MEDELMA@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU (Michael Edelman) (01/22/91)
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ago) so I wouldn't be surprised if much was outdated.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