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  • The technologies it developed have sired a generation of land-attack destroyers and ocean-surveillance ships.

    The Navy Has a Top-Secret Vessel It Wants to Put on Display 2009

  • And in a first for its immediate neighborhood, Australia would acquire land-attack cruise missiles.

    Australia Bulks Up 2009

  • All of the above are to be equipped with land-attack cruise missiles with a range of up to 2,500 kilometers, almost certainly of the Tomahawk ground-launched cruise missile variety, which will make Australia "the first regional defence force to have the potent weapons system."

    Australian Military Buildup And The Rise Of Asian NATO 2009

  • The technologies developed for it have sired a generation of land-attack destroyers and ocean-surveillance ships.

    Navy Seeks Home for Secret Vessel 2009

  • The U. S has also accused Pakistan of modifying PC-3 aircraft for land-attack missions.

    Saad Khan: Pakistan's India Infatuation 2009

  • Harpoon antiship missiles for distances torpedoes cannot travel -- far over the horizon -- and Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles.

    Wonders In The Deep 2008

  • New Chinese submarines, advanced surface-to-air missiles, and, especially, short-range ballistic and land-attack cruise missiles have greatly reduced Taiwan's geographic advantage.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Michael Turton 2008

  • Young also criticized Taiwan's recent announcement that it is developing a land-attack cruise missile LACM capable of hitting China.

    US Double Standard on the Taiwan weapons purchase Michael Turton 2007

  • Now a total of seven of the Navy Tomahawk land-attack missiles launched from ships in the eastern Mediterranean and in the Red Sea have gone astray, landed in Turkish territory, and now in Saudi territory over the last couple of days, never even making it into Iraq.

    CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2003 2003

  • In fact, one of the great things about where we're postured is the ability to target from a number of locations, to include the Tomahawk land-attack missiles.

    CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2003 2003

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