Cancellation of Tomahawk Puts American Navy On Perilous Course

[W.G.Ewald]

Cancellation of Tomahawk Puts American Navy On Perilous Course - The New York Sun

The Obama Administration will be adding insult with its cancellation of production of the Navy's Tomahawk and Hellfire missile programs. These decisions followed by just weeks the decision to reclassify two hospital ships, 10 coastal patrol craft and a ferry boat as "capital warships."

The Tomahawk decision is particularly troubling, as the cruise missile has for years been the workhorse of presidents seeking to deliver limited, precise, stand-off military responses. During the 2011 Libyan crisis, the Navy flung 220 Tomahawks in support of operations. We launched more than 1,100 at Kosovo.

About 100 of these missiles are used in an average year. That means the Administration's decision to stop production after 2015 will see the Navy's stock of Tomahawks gone by around 2018. And disturbingly, there is no proven replacement in the development pipeline.

 

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