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The Tomahawk can use a variety of guidance systems, including GPS, inertial navigation, and terrain contour matching. Over a dozen variants and upgraded versions have been developed since the original design, including air-, sub-, and ground-launched configurations with both conventional and nuclear armaments.
The Air Force intended to replace the original ALCM with the new version at some future date. The Navy was also in the midst of its own cruise missile project, the Sea-Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM), which ultimately emerged as the BGM-109 Tomahawk, which was similar to ALCM in many ways. In 1977, the Air Force and Navy were ordered to ...
An AGM-86 air-launched cruise missile in flight (1980). An air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) is a cruise missile that is launched from a military aircraft.Current versions are typically standoff weapons which are used to attack predetermined land and naval targets with conventional, nuclear or thermonuclear payloads.
AGM-129 ACM air-launched missile, out of service [70] AGM-86 ALCM air-launched cruise missile, 350 to 550 missiles and W80 warheads still in service; BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile in nuclear submarine-, surface ship-, and ground-launched models, nuclear models out of service but warheads kept in reserve.
7 Submarine-launched. 8 See also. ... Air-to-Air Stinger: Infrared homing: Mach 2.2 ... BGM-109 Tomahawk: Global Positioning System aided TERCOM:
Air-launched cruise missile Anti-ship missile Land-attack missile Surface-to-surface missile India / Russia: 1,000 km (620 mi) 8.0?? ? Under Development: BrahMos-NG: Next Generation Air-launched cruise missile Land-attack missile Anti-ship missile India: 290 km (180 mi) 3.5?? ? Under Development: Nirbhay: Subsonic Cruise missile India: 1,500 km ...
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.
On 26 July 2017, Lockheed was awarded the first production award for the air-launched LRASM; low-rate initial production Lot 1 includes 23 missiles. [47] On 27 July 2017, Lockheed announced they had successfully conducted the first launch of an LRASM from an angled topside canister using a Mk 114 booster, demonstrating the missile's ability to ...