![]() ![]() ![]() With the Oshkosh Defense TerraMax Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) Technology, MTVRs can be made unmanned. Air Force C-130, C-17, and C-5 cargo planes and can be under-slung by a Marine CH-53 helicopter. NSMs have a range of 100+ nautical miles (115 miles/185 kilometers), are 12.3 feet/3.74 meters long, and 13.5 inches/34.29 centimeters wide with a 500-pound/226 kilogram high-explosive penetration warhead. Marines’ NMESIS JLTV-launched RGM-184A Naval Strike Missile (NSM) is a stealthy sea-skimming sensor-avoiding Anti-Ship missile with a passive seeker that has automatic target recognition and is resistant to electronic countermeasures. (In comparison, the Kongsberg Defense, Raytheon Missile Systems’ U.S. TLAM warheads range from 1,000-pounds/453 kilograms of high explosives for the TLAM-C/E variants to a dispenser for 166 BLU-97 submunitions in the TLAM-D to the Block VB having a Joint Multiple Effects Warhead System that will enter service in 2024. Each weighs in at 2,900 pounds/1,315 kilograms, or 3,500 pounds/1,587 kilograms with booster. The Tomahawk missile themselves are not petite, each with a length of 18.3 feet/5.5 meters, and with a rocket booster added, 20.6 feet/6.27 meters and having a diameter of 20.4 inches/51.8 centimeters. Navy received its first Block V configured Tomahawk missile from Raytheon on March 25 this year. Production has been robust with the 4,000th Tactical Tomahawk delivered by Raytheon in August of 2017. Block IV TLAMs will be recertified and retrofitted after fifteen years in service to be upgraded to Block V variants with the first deliveries in 2020. The TLAM Block V improves on the TLAM’s navigation and communications, and Block V production started in 2020. TLAM-Es can also loiter over an area before selecting and engaging the best target. #Tomahawk cruise missile seriesAccording to the Seapower’s 20 Almanac, the UGM-109 TLAMs have matured through a series of Block upgrades with the Block IV (TLAM-E) utilizing two-way satellite communications that allow for the reprogramming of the missile, or sending the missile on a new mission flightpath, and also allow the TLAM to transmit missile health and status messages during flight in addition to using the GPS and terrain-matching imagery navigation methods. ![]()
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