[sukhoi-30mki]

The destroyer USS Mustin launched a Tomahawk missile Sept. 17 in the Pacific Ocean during a simulated strike that was part of Exercise Valiant Shield 2014. The United States launched Tomahawk missiles to target Islamic State militants in Syria, the Pentagon announced Monday night. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Declan Barnes/Released)

[Bidimus1]

TLAM tomahawk land attack missile UGM109E

TASM = tomahawk anti ship missile UGM109B

Not new idea at all, right out of the 80s

[Bobalu]

The Tomahawk has been around a long time now and is a bit long-in-the-tooth.

It is just so well designed and reliable that it seems there was no reason to go with a new design to make a ship killing cruise missile so they just upgraded the software.

I wonder if they had to upgrade the actual hardware at all?

It’s possible they are painting the targeted ships with a laser to make striking them much easier. A drone or a low orbit satellite could laser target a ship.

[Bobalu]

Thanks for all the aviation posts you make sukhoi-30mki!

I always enjoy such posts :-)

[mowowie]

I saw a video recently where i believe an F-22 was able to steer a tomahawk launched from from a naval vessel from like a hundred miles away into a moving ship.

[DoughtyOne]

[DoughtyOne]

[wideminded]

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,

Is there any answer for an incoming anti-carrier missile?