US Navy to Field ‘Game-Changer’ Anti-Ship Tomahawk by September
Story by Tony Capaccio • 18h
(Bloomberg) -- The US Navy will start fielding an anti-ship version of its Tomahawk cruise missile on destroyers by late September in what the service’s readiness boss sees as a “game-changer” against a numerically superior Chinese fleet.
Fleet Forces Command Admiral Daryl Caudle said an anti-ship version of the US’s best known non-nuclear missile, which is currently used for land attack, will greatly increase the service’s lethality.
“The more fungible you make a weapon the more utility it has for different circumstances,” he said.
The Tomahawk made its battlefield debut in the early hours of the 1991 Persian Gulf War in Iraq and was deployed earlier this year to attack Houthi targets in Yemen.
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