[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

030508-N-0000X-001 At sea aboard USS Stethem (DDG 63) – A Tactical Tomahawk Cruise Missile launches from the guided missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) during a live-warhead test. The missile traveled 760 nautical miles to successfully impact it’s intended target on San Clemente Island, part of the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) test range in Southern California. The Tactical Tomahawk is the next generation of Tomahawk cruise missile, and adds the capability to reprogram the missile while in-flight to strike any of 15 preprogrammed alternate targets, or redirect the missile to any Global Positioning System (GPS) target coordinates. It also will be able to loiter over a target area for some hours, and with its on-board TV camera, will allow the war fighting commanders to assess battle damage of the target, and, if necessary redirect the missile to any other target. Launched from the Navy's forward-deployed ships and submarines, Tactical Tomahawk will provide a greater flexibility to the on-scene commander. Tactical Tomahawk is scheduled to join the fleet in 2004. U.S. Navy photo. (RELEASED)

[HiJinx]

Very interesting...!

I took part in a Digital Division exercise at the NTC in '95 where part of the demo was a live shot of a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) from 'somewhere in the Pacific' to a target in the China Lake test range. The TLAM had a cigar-sized video camera mounted in the tailfins that allowed the controllers to vector it in to the target. The TLAM approached the target on a recon run to let the controllers decide whether to attack, made a race-track circuit around the range, and hit the target on the second run. Pretty impressive. 8 years ago!

HJ