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Cruise missiles to add punch
- Source :
- Aviation Week & Space Technology. Oct 12, 1998, Vol. 149 Issue 15, 23
- Publication Year :
- 1998
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Abstract
- The US Navy is considering new generation of penetrator warheads to boost firepower of its current crop of air- and sea-launched missiles. Fitting the Tomahawk land attack missile or Conventional Air-Launched Cruise Missile (Calcm) with the new bunker-busting warheads will significantly broaden the missiles' role as a strategic-range weapon. The new warheads could offer improved performance than the Air Force's 2,000-lb. air-dropped penetrator bomb, but not greater than the GBU-37 penetrator weapon. Candidate warheads include the British Aerospace's Lancer Broach and Lockheed Martin's Advanced Unitary Penetrator.
Details
- ISSN :
- 00052175
- Volume :
- 149
- Issue :
- 15
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Aviation Week & Space Technology
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.50362168