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From: MEDELMA@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU (Michael Edelman)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Tomahawk payload, propulsion, etc.
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Date: 22 Jan 91 02:25:43 GMT
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From:         Michael Edelman <MEDELMA@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU>
The Tomahawk is powered in cruise by a small turbojet made by Williams
Turbine here in Southeast Michigan. They're pretty cheap, for a turbojet,
as the military doesn't stock spares, and they only need meet an MTBF of
around 4-5 hours... :)

Payload caries inversely with range, of course. The nuclear varient has
a lighter payload and longer range; the conventional can carry (I believe)
up to 2,000lbs of payload, but is limited to something like 500 miles.

The above is all from *old* info (including a SciAm article of some years
ago) so I wouldn't be surprised if much was outdated.

    --mike edelman