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Originally Posted by Bill Nichols
In reality, all of the Navy's TASMs have been converted to TLAM. As for Harpoon, the U.S. Navy no longer considers it a useful weapon for submarines -- it cannot be carried by the Virginia-class and has been removed from other SSNs.
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That may be true, but I still wonder why they consider the Harpoon "not useful" for submarines. Seems to me that they would have some useful purposes like interdicting enemy SAG's at places where they may not want allied surface ships or aircraft operating. Perhaps SSN's lying in deeper waters firing into an area where littoral waters are abundant and enemy SAG's have setup screens. I'm actually quite surprised they even removed the ability for Virginia's to be able to fire them at all. I wish I knew their reasoning. I'm not convinced that removing anti-ship missiles from American SSN's is really such a good idea.