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HMS Astute launching a Tomahawk in 2011. A submarine-launched cruise missile (SLCM) is a cruise missile that is launched from a submarine (especially a SSG or SSGN).Current versions are typically standoff weapons known as land-attack cruise missiles (LACMs), which are used to attack predetermined land targets with conventional or nuclear payloads.
The BGM-109 Tomahawk (/ ˈ t ɒ m ə h ɔː k /) Land Attack Missile (TLAM) is an American long-range, all-weather, jet-powered, subsonic cruise missile that is primarily used by the United States Navy and Royal Navy in ship and submarine-based land-attack operations.
An official USN rendering of an Ohio-class submarine VLS system firing Tomahawk missiles. A cruise missile submarine is a submarine that carries and launches cruise missiles (SLCMs consisting of land-attack cruise missiles and anti-ship missiles) as its primary armament.
The United States deployed a nuclear-powered submarine capable of carrying about 150 Tomahawk missiles to South Korea on Friday, a day after North Korea resumed missile tests in protest of the U.S ...
An Ohio-class submarine was used Thursday night as part of large scale retaliatory strikes ... Each SSGN is capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles, according to the ...
On 2 April 1991 Pittsburgh and Louisville conducted submarine-launched Tomahawk missile attacks against Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. [3] Pittsburgh departed in October 2002 for a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea. There, she again fired Tomahawk missiles into Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. [4] She returned on 27 April 2003.
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She was launched on 4 August 1984 sponsored by Mrs. William F. Smith, and commissioned on 27 July 1985. [3] [4] Providence is the first Los Angeles class submarine to be equipped with the Tomahawk missile Vertical Launch System (VLS).