Tomahawk Comes Home In Order to Return Stronger

Tony Pallone | July 31, 2017

We recently profiled the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, the Raytheon-manufactured long-range subsonic cruise missile used for deep land attack warfare. The model currently in active use, the Tomahawk Bloc IV (TLAM-E), was first introduced in 2004. Missiles are scheduled to be temporarily removed from service for maintenance and recertification around halfway through their three-decade service life.

We talked to the company again recently to get a better sense of that process, which will soon see the first batch of deployed TLAM-Es making a return stop at their place of origin.