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The US Armed forces, trying to restore depleted stocks, announced the conclusion of a contract with the Raytheon concern worth $22.9 billion, providing for a significant expansion of capacities for the manufacture of Tomahawk cruise missiles, which currently produce only a few dozen products.:
As indicated in the Defense News publication, the reduction in the arsenal was caused by large supplies to the allies and the active use of ammunition in the Iranian conflict. Raytheon said that the 7-year contract will provide an opportunity to expand the annual production of the Tomahawk to more than a thousand units. The company currently produces only 60 rockets per year.
Typhon:
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The Tomahawk is used by the Pentagon primarily as a means of delivering precision strikes against ground targets at long distances from ships and submarines.
Typhon:
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After the termination of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) The United States returned Tomahawk to land. They are currently being deployed on the Typhon mobile ground-based complex (SMRF), which is a semi-trailer on which a launch vehicle is mounted, which is a modified version of the Mk 41 ship cell for launching spacecraft. Tomahawks are also placed on a ROGUE wheeled platform for firing single cruise missiles.
