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An RGM-84A Harpoon antiship cruise missile is fired from an Mk 11 launcher aboard the guided missile destroyer USS LAWRENCE (DDG 4). The missile is being fired at a target hulk during Exercise READEX 2-83 near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico

An RGM-84A Harpoon antiship cruise missile is fired from an Mk 11 launcher aboard the guided missile destroyer USS LAWRENCE (DDG 4). The missile is being fired at a target hulk during Exercise READEX 2-83 near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico

An RGM-84A Harpoon antiship cruise missile is fired from an Mk 11 launcher aboard the guided missile destroyer USS LAWRENCE (DDG 4). The missile is being fired at a target hulk during Exercise READEX 2-83 near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico

An RGM-84A Harpoon antiship cruise missile heads toward a target hulk after being launched from the guided missile destroyer USS LAWRENCE (DDG 4) during Exercise READEX 2-83 near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico

An RGM-84A Harpoon antiship cruise missile is fired from an Mk 11 launcher aboard the guided missile destroyer USS LAWRENCE (DDG 4). The missile is being fired at a target hulk during Exercise READEX 2-83 near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico

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An RIM-66C Standard missile is fired from the forward Mark 26 Mod 1 launcher aboard the guided missile cruiser USS TICONDEROGA (CG-47). The missile is being fired at a target drone on the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Facility, Puerto Rico

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A Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Medium Range (MR) missile (SM-2MR) is fired from the Mark 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS) onboard the US Navy (USN) ARLEIGH BURKE CLASS: GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER (Aegis) USS O'KANE (DDG 77), during Exercise "Rim of the Pacific" (RIMPAC 2002). The USN OLIVER HAZARD PERRY CLASS: GUIDED MISSILE FRIGATE, USS CROMMELIN (FFG 37) and the USN SPRUANCE CLASS: DESTROYER, USS PAUL F. FOSTER (DD 964) follow in formation

Two RGM-84A Harpoon antiship cruise missiles are mounted in the loading position on an Mk 11 launcher aboard the guided missile destroyer USS LAWRENCE (DDG 4). The missiles will be fired at a target hulk during Exercise READEX 2-83 near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico

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Subject Operation/Series: READEX 2-83

Base: Vieques Island

Country: Puerto Rico (PRI)

Scene Camera Operator: Unknown

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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30/08/1983
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