Additionally, the Air-Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) and the Advanced Cruise Missile (ACM) are launched from B-52s.
Sales options should include a 300km range version of the JASSM cruise missile or the ATACMS SRBM.
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He has also presided personally over simulated massive nuclear-armed ballistic and cruise missile strikes on the United States .
There has been minimal progress on the commitments to a new bomber, a replacement air-launched nuclear cruise missile, and possibly a new ICBM.
It has purchased from Russia the Supersonic SS-N-22 Sunburn anti-ship cruise missile, which was designed specifically to strike our Aegis cruisers and destroyers.
Those who sent the terrorists to attack America would be only too pleased to absorb a less than tit-for-tat cruise missile attack in response.
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Potentially among the latter is a very dangerous new Indian supersonic, sea-skimming and maneuvering cruise missile developed with Russia and known as the BrahMos.
It also is the result of extensive experience with earlier generations of low observable technology (including the SR-71, the F-117 fighter, and the advanced cruise missile).
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Any response is expected to be far more severe and drawn out than previous cruise missile strikes against Bin Laden, which were seen as inadequate and counterproductive.
Clinton later authorized the CIA to use deadly force against bin Laden and a cruise missile to strike his camp in Afghanistan, but lamely, to no avail.
The U.S. Central Command said a Tomahawk cruise missile struck Iraq's national television building, a key telecom vault and a group of buildings housing Baghdad satellite communications.
Even more ominous is the fact that some of those weapons are believed to be aboard cruise missile-armed submarines known to operate within striking distance of our coasts.
Russia's announcement last Saturday that it will sell Syria the supersonic Yakhont anti-ship cruise missile was a testament to Iran's rising regional power and the US's loss of power.
Ironically enough, NPR's ban came to light just after US cruise missile strikes against Osama bin Laden's organization, which had been implicated in suicide bomb attacks on US embassies in Africa.
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Yemen's government launched airstrikes and other raids against al Qaeda operatives on its territory over the past two weeks, and Monday's statement by al Qaeda accused the United States of assisting with cruise missile attacks launched from offshore.
Given the persistent problems that may compromise the future ability of the B-1 to penetrate those defenses and the uncertain political fate of the B-2 bomber, retaining the right to deploy a sizeable and technologically competitive U.S. air-launched cruise missile force is imperative.
Man stopped fighting with swords when rifles were invented, and you can rest assured that he will equally stop flying planes into buildings when he can fire a vehicle-launched cruise missile into Europe or America from a dirt road in the third world.
But this issue of kind of being confined to these two, admittedly, very grand facilities, but if a cruise missile or even something more simple than that were directed in the right place, at the Kennedy Space Center or at Vandenberg, we're really in trouble.
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In recent weeks, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to sharply reduce the amounts requested for the rail-mobile MX and the road-mobile Midgetman missile, for the B-2 "Stealth" bomber and the advanced cruise missile, and for the Strategic Defense Initiative in the FY1990 Defense authorization bill.
Mr. HOFFMAN: I think, indisputably, suicide terrorism worldwide is amongst the most effective terrorist tactics, primarily because it's not only that--very effective in getting as close to the intended target as possible, you have what is, in essence, the ultimate human smart bomb or human cruise missile, perhaps driving a vehicle or even walking on foot.
The Massachusetts senator voted against defense appropriations bills that included money for weapons such as the Patriot missile, the Tomahawk cruise missile and the B-2 stealth bomber -- all of which military leaders say have become integral to the U.S. force and were crucial to winning the 1991 Gulf war and last year's war in Iraq.
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We should convert older ballistic-missile submarines with core life remaining to cruise-missile submarines, which is allowed under the New START Treaty.
Mr Haggerty reckons this would require (for openers) striking around 450 targets, including more than 20 command, control and early-warning radar centres, 150 SAM sites, 205 aircraft shelters, 32 additional air-base targets, 27 surface-to-surface (SS) missile batteries and 12 anti-ship cruise-missile batteries.
Top military officials described the cruise-missile strikes as "the leading edge" of a multiphase campaign against Col.
Cruise-missile strikes also should be planned against government control and communications centers.
In fact, improving Soviet air defenses will likely dictate that even stand-off cruise-missile carrying aircraft and their missiles will require considerable stealth technology in the future.
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The cruise-missile strikes ordered by Mr. Obama against Col.
They also converted the first four vessels in the class to cruise-missile launchers with no nuclear role after the Cold War ended, which is why there are only 14 Ohios carrying ballistic missiles today rather than the 18 that were built.
With manned aircraft, carriers cannot counter cruise and ballistic missile threats from a survivable distance, and will face budget cuts on grounds of vulnerability, just as the new class of destroyers did last month.
An unmanned aircraft like N-UCAS solves both these problems at once, providing a cost-effective capability that allows the carriers to find and attack terrorists and insurgents, and also to counter cruise and ballistic missile threats from a survivable distance.
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