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These are mock-ups of the USS Iowa's cruise missile launchers --- as with most of the other weaponry, the real thing was removed before the battlewagon was handed-over to Dan Pedro.
Each (real) launcher holds up to 4 BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles, and the Iowa class Battleships carry more than any other vessel that ever used launch boxes; a total of 32. This is the missile the US Navy uses when they want to "go deep", but still refrain from airstrikes or nuclear ballistic missiles.
The technical details of the Tomahawk can be found here;
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WMUS_Tomahawk.htm
The Tomahawk is (pardon the pun) a sort of a double-edged sword, however. The good points are;
- It's not easy to detect, track, pursue, engage, or destroy.
- It's a 4190lb munition with a 1000lb payload --- a LOT of punch.
- Lots of different warheads are available.
- It has a demonstrated accuracy so high, it can hit a specific building.
- The Tomahawk can be launched from either ships or subs.
- Tomahawks can fly high over the clouds, or low over the deck, depending on how you want to attack the target.
- It can hit a target 1000 miles away.
But there's some drawbacks as well...;
- It costs over $2 Million a pop.
- Though the accuracy is good, the guidance is easily defeated (some examples below).
- Even the Iraqi Air Force was able to shoot-down some Tomahawks.
- The air-launched version was never adopted, and the ground-launched model (the BGM-109G Gryphon) was retired long ago.
- The terrain-following radar doesn't work over long expanses of featureless terrain, which was revealed the hard way in Desert Storm.
- Flooding, snow, harsh weather, and radar reflectors defeat the Tomahawk's guidance, sending it on a wild goose chase. This is also partly why so many went so far off-course over Iraq --- which the Military Reform Movement warned would happen more than a decade prior.
- Not only have Tomahawks landed in the wrong areas when used, but even in the wrong NATIONS. Some landed more or less intact, and were acquired, reverse-engineered, manufactured, and put into service (and onto the open market) by China.
- It takes a half-hour to reprogram a Tomahawk for new target coordinates.
Each (real) launcher holds up to 4 BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles, and the Iowa class Battleships carry more than any other vessel that ever used launch boxes; a total of 32. This is the missile the US Navy uses when they want to "go deep", but still refrain from airstrikes or nuclear ballistic missiles.
The technical details of the Tomahawk can be found here;
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WMUS_Tomahawk.htm
The Tomahawk is (pardon the pun) a sort of a double-edged sword, however. The good points are;
- It's not easy to detect, track, pursue, engage, or destroy.
- It's a 4190lb munition with a 1000lb payload --- a LOT of punch.
- Lots of different warheads are available.
- It has a demonstrated accuracy so high, it can hit a specific building.
- The Tomahawk can be launched from either ships or subs.
- Tomahawks can fly high over the clouds, or low over the deck, depending on how you want to attack the target.
- It can hit a target 1000 miles away.
But there's some drawbacks as well...;
- It costs over $2 Million a pop.
- Though the accuracy is good, the guidance is easily defeated (some examples below).
- Even the Iraqi Air Force was able to shoot-down some Tomahawks.
- The air-launched version was never adopted, and the ground-launched model (the BGM-109G Gryphon) was retired long ago.
- The terrain-following radar doesn't work over long expanses of featureless terrain, which was revealed the hard way in Desert Storm.
- Flooding, snow, harsh weather, and radar reflectors defeat the Tomahawk's guidance, sending it on a wild goose chase. This is also partly why so many went so far off-course over Iraq --- which the Military Reform Movement warned would happen more than a decade prior.
- Not only have Tomahawks landed in the wrong areas when used, but even in the wrong NATIONS. Some landed more or less intact, and were acquired, reverse-engineered, manufactured, and put into service (and onto the open market) by China.
- It takes a half-hour to reprogram a Tomahawk for new target coordinates.
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The GPS is used as an additional referrence, but the Tomahawk by nature is terrain-following.
That in itself has some serious problems, because in order to have a missile follow terrain, you need to radar-map it. The US military has no satellites that do this, so aircraft have to; if the enemy has fighters or SAMs, this won't happen.
That was pointed out by the Reform Movement by at least 1982, but it went unheeded by the US military. Two years later (and a year after the Tomahawk entered service) a spyplane mapping Syria was shot-down by SAMs.
There was no radar map of Syria, so a Carrier airstrike was sent instead to retaliate... which failed, to the tune of several pilots and aircraft lost.
After airpower failed, the Navy sent the USS New Jersey --- which blew the whole SAM network off the map in one day all by itself. The "Big J" also destroyed the SAM network's command center, and killed a Syrian General and his staff in the process.
Oh, and incidentally, the New Jersey is the same class of Battleship as the Iowa. XD
That in itself has some serious problems, because in order to have a missile follow terrain, you need to radar-map it. The US military has no satellites that do this, so aircraft have to; if the enemy has fighters or SAMs, this won't happen.
That was pointed out by the Reform Movement by at least 1982, but it went unheeded by the US military. Two years later (and a year after the Tomahawk entered service) a spyplane mapping Syria was shot-down by SAMs.
There was no radar map of Syria, so a Carrier airstrike was sent instead to retaliate... which failed, to the tune of several pilots and aircraft lost.
After airpower failed, the Navy sent the USS New Jersey --- which blew the whole SAM network off the map in one day all by itself. The "Big J" also destroyed the SAM network's command center, and killed a Syrian General and his staff in the process.
Oh, and incidentally, the New Jersey is the same class of Battleship as the Iowa. XD
Well, so much for the good old slug-throwers being obsolete. ;3
BTW: I need to send you a PM some time, it's about an idea I had concerning a tank design that popped up in my mind after I saw your "Failed Tank" vid about the Expeditionary tank (need to iron out a few quirks first, though).
BTW: I need to send you a PM some time, it's about an idea I had concerning a tank design that popped up in my mind after I saw your "Failed Tank" vid about the Expeditionary tank (need to iron out a few quirks first, though).
It reminds me of something George W. Bush once said;
"I'm gonna be patient, about this thing, and not go firing a 2 million dollar missile at a 10 dollar tent just to hit a camel in the butt".
He was *specifically* referring to the Tomahawk. XD
Of course, the quote might have been more colorful had he been aware that they tend to land in the wrong COUNTRIES.
"I'm gonna be patient, about this thing, and not go firing a 2 million dollar missile at a 10 dollar tent just to hit a camel in the butt".
He was *specifically* referring to the Tomahawk. XD
Of course, the quote might have been more colorful had he been aware that they tend to land in the wrong COUNTRIES.
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