In the Impact Zone

... missile by Navy representatives and the expert community . During tests in January 2015, a Tomahawk missile hit a moving maritime target . Tomahawk is usually mentioned as an interim solution in expectation of a ship LRASM or another new-generation anti-ship missile, but occasionally there are proposals to make the Tomahawk a replacement for a ship LRASM . BMD: Key Function or Burden? In the 1990s and 2000s, surface forces, reoriented to meet the tasks of theatre missile defence, managed to avoid cuts to some extent. But now anti-missile defence has become one of the key reasons for the heavy load on surface ships and their crews. Ships have to be on combat ...