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| Here's video of the US Navy testing a 'game-changing' new missile |
| 2015-02-12 |
| TLAMs are already used for land attack missions against static targets. By converting TLAMs into missiles capable of penetrating thickly-armored vessels at sea, the Navy plugs a serious gap in its current weapons capabilities. According to USNI News, TLAMs that have been converted into anti-ship missiles that could be used aboard the Navy's newer guided-missile destroyers, which cannot currently use the service's antiquated RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile. The new converted TLAMs would have a range of almost 1,000 nautical miles, allowing the US to maintain a considerable edge over rival naval powers. One of China's most threatening new military advancements is its development of its own advanced anti-ship cruise missiles. However, these missiles would only have half the range of a converted TLAM. |
| Posted by:Hupineger Glomomp15043 |
| #3 Likely not, since they'd be circa Pappy era and likely unstable. Sez he who spends election season trying to chew the bars off'n his cage... :p Likely they'll be 'seconds': old but not obsolete, 'drops' that are sound but don't make the 'A' team, etc. I suspect many of them will have been TLAM-Ns in another life. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-02-12 20:34 |
| #2 Time marches on; I remember when the Harpoon was top shelf stuff; my aircrews were wetting themselves if they even got a chance to do a captive carry mission with one, much less shoot one..... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret 2015-02-12 06:59 |
| #1 I wonder if any of the TLAMs to be converted started out life as a as TASM? Likely not, since they'd be circa Pappy era and likely unstable. :) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-02-12 06:14 |