White House Accuses Pakistan Of Modifying Harpoon Missiles
Interceptor Shield Report
Nathan J Hunt
August 29, 2009
The mater first arose during diplomatic correspondence in late June when the United States first accused Pakistan of modifying US made missile systems that the United States had supplied to Pakistan to be used for other than their first intended role. The United States is accusing the Pakistani government of illegally modifying a Harpoon missile that were sold to Pakistan during the Reagan administration. The suspected modified missile is a Harpoon sea to sea attack missile that the United States is accusing Pakistan of converting the missile from a defensive sea attack missile into an offensive Sea to land attack missile to increase its ability for its navy to reach inland into India, today’s allegations comes after an unreported test was detected but not reported by Pakistan on April 23rd, 2009 and monitored by US Intelligence agencies, but Pakistan is stating the test was of a indigenously built missile system and not of a modified US made Harpoon missile. Modification of US made systems would be a violation of the Arms Control Act and will raise issue’s between the United States and Pakistan at a time when further aid for Pakistan is being debated in congress.
In a step to calm concerns the Pakistani government has invited the United States to inspect their current inventory of Harpoon missile systems to prove they have not modified their acquired systems from the United States.
