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The BGM-109 Tomahawk (/ ˈ t ɒ m ə h ɔː k /) Land Attack Missile (TLAM) is an American long-range, all-weather, jet-powered, subsonic cruise missile that is primarily used by the United States Navy and Royal Navy in ship and submarine-based land-attack operations.
A RIM-156A missile launching from a VLS cell on USS Lake Erie in 2008. US Navy Mark 41 Tomahawk hot launch. A vertical launch system can be either hot launch, where the missile ignites in the cell, or cold launch, where the missile is expelled by gas produced by a gas generator which is not part of the missile itself, and then the missile ignites.
The missiles are pre-loaded into "canisters", which are then loaded into the individual "cells" of the launcher. A cell may have 1, 2, or 4 missiles. Several models of missiles are integrated into the Mk 41 and Mk 57 systems through the Host Extensible Launch System (ExLS) developed by Lockheed Martin. [5]
The US can do what it wants with Taiwan’s decommissioned HAWK anti-aircraft missiles, the island’s defence minister has said without ruling out their transfer to Ukraine.. HAWK is a medium ...
Ducommun Awarded $15 Million in Contracts from Raytheon for Tomahawk Cruise Missile LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ducommun Incorporated (NYS: DCO) has received $15 million in follow-on contracts ...
Japan is buying 400 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles, which could counter attacks from China or North Korea’s large nearby arsenals of land-based missiles.
In 2023, the Army successfully launched an SM-6 missile from a Typhon launcher; followed by the successful launch of a Tomahawk missile from a Typhon launcher assigned to 1st MDTF on June 27, 2023. [5] In April 2024, the Army operationally deployed Typhon batteries from the 1st MDTF to the Philippines, making its first deployment overseas. [6]
The base bleed mechanism reduces the submunition count to 72. Work was budgeted in 2003 to retrofit the M42/M46 grenades with self-destruct fuses to reduce the problem of "dud" submunitions that do not initially explode, but may explode later upon handling. Work on 105 mm projectiles started in the late 1990s based around the M80 submunition.