by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:
Do you know why Joe Biden never gave Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine while he was in the White House? Even at such an extremely advanced state of mental decline, Biden still understood that allowing the Ukrainians to have such missiles would put us right on the brink of nuclear war. In addition to supplying the missiles, we would have to supply the delivery platforms, and we would literally have to guide the missiles to their targets. So from Russia’s perspective, these would be American missiles that are fired from American delivery platforms and that are guided to their targets by American personnel. Most of the time, Tomahawk cruise missiles carry conventional warheads, but they were originally designed to also be capable of carrying nuclear warheads. So how would the Russians respond if cruise missiles that are capable of carrying nuclear warheads are suddenly rocketing toward their cities?
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The Russians possess the best anti-missile systems in the entire world, but it is inevitable that some Tomahawk cruise missiles would get through because they were designed to be extremely evasive…
The 5.6-metre- (18.4-foot-) long missile has a range of up to approximately 2,400 km (about 1,500 miles) and can travel as fast as 885 km (550 miles) per hour.
Tomahawks are launched vertically from ships, but they can be launched horizontally from torpedo tubes on attack submarines or from external launchers attached to a submarine’s hull. The missile is powered by a solid propellant during its launch phase. Thereafter it is powered by a turbofan engine that does not emit much heat, which makes infrared detection difficult. It can also elude detection by radar because it has a small cross section and operates at low altitudes. Once it reaches land, the Tomahawk uses inertial and terrain-contour-matching (TERCOM) radar guidance, in which a map stored on the missile’s computer is continually compared with the actual terrain to locate the missile’s position relative to the target. Similarly, the target is identified from a stored image. As the TERCOM scans the landscape, the Tomahawk missile is capable of twisting and turning like a radar-evading fighter plane, skimming the landscape at an altitude of only 30–90 metres (100–300 feet).
Can you imagine what would happen if a Tomahawk cruise missile provided by the United States slammed into the Kremlin?
There would be no going back after that.
But the biggest reason why we must not give Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine is because they were originally designed to be able to carry nuclear warheads…
Submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles entered service in 1983 with conventional (i.e., nonnuclear) land-attack and antiship missile variants, as well as with a land-attack missile carrying a nuclear warhead. The nuclear variant has since been retired, and a land-attack cluster-bomb variant that disperses bomblets has been added.
Let me ask you a question.
How would we respond if cruise missiles that are capable of carrying nuclear warheads were heading toward Washington D.C.?
Would we just wait to see what happens when they hit, or would we strike back while they are still in the air?
If you analyze things from that perspective, you will quickly realize why giving Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine would be an absolutely insane thing to do.
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