“It can be purchased in larger quantities and you can afford to lose some to defensive capabilities even as you penetrate. “The key capability of Tomahawk is the cost.” Hendrix said. In 2017, Raytheon’s Tomahawk program manager told reporters at an event at the missile plant in Tucson, Ariz., that the navigation system upgrades will ensure the missile can strike targets even if GPS is taken down. But it could, perhaps, also counter enemy radar that might be used to target it and shoot it down.” “They’ve incorporated a lot of survivability into Tomahawk over the years, this takes it a step further to make it less susceptible to jamming of its seeker or its communications.
“The hardening and the electronic countermeasures they’ve put into it make it harder to find and target with radar, and that improves its survivability. “It has greater electronic hardening to be able to work through jamming more effectively,” Clark said. This is about making it tougher to counter and detect electronically, said Bryan Clark, a retired submarine officer and senior fellow at The Hudson Institute. The first iteration of the Block V upgrades the missile’s communication and navigation systems.
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