Raytheon details US Navy Tomahawk order

Raytheon will supply 114 Tomahawk Block IV All Up Round missiles for the US Navy under a $122 million contract modification announced by the company on 10 March.

The contract completes the navy's planned purchase of 214 Tomahawk Block IV missiles for fiscal year 2015 and continues to build the inventory to support ongoing warfighting requirements. Work on the contract is expected to be complete by August 2017.

Tomahawk Block IV missile is a surface and submarine-launched precision strike stand-off weapon with a range of more than 1,000 miles. The missile is designed for long-range precision strike missions against high-value and heavily defended targets.

Dave Adams, Tomahawk senior program director, Raytheon, said: ‘Employed in every recent conflict, submarine and surface-launched Tomahawk missiles continue to be our nation's weapon of choice to defeat high value threats. Raytheon continues an acute focus on maintaining affordability and enhancing the impressive capabilities of this sophisticated weapon system.’

Raytheon and the US Navy are working to provide Tomahawk with even greater capability to add a multi-effects warhead system and multi-mode seeker to engage moving targets on land and at sea.