In the future, the Tomahawk cruise missile could be modified to hit a warship from 1,000 miles away. raytheon
In the future, the Tomahawk cruise missile could be modified to hit a warship from 1,000 miles away. raytheon
Better use of this of this $1M missle.....
Use it to kill a $500M plus warship and take out forward agressor projection than destoying a small factory (unless of course it produces baby formula) that is worth a couple of million.
Couldn’t a predator drone or any other launch platform, with a Hellfire missile, currently do the same thing?
This is not the first time TLAM would be used in an anti-ship mission. The old TASM was the early TLAM (Bravo variant) anti-ship missile but was replaced by other less expensive weapons such as Harpoon with reduced range.
It’ll have to move a lot faster than it does now. A quick glance at wikipedia tells us that the missile is subsonic, which means it could be shot down by a sailor or marine with a GPMG strapped to the railing, never mind CIWS or Aster/PAAMS....
Lets just bring back the TLAM-N.
We should have never taken it out of the inventory.
This caught my eye
the city’s (Tucson, Az) biggest employer
Tucson, a city of 535K, the metro area, over 1 Million.
How many Raytheon employers are there in Tucson?
There are approximately 11,000 Missile Systems employees in Tucson (snip)
Impressive, to say the least.