Note: Rubin Design Bureau http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_Design_Bureau
(in Saint Petersburg; one of the main Russian centers of submarine design, having designed more than two-thirds of all nuclear submarines in the Russian Navy; The word "rubin" means ruby in the Russian language; founded in 1901)
(2) Can We Have Our Harpoons Back Please Sir. Strategy Page, Apr 1, 2013 http://strategypage.com/htmw/htsurf/articles/20130401.aspx
("Back in the 1990s it was sort of agreed that between the nuclear subs and the long range aircraft of American carriers, American surface warships no longer needed long range (over the horizon) anti-ship missiles. So in the late 1990s the U.S. stopped building warships that could fire Harpoon (the US long range anti-ship missile [with a range of 220 kilometers]) and took Harpoon off some ships that already had them")