Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110320:19:27:00
Retired army captain to give us a 101 on what tomahawks are, for one. and how you decide when tomahawks are the most appropriate you know tactic and which to use in a mission like this. so first off, what are they? they generally originate from ships. >> they originate from ships and submarines. but if you think of a tomahawk, think of a goal post in a football field, it's that tall. sort of a big tree and it's subsonic, it's unmanned, it flies up to 500 miles per hour, somewhere in that range. but it does it very, very low. it can carry 1,000-pound warhead and it has a warhead that has little...
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