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The Harpoon is a United States all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile. The missile has been developed and is being manufactured by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing Defense, Space & Security). The missile also has a land attack variant.

Update UPDATE (19:40 CEST): Both Israel and Hezbollah denied responsibility for two massive explosions in Beirut. According to media authorities are considering a version that the explosion was caused by some confiscated materials that were stored in the port area. *** ...

by Pepe Escobar for Ooduarere via The Saker Blog and originally posted at Asia Times When the Ronald Reagan and Nimitz carrier strike groups recently engaged in “operations” in the South China Sea, it did not escape to many a cynic that ...

On July 27, fighting broke out between Israeli forces and Hezbollah along the Israeli-Lebanese contact line. This became the heaviest open confrontation between the sides in about a year. The incident occurred in an area known as Chebaa Farms, which ...

Iran warns Zionists to stop lying Source: Al-Alam, July 17, 2020 Translation: resistancenews.org Iranian Armed Forces’ spokesman Brigadier General Abu Al-Fadl Shukarji has warned Zionists against continuing their lies about targeting Iranian sites in Syria. Brigadier Shikarji added that only 8 Iranian ...

Donald Trump will be “fumigated out” of the White House if he refuses to leave following the presidential election, according to the top US Democrat, Nancy Pelosi. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi reminded the Republican president that he will ...

Minister: cash paid out in tranches of N49 million‘Lawmakers are beneficiaries of agency’s contracts’ CONTRACT splitting is rampant in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Niger Delta Affairs Minister Godswill Akpabio, said on Monday. According to him, the management of ...

China will invest $400 billion in Iran energy and infrastructure but nothing in strategic pact allows for a Chinese troop presence or island handover By Pepe Escobar – republished from Asia Times by permission of author Two of the US’s top “strategic threats” ...

by Ramin Mazaheri for Ooduarere via the Saker Blog Oh – did you have one? Well… we’re waiting. But we will certainly be waiting in vain because the “best” US economic minds, journalists, professors and pundits got nuthin’. Even God’s ...

On July 2nd, 100% of the vote on the referendum in Russian for amendments on the constitution was counted. The results are: 77.92% in favor, 21.27% against. The voter turnout was 67.97%. There was not a single district that voted ...