[Boiler Plate]

So the the weak point is the F-18 getting shot down?

[Red Badger]

We’re obviously playing the wrong game................

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[pfflier]

I don't get the hype. We built Tomahawk TASM variants in the 1980's Why is this now "new" tecnology? Also MacDac built the Harpoon and the Tomahawk used it's anti-ship guidance system.

Most TASM's were converted to TLAM variants. So, the best I can say is that Tomahawk anti-shiop variants are being reborn.

[McGruff]

It’s a 1000 mile anti-ship cruise missile.

Why just an anti-ship missile? Seems like there could be multiple uses for it.

[Berlin_Freeper]

“This is a significant accomplishment,” said Capt. Joe Mauser, Tomahawk Weapons System (PMA-280) program manager. "It demonstrates the viability of long-range communications for position updates of moving targets. This success further demonstrates the existing capability of Tomahawk as a netted weapon, and in doing so, extends its reach beyond fixed and re-locatable points to moving targets.”

[Berlin_Freeper]

If the Navy can perfect the methodology, it would give the service an almost 1,000 nautical mile extension – the range of the TLAM — of its lethal anti-surface radius for its newer guided missile destroyers, which are not fitted with the service’s aging RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile.

[gaijin]

Later

[skyman]

Doesn’t their slow speed this make them defensible?

China and Russia have some fairly long range anti-shop misslies that are mach 2 or 3 which makes them much harder to shoot down, don’t they?

[Rappini]

Those pidgin’s had wheels up before the missile got there.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I imagine next generation naval weaponry as very heavy with fleets of drone aircraft, surface and subsurface craft.

Importantly, a UUV submarine, for example, does not have to be particularly quiet as it engages potential targets, and can even use active sonar against them. And if it does not encounter any enemy, it can be picked up at leisure, later.

[RetiredArmy]

Yeah. When I was a kid, we called them Roman candles. Probably what they are going to use.