icecold951 Posted January 2, 2023 Posted January 2, 2023 Been a while since I've seen anything regarding this. Why doesn't the Harpoon properly sea skim? I think the radar attack method is fixed. But currently, aside from useless warhead discussed elsewhere, the biggest issue is it is wide open to SAMs. The Harpoon should be able to fly under radar over the horizon. At 67ft, it may as well be at 6700 ft. And the fix is so simple. Before 2.8 I lowered the sea skim. It was still able to be attacked on the way in while at cruise altitude, and engaged by CWIS. So I don't know what they are trying to do with harpoons. As an aside, they seem to have fixed the Russian missiles being sent in as a long stream of target practice. They now come in much tighter and more realistically. So that got some love, but none for harpoon. I gather at one point they did have it fly below radar, but raised it up because it couldn't be engaged. But harpoon missiles were designed to be impossible targets over the horizon. It is impossible for radar to track one over the horizon. You can't see through terrain or water.
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