Tomahawk Cruise Missile

The Tomahawk is a US long-range, subsonic, all-weather land-attack cruise missile (designated TLAM, Tomahawk Land Attack Missile) launched from surface ships and submarines, with a range on the order of 1,000 nautical miles. It flies a low-altitude profile using inertial navigation, GPS, and terrain-contour matching (TERCOM) with scene-matching (DSMAC) for terminal accuracy. Built by General Dynamics, now Raytheon, it entered service in 1983 and was first used in combat in the 1991 Gulf War, fired from the Mk 41 VLS and submarine torpedo tubes.