Tomahawk

The Tomahawk is a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile. Introduced by General Dynamics in the 1970s, it was designed as a medium- to long-range, low-altitude missile that could be launched from a submerged submarine.The United States Navy has a stockpile of around 3,500 Tomahawk cruise missiles of all variants.During the the 1991 Persian Gulf conflict, 288 Tomahawks were launched.



Tomahawk cruise missles has a network-centric warfare-capabilities, using data from multiple sensors (aircraft, UAVs, satellites, foot soldiers, tanks, ships) to find its target.

It also equips with a TV-camera for battlefield observation loitering that allows warfighting commanders to assess damage to the target and to redirect the missile to an alternative target. Also, the missile can send data about its status back to the commander. It entered service with the Navy in late 2004.