Share Within a decade, cruise missile options for the B-52 will include new versions of the conventional AGM-158 as well as the all-new nuclear Long-Range Standoff missiles and possibly future Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missiles.
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After successfully fielding only one new cruise missile during the past 30 years, the U.S. Defense Department hopes to multiply that result over the next decade.
Two new candidates for a future hypersonic cruise missile are currently in testing, while a third has entered the design phase. A subsonic replacement for a nuclear version of the Boeing AGM-86 air-launched cruise missile is in development. Another replacement for the Navy’s RGM/UGM-109 Tomahawk is on the drawing board and may be adapted for a nuclear role as well.
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Davidson: INDOPACOM Priorities Will Help Accomplish CNO’s NAVPLAN
January 12, 2021 8:21 PM
Adm. Phil Davidson, participates in an honors ceremony at the Brunei Ministry of Defence on Sept. 10, 2020. US Navy Photo
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s priorities are paving the way for it to pursue goals laid out in the Navy’s new Navigation Plan, the combatant command’s chief said Tuesday.
Speaking at the Surface Navy Association’s annual symposium, Adm. Phil Davidson pointed to the capabilities he is concentrating on for the theater when asked how INDOPACOM will attain the objectives in the chief of naval operation’s new strategic blueprint.
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The Maritime Strike Tomahawk has been newly-configured to destroy moving targets at sea.
Here s What You Need to Remember: While the Navy has considered options that could extend the service life of the older attack submarines, the service is also facing a nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine shortage. The new
Columbia-class submarines are under construction, but won t be fully delivered until 2042 at the earliest with the arrival pace of one per year from 2033 through 2042. However, given the retirement of the existing
Ohio-class boats, which have already been greatly exceeded their service life, the overall fleet size is also expected to drop in the coming years.
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The Navy recently completed its first operational flight tests of the Block V Tomahawk missile, the weapon’s latest variant, from the guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG-90) off the coast of California.
The objective of the testing was to support initial fleet release of the Block V Tomahawk’s Navigation/Communications upgrade, as well as upgrades to the Theater Mission Planning Center system and the Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System.
“This is the culmination of years of planning and effort,” said the Tomahawk Weapons System Program Manager Capt. John Red. “We’re working every day to modernize the Tomahawk missile, and to deliver the best warfighting capability to the fleet.”