Posted on 02/18/2016 9:14:42 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
In the next decade, U.S. ships and submarines capable of firing Tomahawk cruise missiles will likely be fitted with a variant specifically designed to hit enemy ships up to 1,000 miles away, according to a report published in the U.S. Naval Institute News.
Vice Adm. Joseph Mulloy, deputy chief of naval operations for integration of capabilities and resources told USNI News Wednesday that surface ships would receive the upgraded missiles first, followed by submarines. The move follows the Navy’s upcoming $434 million budget request that would modify a portion of the current stock of Tomahawks with the ability to strike maritime targets.
Tomahawks, or TLAMs, were first introduced in the 1980s and an early variant was actually designed to strike enemy ships but was withdrawn from service because of issues with the missile’s accuracy. In 2015, however, the Navy demonstrated that current versions of the missile could be modified to accurately hit moving naval targets.
According to the Navy’s 2017 budget, the modified Tomahawks will start testing in 2021 before being distributed to surface ships such as guided missile destroyers and cruisers as well guided missile submarines.
Mulloy’s comments come after Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter announced earlier this month that the SM-6 missile, a weapon designed specifically to intercept enemy warheads, would be upgraded to also attack enemy ships.
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Yes. The Raytheon RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile.
Standard Missile (SM) is the most common present system as the outer ring missile.
Next is the Sea Sparrow / Rolling Frame missile
5” Gun with advanced Proxiemty fuse and Phalanx / CWIS with Hyper Vel rocket system and 20 or 30 mm Rotary Cannon.
Some use of low power laser to “dazzle” optical guided system has been tried.
US Navy probably will field first EM-Rail Guns soon.
http://breakingdefense.com/2014/04/navys-magnetic-super-gun-to-make-mach-7-shots-at-sea-in-2016-adm-greenert/
US Army and Navy are looking at a 155mm / 5” gun round at high vel with both anti aircraft and anti missile capabilities, but in the most nascent of stages
an equivalent to our E-2C is the Tu-214R
Humm wrong number scheme/role the Tu-214R is U.S. E-4B equiv.
Sorry
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