The MAC system allows seven Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM) to take the place of a single Trident II D5 ICBM within the sub’s missile tube structure. When it comes to putting the large weapon onto Navy ships, the service will first modify the Multiple All-up-round Canisters (MAC) system it developed for the four Ohio-class guided-missile submarines so support the C-HGB, USNI understands. The Army is set to field the C-HGB via a transporter, erector and launcher system that carries a containerized version of the weapon. The system had a successful test of the almost 3-foot-wide weapon earlier this year. The Pentagon is developing a Common Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) that will be fielded by both the Army and the Navy. The vision of fielding hypersonic weapons on all of the oldest Arleigh Burke destroyers would take significant structural work, since the destroyers today launch missiles nearly a foot smaller in diameter than the expected dimensions of hypersonic weapons. Eventually, all three flights of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers will field this capability.” ![]() “This capability will be deployed first on our newer Virginia-class submarines and the Zumwalt-class destroyers. “The Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike program will provide hypersonic missile capability to hold targets at risk from longer ranges,” O’Brien said in a speech Wednesday at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, according to prepared remarks provided to USNI News. ![]() Common Hypersonic Glide Body US Army Image
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