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Pride of America - The Tomahawk Missile
The Tomahawk is an all-weather submarine or ship-launched land-attack cruise missile. After launch, a solid propellant propels the missile until a small turbofan engine takes over for the cruise portion of flight. It is difficult for the enemy to destroy the Tomahawk mid-flight because radar detection is difficult because of the missile's small cross-section, low altitude flight. Infrared detection is difficult because the turbofan engine emits little heat. It is an all weather sub-sonic piece of art. The land attack version of Tomahawk has inertial and terrain contour matching (TERCOM) radar guidance. The TERCOM radar uses a stored map reference to compare with the actual terrain to determine the missile's position. This is the reason for the missile's pinpoint accuracy.
The average cost of a Tomahawk missile is close to $1.5 million. But this takes into account the initial research and development costs. As a pure production cost it costs less that $500,000.
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