QA test. Tomahawk from the name of the North American Indian battle axe of the same name is a family of American multipurpose high-precision subsonic long-range strategic and tactical cruise missiles (CR) for submarine, surface, and land-based. -

The Tomahawk is a versatile weapon capable of solving a wide range of combat missions. Instead of a standard nuclear or conventional warhead, the missile can carry cluster munitions to destroy multiple dispersed targets (e.g., aircraft at an airfield, a vehicle park, or a tent camp). It can also be equipped with reconnaissance equipment and serve as an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft for photo and video capture, or it can quickly deliver payloads ( ammunition, equipment) to forward forces over a remote location, landing by parachute, in situations where delivery by manned aircraft is impossible or problematic (due to weather and climate conditions, enemy air defense countermeasures , etc.). The flight range is increased in two ways: firstly, by reducing the mass of the flight load, and secondly, by increasing the flight altitude of the missile on the cruising section of the trajectory (before entering the zone of active counteraction of enemy air defense systems)

After World War II, both the Soviet Union and the United States pursued cruise missile development programs with varying degrees of success . Meanwhile, with the introduction of the Polaris submarine-launched ballistic missiles and the Atlas and Titan land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles , and the Minuteman silo -based intercontinental ballistic missiles, the United States curtailed its development of next-generation naval strategic cruise missiles, leaving a gap in the fleet's operational-tactical weapons capability.