Harpoon carries a 220 kg HE warhead. The RN has long recognised that for some classes of surface ships, one harpoon will not be enough (there are good reasons why RN decided to carry 8 Harpoon as standard).Old RN wrote:I believe people underestimate the operational impact of a number of small warheads (30kg) accurately placed hitting even a large warship.Roders96 wrote:Would be interesting to see the damage 3 spear cap 3 and 1 ew could do to an enemy frigate.
Would the jamming be significant enough to overwhelm a ships radar? Or is this why it hasn't happened.
Although there are clear differences in fusing, fragmentation effects, etc., in terms of HE along one Harpoon is equivalent to 7.3 Spear. So very crudely a ship would need to carry around 60 Spear to replace 8 Harpoon.