Tomahawk Block IV
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Raytheon, Navy Add 4,000th Tomahawk Block IV Missile to Naval Fleet
Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have delivered the 4,000th unit of the company’s cruise missile platform, built to perform precision strike missions, to the naval fleet. The company said Tuesday that the Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles have a capacity to circle around a target for hours, shift course while in flight as well as engage […] More
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Raytheon, Navy Put Tomahawk Block IV Cruise Missile Through 2 Flight Tests
Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have wrapped up two flight tests of the Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile at the Naval Air Systems Command’s sea test range off the coast of Southern California in order to demonstrate how service personnel can plan missions against time-sensitive enemy targets. The service branch launched a pair of Tomahawk missiles with warheads from […] More
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Raytheon, US Navy Test Tomahawk Block IV Cruise Missile
Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have demonstrated how a Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile captures reconnaissance photos and performs midflight retargeting of objects. The missile sent the captured battle damage indication imagery to fleet headquarters via its UHF satellite communication datalink following the missile’s launch from USS Gridley, Raytheon said Oct. 5. Raytheon and the Navy […] More
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Mike Jarrett: Raytheon Completes Multi-Mission Weapon Processor Test
Raytheon has demonstrated a new multi-function processor for weapon systems through its own research and development funding. A Tomahawk Block IV missile aboard a T-39 aircraft was embedded with the modular processor to monitor and destroy radio-frequency-emitting objects, Raytheon said Monday. “We have assessed our company-funded multi-mission processor at Technical Readiness Level 6, enabling it to […] More
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Roy Donelson: Raytheon, Navy Update Tomahawk Missile Sensors and Communications
Raytheon and the U.S. Navy worked to test a set of communication updates to a Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile on Feb. 19 in order to determine how it could attack moving targets and connect to command-and-control stations. Testers launched the Tomahawk with a preprogrammed path and maintained communications with base, as it received updates […] More