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I'm using a chromium browser, I'll try edge. If it doesn't work is there any chance you could stick the file somewhere in harpgamer?

hmm, it is not a dead link. using http your browser probably blocks but the https link works fine here in Edge.

I tried to use that link but when I clicked on it I got nothing no download no new tab just nothing happened seemed to me like it might be a dead link

For the patch, use https://www.harpoonpages.com/ftp/harpoon2/h2update.zip . I inherited the HarpoonPages.com site from Dr. Who and long since lost track of the dreamweaver install that I used to maintain the site. One of these days I'll have an LLM helper re-write the site with me, hopefully without losing the 1990s vibe.

It’s funny how some things stick in your head. Remember what was at the top of the list yesterday for the: “1 x special mission ship of unknown capability“ … UPDATE: the special mission ship is probably a replacement for this. It keeps popping into my head. In case you were too busy to follow the link, here she is. A leased civilian ship advertised as: …Kellie Chouest is deployed to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations to support Joint Interagency Task Force South’s mission, which includes counter-illicit drug trafficking missions in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. OK, it has a helo pad, 4th Fleet is the maker of smuggler’s blues: sure, fine. I’d move on to other things, and then it just came back again and again to mind, “Really? That big crane. That funky stern. Huh.” So I started digging around and saw this. The SCORPIO sits on the MV Kellie Chouest after retrieving the flight data recorder from the downed Alaska Airlines Flight 261. The remotely piloted vehicle SCORPIO sits on the deck of the MV Kellie Chouest after retrieving the flight data recorder from the downed Alaska Airlines Flight 261 off the coast of Ventura County, Calif., on Feb. 3, 2000. ….which, being an early-cohort GenX, immediately made me think of this. Glomar Explorer II: Electric Boogaloo? I have no idea, but this isn’t just for chasing drug runners. I mean, sure, she does standard issue 4th Fleet stuff, sticking out like a cygnet being raised in a clutch of ducklings, she shows up now and then in DVIDS doing a wide variety of things, and maybe that is what she is. Perhaps she fits that “multi-tool” niche that is always Salamander-approved. Perhaps. Well, that is enough speculation. I’m just glad that we’re going to get some honest shipyard work for a ship that we will now own—and not lea—for whatever mission it does, and in a new design that will hopefully better fill that niche. Hopefully they leave “white space” for the future to do that do that she does so well, and may she and her future replacement do it well for decades to come. Leave a comment Share This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. View the full article

Teledyne FLIR Defense has secured a contract worth more than $35 million to deliver its TacFLIR 280-HDEP surveillance systems to WB Group, Poland’s largest private defense company, for integration onto reconnaissance armored vehicles. The company announced the award on Thursday, marking the third contract this year in which Teledyne FLIR Defense has been selected to […]View the full article

Ukrainian air defense personnel engaged in intercepting Russian Shahed series of long-range one-way attack drones have published footage showing multiple examples of the weapons literally disintegrating in the air before reaching their targets — a visible sign of deepening manufacturing failures at Russia’s Alabuga drone production complex. The video, published by Ukrainian Wild Hornets drone […]View the full article

French Rafale fighter jets deployed to Lithuania under NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission were scrambled four times in a single week, intercepting and escorting six Russian military aircraft near the airspace of the Baltic states, France’s Armed Forces General Staff said. The sorties were carried out as part of France’s current rotation at Šiauliai Air […]View the full article

EDGE Group said it is speeding up development and production of the MANSUP and MANSUP-ER anti-ship missiles under its partnership with the Brazilian Navy, pushing forward one of Brazil’s key indigenous naval weapons programs. The Emirati defense company said the work is being carried out in close cooperation with local industry partners and the end […]View the full article

Finland’s transition to the F-35 reached a key milestone this week as a Finnish Air Force pilot completed the first flight by a Finnish aviator in the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II. The flight took place on April 15 from Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith, Arkansas, where Finnish personnel are carrying out […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems a $44.4 million contract modification to continue upgrading its Stryker Double V-Hull A1 vehicles. The award, announced by the Department of War, provides $44,394,688 to the Sterling Heights, Michigan-based manufacturer under modification PZ0004 to contract W912CH-25-D-0025. The work is scheduled to continue through Feb. 20, 2030, […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy has awarded Platform Aerospace a $12.9 million contract modification for its Vanilla long-endurance unmanned aircraft system, backing continued work on a drone built to stay airborne for days at a time. The award, valued at $12,893,010, goes to Platform Systems Inc., which operates as Platform Aerospace and is based in Hollywood, Maryland. […]View the full article

Lockheed Martin has received an $850.4 million Navy contract modification to continue work on the Trident II (D5) Life Extension 2 program. The award, announced April 15, goes to Lockheed Martin Space of Titusville, Florida, under a cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to an existing contract. It covers advanced design and development work for the Strategic Systems Programs’ […]View the full article

Raytheon is moving its AMRAAM Extended Range missile into full-rate production under a new $234.8 million contract from the Department of War. The award gives Raytheon Co. of Tucson, Arizona, a not-to-exceed $234,757,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee undefinitized contract action to complete the work needed for the production transition. The contract runs through April 13, 2030, with all […]View the full article

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Wednesday that allies remain committed to keeping military aid flowing to Ukraine, voicing confidence that additional support can be funded through the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List, or PURL, before the end of the year. Speaking after a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group in Berlin on April 15, […]View the full article

Ukraine’s Air Force intercepted the vast majority of a 703-target barrage on April 16, but missiles and drones still broke through — killing civilians in Kyiv, Odesa, and Dnipro in the third consecutive day of large-scale Russian aerial bombardment. Ukraine’s Air Force reported Thursday morning that Russian forces conducted two waves of combined aerial attacks […]View the full article

In this episode, Sal discusses recent naval activities, U.S. Iran tensions, and the strategic importance of maritime power. The conversation emphasizes the significance of maritime and aerospace capabilities in national security and offers insights into geopolitical choke points, regional alliances, and the future of U.S. military readiness. Key topics:T… Read more View the full article

Also the email link is no good, so maybe Tom has a different email address? Somebody is presumable keeping the website going...

I downloaded the FAQ, but I cannot get the very large (lol) 3.5 mb zip file to download or even open a tab. H2update.zip(Admirals Edition Update) FAQ Here are the directions from Tom Wenck on how to correctly update Harpoon II. If you follow the directions 360 gives the update will not work correctly and may cause your game to crash. Follow the directions below and you will get a correct update when you are finished. Here is the info on using H2UPDATE.ZIP: As promised, here is a summary of the various contortions you must endure to receive all updates that can be squeezed from the H2UPDATE. Note that the game must be installed to the hard drive to run the patch. 1. Throw out the instructions in both H2UPDATE.TXT and README.TXT. They are wrong, incomplete, and harmfull. 2. Unzip H2UPDATE.ZIP into your Harpoon2 directory using the pkunzip -d parameter: pkunzip -d h2update.zip (In Winzip check the "Use Folder Names" box) 3. At the DOS prompt, from the Harpoon2 directory, type: update dbupdate\ After a whole lot of patching and a whole lot of reports that are confusing and conflicting, you have received updated versions of: harpoon2.exe the database in the DBUPDATE directory GC1 Battleset GC2 Battleset GC3 Battleset 4. To update the Scenario Editor type: patch seupdate 5. To update the Cold War Battleset type: patch scencwar 6. To update the WestPac Battleset type: patch -ignoremissing annexwp patch scenwpac 7. Delete the patch files: .rtd .rtp update.exe dbupdate.exe readme.txt patch.exe h2update.bat Notes: The DATABASE directory contains a patched database with no new platforms The DBUPDATE directory contains a patched database with many new platforms The WestPac scenario Yellow Sea fails to update The GC3 scenario Nordic.scn fails to update If you want to use the Common Database compiled by the users of this group, unzip it at this point and copy the resulting files into the database subdirectory of harpoon2. Tom Wenck <twenck@erols.com Frederick, MD

The United Kingdom’s National Armaments Director Group has awarded a £879 million (approximately $1.1 billion) three-year contract to Boeing Defence UK to maintain and support the British Army’s AH-64E Apache attack helicopters and the Royal Air Force’s Chinook HC heavy-lift helicopters. The contract covers maintenance, technical services, logistical support, and — critically for the Apache […]View the full article

The U.S. Army gave its most ambitious rotorcraft program a name to match its ambitions on April 15, officially designating Bell Textron’s MV-75 tiltrotor aircraft the Cheyenne II during the Army Aviation Association of America’s annual Warfighting Summit in Nashville, Tennessee. The naming honors two federally recognized nations: the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana and […]View the full article

On Monday, we discussed the announcement earlier this month of 34 ships and the $65.8 billion coming Navy’s way to buy them. What I’ve been trying to get a firm grasp on are what those 18 battle force ships and 16 non-battle force ships will be. I thought by now I’d find a “Ref. A” for those numbers, but no joy. So, I reached out to a real professional and friend to the blog (who will remain on the DL) for some help. Trust me on this—if anyone can figure it out, he can. Even he admits that it’s hard to find the numbers. The biggest issue is that the only budget document for ships we can get ahold of right now is the Department of War’s Procurement Programs (P-1) Brief for fiscal year 2027. If you need a headache, you can dig around in it yourself, but I think that is something best left to specialists. I trust his work without question, and here is what he sifted from it. 18 Battle Force Ships:1 x Columbia SSBN 2 x SSN 1 x DDG-51 1 x FF(X) 1 x LHA 1 x LPD 1 x T-AGOS SURTASS 2 x T-AO 2 x T-AS(X) 6 x LSMs 16 Non-Battle Force Ships:1 x special mission ship of unknown capability 1 x strategic sealift (new) 4 x ship-to-shore connectors 2 x LCAC SLEPS 1 x bulk fuel vessel 5 x fireboats 1 x sealift vessel (used) 1 x T-AH What got my attention at the front? The five fireboats and the strategic sealift. Is that the Light Replenishment Oiler (TAOL) program, previously called the Next-Generation Logistics Ship (NGLS)? I really should discuss that program at some point, especially in light of my comments yesterday…but one post a day, my friends: one post a day. If you hear any more details about the above list, let us know in the comments. All that being said, let’s smile and cut steel...and extend this to a couple of destroyer tenders while we are at it. UPDATE: the special mission ship is probably a replacement for this. Leave a comment Share This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. View the full article

A powerful explosion was reported at the Samara Kommunar plant in Samara, Russia, a defense-industrial facility directly involved in the production of explosives and the filling of munitions, according to local sources and open-source intelligence communities monitoring activity in the region. The blast was reported at the Federal State Enterprise Samarsky Zavod Kommunar, a plant […]View the full article

Britain’s Ministry of Defence announced on April 15, 2026, that it will deliver at least 120,000 drones to Ukraine this year in the largest drone package the United Kingdom has ever provided to Kyiv. Deliveries have already begun this month, the ministry confirmed, with the package spanning long-range strike drones, intelligence and reconnaissance platforms, logistics […]View the full article

The U.S. Air Force’s B-21 Raider stealth bomber has successfully conducted aerial refueling with a KC-135 Stratotanker as part of its ongoing flight test campaign, the Department of the Air Force announced on April 14, 2026. The milestone, achieved during the program’s rigorous test and evaluation program at Edwards Air Force Base, California, was presented […]View the full article