USAF Boosts Maritime Strike With Targeting Systems And Weapons

Lockheed Martin AGM-158 Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile in flight

Lockheed Martin’s AGM-158 Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile has become the U.S. Air Force’s primary maritime strike weapon.

Credit: Lockheed Martin
The U.S. Air Force is increasingly putting enemy ships in its crosshairs, elevating a target set that it long treated as a secondary mission. Although the service has had maritime targets in its mission set for years—Boeing B-52s, for instance, have been capable of mining harbors—prospects of...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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