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An air-to-air view of a Harpoon AGM-84A missile after its launch from a P-3C Orion aircraft, its wing, during tests on the Pacific Missile Test Center (PMTC) range

An air-to-air view of a P-3 Orion aircraft banking to the right. This aircraft is carrying an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile on each outboard wing pylon and a total of four Harpoon missiles under its wings and fuselage

An air-to-air left side view of a UH-1 Iroquois helicopter from Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 5 (HAL-50 as it is used to photograph a Harpoon missile launch from the battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB 62) on the Pacific Missile Test Center range. (Substandard image)

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Naval Air Station, Point Mugu

State: California (CA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: PHAA Mark Washington

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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10/09/1981
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