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To: Mariner

Well to be devil’s advocate depending on the load out of the destroyer (SM-2, SM-3, SM-6, ESSM, Tomahawk, VLS-Asroc (not even sure VLA ever deployed)) not all 96 have that thousand mile range.


35 posted on 05/20/2018 12:05:04 PM PDT by thinkthenpost
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To: thinkthenpost

Correct.

But the AA missiles are four to a tube. They likely carry at least 40 of those per ship.

And these have a range of only 300 miles...one per tube:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-158C_LRASM

So, yeah, a standard “strike” payload is probably only 40-50 tomahawks. And a whole lotta hurt for everyone else.


40 posted on 05/20/2018 12:26:57 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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