land-attack cruise missiles (LACMs)

"Year in and year out, administration in and administration out, it's the long-range land attack cruise missile that presidents reach for first in a crisis," Thomas Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told CNBC. "What distinguishes the Tomahawk ...

Fourteen Ohios remain on the nuclear deterrence mission, while four Ohios were made redundant by arms control agreements and converted to each carry 154 Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles. The three submarines in the middle are the Seawolf-class attack submarines. Designed during the Cold ...

Those included H-6K long-range strategic bombers that carry DH-20 long-range land-attack cruise missiles, giving them the ability to hit targets as far away as Australia, along with Russian-made Su-35 fighters. China's claims in the South China Sea overlap in whole or in part those of Taiwan, Brunei, ...

Such submarines are newly capable of long-range precision strike, thanks to the 3M14 KALIBR naval land attack cruise missile, which has been fired against targets in Syria from warships and subs in the Mediterranean and Caspian Seas. The addition of the KALIBR missiles to Russia's Baltic Fleet allows ...

Those included H-6K long-range strategic bombers that carry DH-20 long-range land-attack cruise missiles, giving them the ability to hit targets as far away as Australia, along with Russian-made Su-35 fighters. "What we see now is a show of force and a counter show of force in the South China Sea," said ...

The Navy first intended to scrap the four oldest of the massive submarines, but instead opted to overhaul and convert them to launch Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles (TLAM) at a cost of $700–900 million each. These vessels were redesignated Ohio-class guided-missile submarines (SSGN) and ...

Those included H-6K long-range strategic bombers that carry DH-20 long-range land-attack cruise missiles, giving them the ability to hit targets as far away as Australia, along with Russian-made Su-35 fighters. China's claims in the South China Sea overlap in whole or in part those of Taiwan, Brunei, ...

Dhanush is a variant of the surface-to-surface or ship-to-ship Prithvi III missile, which has been developed for the Indian Navy. Advanced BRAHMOS Block III land attack cruise missile system was successfully tested in May. A Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM) was successfully flight tested in ...

The additional space could potentially accommodate additional weapons, including the ability to launch anti-ship and land-attack cruise missiles from its torpedo tubes or ... The video below shows a South Korean Navy test of a domestically designed submarine-launched land-attack cruise missile in 2013.

The H-6K “can carry up to seven YJ-12 supersonic anti-ship missiles (six on wing pylons plus one in the bomb bay) or CJ-20 subsonic land-attack cruise missiles with an estimated range of 250 and 1,500 miles respectively,” I wrote elsewhere. However, the aircraft, a derivative of the Soviet-era Tupolov ...

The United States previously possessed this capability in the form of the nuclear Tomahawk land-attack cruise missile (TLAM/N), along with earlier weapons like the SUBROC, ASROC, and nuclear Terrier. The TLAM/N was retired during the Obama administration, although they hadn't been deployed since ...

Accommodating a crew of over 300, the Type 055 class features a stealth shaped superstructure and deck fitted with two 64-cell vertical launch systems purportedly capable of firing medium- to long-range surface-to-air, anti-ship, and land-attack cruise missiles. The ship is also armed with a 130-millimeter ...

Pakistan Navy test fired land based anti-ship missile as part of a training exercise from the coastal region on March 10, according to the Associated Press of Pakistan. The missile successfully followed its preplanned trajectory till accurate target engagement at sea, a statement by the Pakistan Navy (PN) ...

In theory, the recently-tested Harba AShM and – if modified with terminal-stage seeker – Babur Version 2 land-attack cruise missile (LACM) could also be used as land-based AShM. In any of these cases, the PN's emphasis could be to leverage range to deter enemy activity near Pakistan's coasts. However ...

Iran is pursuing long-range, precision land-attack cruise missiles as well as development of more powerful space launch vehicles—boosters that would be capable of ICBM ranges if configured for that purpose.” Additionally, new technological advances are eroding America's traditional military dominance ...

The Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System had been intended to address that issue, but Congress shut it down after a radar blimp broke loose and floated from Maryland to Pennsylvania in 2015. The Army has tried to revive it repeatedly, and Williams said the existence of these Russian ...

Responding to a question on whether Washington should maintain its nuclear Tomahawk land-attack cruise missile and air-launched cruise missile, Akiba said, "If the United States were to consider eliminating these capabilities, Japan would like to be consulted well in advance on how the loss of this ...

Over the last 30 years, the U.S. Navy has gradually retired all non-strategic (low-yield) naval nuclear weapons including the nuclear Tomahawk land-attack cruise missile (TLAM/N) in 2013. One of the cited reasons by the NPR authors for the reintroduction of low-yield nukes aboard Navy ships is that they ...

These submarines, known as the Echo I and Echo II classes, were equipped with six and eight P-5 “Pyatyorka” nuclear land attack cruise missiles, respectively. Nicknamed “Shaddock” by NATO, the P-5 was a subsonic missile with a range of 310 miles and 200- or 350-kiloton nuclear warhead. The P-5 had ...

The US government is understood to be blocking the proposed sale of MBDA's Scalp land-attack cruise missile to Egypt. French media have reported that Egypt was hoping to acquire the missiles as part of a procurement of additional Dassault Rafale multirole combat aircraft. It was revealed in November ...

Meanwhile, Finland hopes to purchase the Mk-41 vertical launch system, which can host a variety of naval missiles ranging from the Standard SM-2 to the Tomahawk land attack cruise missile. “The Government of Finland has requested a possible sale of four (4) Mk 41 Baseline VII Strike-Length Vertical ...

The U.S. Navy's $89.7 million request to integrate Raytheon's SM-6 long-range supersonic missile and the subsonic long-range Maritime Strike Tomahawk, an anti-ship missile variant of the Tomahawk land-attack cruise missile, was first reported on February 12. The decision to change the mission ...

The U.S. retired its previous nuclear-tipped, sub-launched cruise missile — the nuclear Tomahawk land-attack cruise missile (TLAM/N) and its W80-0 warhead — sometime between 2010 and 2013. Caroline Houck is a staff correspondent at Defense One. She previously was an Atlantic Media fellow.

If it happens, the newspaper says it will be the first time that Japan undertakes full-scale production of land-attack cruise missiles. Defense planners have asked for ¥7.7 billion in the ministry's budget request for fiscal 2018 to develop the new antiship guided missile. While controversy still surrounds Japan's ...

The recent success of the BrahMos land attack cruise missile, with an indigenously-developed seeker, proved the prowess of the indigenous technology development programme for tactical missiles. The DRDO is now moving ahead with this programme, and is likely to achieve self reliance in tactical ...

Sources close to the Air Force told China Daily that it was the largest deployment of bombers in a single mission in at least a decade, noting that such a big formation "would be capable of carrying 72 land-attack cruise missiles to make a devastating strike". Senior Colonel Shen Jinke, the Air Force's ...