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  2. Tomahawk (missile family) - Wikipedia

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    Block IV includes Tomahawk Weapons Control System (TTWCS), and Tomahawk Command and Control System (TC2S). [ 26 ] [ 27 ] [ 28 ] On 16 August 2010, the Navy completed the first live test of the Joint Multi-Effects Warhead System (JMEWS), a new warhead designed to give the Tomahawk the same blast-fragmentation capabilities while introducing ...

  3. List of United States Navy Guided Missile Launching Systems

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    Vertical launcher for the UGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile on USN submarines. [5] Mk 48 The Mk 48 GMLS is a vertical launch system for RIM-7 VL Sea Sparrow and the RIM-162C Evolved Sea Sparrow missile. This launcher is used primarily by the Royal Canadian Navy and Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force, but has not been adopted by the USN. [6] Mk 49

  4. BGM-109G Gryphon - Wikipedia

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    The BGM-109G was developed as a counter to the mobile MRBM and IRBM nuclear missiles (SS-20 Saber) deployed by the Soviet Union in Eastern Bloc European countries.The GLCM and the U.S. Army's Pershing II may have been the incentives that fostered Soviet willingness to sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF treaty), and thus possibly reduced the threat of nuclear wars in Europe.

  5. Raytheon Wins $30M Deal to Support Block IV Tomahawk Missile

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    Raytheon's (RTN) Tomahawk missiles is equipped to fly into heavily defended airspace more than 1,000 miles away to conduct precise strikes on high-value targets.

  6. Armored Box Launcher - Wikipedia

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    The Mark 143 Armored Box Launcher (ABL) is a four-round protected launch container for the BGM-109 Tomahawk Cruise Missile. Fitted to the Iowa-class battleship following their 1980s recommissioning upgrade, each ABL contains four ready-to-fire Tomahawks. The use of ABLs on these vessels rather than a non-armored solution was necessitated to ...

  7. US to start deploying long-range weapons in Germany in 2026 - AOL

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    The United States withdrew from the INF Treaty in 2019 saying that Moscow was violating the accord, citing Russia's development of the 9M729 ground-launched cruise missile, known in NATO as the SSC-8.

  8. USS Stethem - Wikipedia

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    This was followed up on 8 May with the first surface ship launch of a Block IV Tactical Tomahawk cruise missile with a live warhead. After the missile left the launcher, Stethem ' s strike team became the first to demonstrate Tactical Tomahawk's post launch execution capability when they redirected the missile in flight. Both the team and the ...

  9. 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.