Tomahawk away!
PHILIPPINE SEA (May 27, 2019) -- A Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) launches from the aft vertical launching system (VLS) aboard United States Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54)....
....during a live-fire demonstration as part of a training exercise between naval forces from Australia, Japan, Republic of Korea, and the United States.
USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) features Vertical Launching Systems forward (just behind the 5-inch gun) and aft (just forward of the flight deck).
That missile being launched can cruise at 550 mph (890 kph)....98–164 ft (30–50 m) above the surface -- evading most radar detection....carrying a wide variety of munitions....that can be precisely-targeted to go through a specific window of a specific building roughly 1,000 miles (1,700 km) away!
(Yeah....”Tomahawk” is a most appropriate name for this deadly weapon!)
Boatwain’s Mate 2nd Class Ryan Dorsey, USN, alerts the crew over the ship’s announcing system (1MC) of the impending Tomahawk missile launch.
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>>Top photo: Taken from the starboard bridge wing, looking aft....Second photo: Taken from a remote camera mounted on the stern of the ship.
>>Top two photos & bottom photo: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Taylor DiMartino, USN
