The USS Chafee (DDG 90), an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, was the first Navy ship to launch a new version of the famous Tomahawk block V cruise missile.
The USS Chafee , a us Navy destroyer, has made the historic first launch of a Tomahawk Block V cruise missile. It should become the new" long arm " of the us Navy, significantly expanding its capabilities. The tests were conducted in the Pacific ocean, off the coast of Hawaii. The tests were considered successful.
An upgraded version of the Block IV, the missile is designed to hit a variety of targets, including moving ones. This is achieved by installing a new homing head.
The Tomahawk cruise missile is the main strike missile armament of the US Navy: it is actively used by both surface ships and submarines. The basic version of the rocket was adopted in 1983. To date, more than seven thousand of these missiles of various modifications have been produced.
In the future, the us Navy wants to arm itself with a fundamentally new hypersonic missile created under the Prompt Global Strike (PGS) program. It is known that the weapon was tested in 2017.
