In 2022, the US Navy will arm at least one of its ships with RGM-184 anti-ship missiles, otherwise known as Naval Strike Missile (NSM), reports The Drive.
According to the American edition, container installations c RGM-184 will receive one of the landing transports-docks of the San Antonio type. The Drive writes that in this way the US military will be able to assess the feasibility of using such weapons on their ships.
In February 2019, on the pages of the Polish portal Defence24, military expert Maximilian Dura said that the NSM "allows you to block the movement of civilian ships heading to or from Russia, "thereby" burying Russian hopes for supporting maritime communications."
At the same time, in response to this remark, military expert Dmitry Boltenkov said that RGM-184 NSM are capable of hitting objects of the Baltic Fleet (Kaliningrad region), while military expert Alexey Leonkov assured that this missile, which is in service with the Polish missile division of anti-ship coastal defense, is not capable of interfering with Russian routes in the Baltic.
In July 2020, The Drive reported that the US Navy still has not replenished the RGM-184A Naval Strike Missile of the coastal warship Gabrielle Giffords of the Independence type, used up in October 2019 during the shooting at the decommissioned frigate Oliver Hazard Perry in the Pacific Ocean.
The anti-ship missile NSM (in the American designation — RGM-184) is designed to defeat surface targets. Developed by the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace. The speed of the rocket reaches Mach 0.95, the range is 185 kilometers.