Updated Navy Missile Strategy Focuses On R&D For New Missiles, Improve Existing Ones

摘要

The Navy has developed a new Offensive Missile Strategy (OMS) to replace an older plan andfocusing on sustaining relevant weapons, upgrading existing systems, and developing newstrike missile capabilities.The Offensive Missile Strategy replaces the former Cruise Missile Strategy that outlinedDepartment of Navy (DoN) plans to support cruise missile weapon systems and develop nextgeneration weapons. The new strategy covers all non-nuclear offensive strike missiles withranges over 50 nautical miles, according to written testimony provided to the Senate ArmedServices Seapower subcommittee last week.