04-09-07, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by SeaQueen
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Originally Posted by Sea Demon
Did anybody else watch this? Did you see the part at the end when they were running an exercise against an "enemy" ship? Well, I found it interesting that they dispatched a Tomahawk missile against it in the exercise. Anybody else catch that? I'm not asking anyone to confirm anything. But I found this quite interesting considering there is no TASM's anymore and there was speculation recently that the current form of UGM-109 is rumoured to be anti-ship capable. If so, removing the Harpoon from US Navy subs may not be too bad of a drawback. And Oscar Austins may have more of a longer anti-ship reach than we might think.
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Read This:
https://wrc.navair-rdte.navy.mil/war...m/overtext.htm
Block IV Tomahawks are capable against land moving targets and ships. They're vague about what sort of sensor they have, though. It may or may not have radar terminal homing like in DW. I think the real driver was the capability against land moving targets and the anti-ship capability came for free. |
It also says " Current plans call for...missiles to be produced by remanufacturing currently bunkered TASMs" So perhaps they do share the radar termanal homing. Either that or they just wanted to get rid of the the TSAMs 
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