Navy’s New Tomahawk Plan Targets Ships, Bunkers and Distance
WASHINGTON: As the Navy continues to look for ways to reach out and touch -- or preferably deter -- potential adversaries at greater range, it is turning to the latest version of a decades-old weapon to do it.
By Paul McLeary on May 06, 2019 at 12:21 PM
Cruise missiles, like this Tomahawk, fly essentially like aircraft.
Advertisement WASHINGTON: As the Navy continues to look for ways to reach out and touch — or preferably deter — potential adversaries at greater range, it is turning to the latest version of a decades-old weapon to do it.
Earlier this year, the Navy confirmed that the new Block V designation for the next variant of Raytheon’s Tomahawk cruise missile will go into production, while placing orders for 90 more Tomahawks in 2020 and another 90 in 2021, after zeroing out-buys in the 2019 defense budget.
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