Tomahawk Weapons System Program News Today

NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, Patuxent River, Md.: The Navy’s Tomahawk Weapons System program office (PMA-280) welcomed a new program manager during a ceremony July 6 in Naval Air Station Patuxent River.

Advertisement The Navy recently completed its first operational flight tests of the Block V Tomahawk missile, the weapon’s latest variant, from the guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG-90) off the coast of California. The objective of the testing was to support initial fleet release of the Block V Tomahawk’s Navigation/Communications upgrade, as well as upgrades to the Theater Mission Planning Center system and the Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System. “This is the culmination of...