War II-vintage Guppy-class subs used only for training, but sources said neither has been at sea for years.
The Harpoon is an all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile system, developed and manufactured by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing Defense, Space & Security). In 2004, Boeing delivered the 7,000th Harpoon unit since the weapon's introduction in 1977. The missile system has also been further developed into a land-strike weapon, the Standoff Land Attack Missile (SLAM).
1樓. hsr2014/10/19 09:15Though Taiwan has a wide array of anti-ship cruise missiles, including land-based and ship-launched Hsiung Feng 2/3 missiles, and ship-launched and air-launched Harpoons, the submarine-launched Harpoons will give it a greater opportunity to stealthily strike Chinese targets, including land-based coastal targets.
The “L” designation on the UGM-84L indicates it has a littoral suppression capability that allows limited coastal target attack, such as upon ships inside a harbor, harbor infrastructure, power grids, invasion staging grounds, and command-and-control centers, a Taiwan defense industry source said.
The Harpoons will allow Taiwanese submarines to strike targets farther north and south along China’s coastline. This would include Shanghai, Zhoushan, Xiazhen and Sandu in the north, and Shantou, Zhanjiang and the new nuclear submarine based at Yulin Naval Base on Hainan Island to the south.The missile’s nominal maximum range of 150 nautical miles would substantially expand potential targets for Taiwan’s submarines, which are limited to about 30,000 yards, or about 15 nautical miles, by their SUT torpedoes. hsr 於 2014/10/19 09:15回覆
