CH 1 Introduction

USS Cape St.George fires a tomahawk missile. Surface-ship-launched.

Section 1 : Document Organization
Section 2 : Tomahawk Weapon System
Section 3 : Tomahawk Cruise Missile
Section 4 : Torpedo Tube Launch Configuration
Section 5 : Capsule Launching System
Section 6 : Vertical Launching System Configuration

Forward :

This document consists of four volumes which provide information, data, and procedures for
operations and support of the Tomahawk Weapon System (TWS).

a. Volume 1. Tomahawk Cruise Missile System Description

This volume presents information pertinent to the submarine and surface launch Tomahawk
Weapon System (TWS) to include physical and functional descriptions of system components,
safety and security considerations, and operations aboard platforms employing TWS.

b. Volume 2. Tomahawk cruise Missile General Handling Procedures

Procedural Guides (PGs), Operations Procedures (OPs) and
Standard Inspection Procedures (SIP) to permit afloat and ashore activities to perform receipt,
handling, inspection, transfer, and reconfiguration processes for Tomahawk Cruise Missile
(TCM) configurations.

c. Volume 3. Tomahawk Cruise Missile Maintenance Procedures

Repairs Parts Breakdown

d. Volume 4. Tomahawk Cruise Missile UGM Warhead Installation/Removal and Air
Vehicle Maintenance

Handle and prepare UGM 109A All-Up-Rounds for installation or removal of the warhead.

Section 1. Document Organization 

1.1 Scope

The document presents information pertinent to the submarine-launched and
surface-ship-launch Tomahawk Weapon System (TWS) to include physical and functional of the
weapon system.

1.1.1 Chapter 1.

Physical descriptions of weapon systems.

1.1.2 Chapter 2.

Security and safety requirements.

1.1.3 Chapter 3.

Functional description of TWS components and interface between the TCM and its launch
platforms.

1.1.4 Chapter 4.

Tomahawk Weapon System operations aboard launch platforms to include a description of the
launch platform and on board equipment used to land, store and launch
Tomahawk Cruise Missile.

Section 2. Tomahawk Weapon System

1.2 Tomahawk Weapon System Description.

1.3 Mission

With the capability to use surface and sub-surface platforms to employ, either in independently
or in coordination with other strike capabilities, highly accurate,  all-weather
Tomahawk Cruise Missile, armed with a variety of highly destructive payloads, against land
targets at stand-off ranges.

1.4 All-Up-Round

Horizontal Submarine Launch
Vertical Submarine Launch
Surface Launch

1.4.1 Tactical AUR

Used for land-attack mission to strike high-value or heavily defended targets.

A rocket motor to boost it to specified altitude after launch.
A sustaining engine for cruising to the target.
Wings and fins to affect course changes.
A guidance section and an explosive warhead.

1.4.2 Exercise AUR

1.5 Missile Identification System

1.6 Support Equipmemt

1.7 Loading and Handling Training Equipmemt

1.8 Documentation

1.8.1 Record Book

1.8.2 Procedural Documentation

1.9 Reports

Section 3. Tomahawk Cruise Missile

1.10 General

1.11 Tactical Variants

1.11.1 Land Attack 109A

A long range missile which carries a non-conventional W80 Warhead with guidance provided
by Terrain Contour Match (TERCOM) techniques. The missile has a modular construction
aluminium airframe.

Land-Attack 109A

1. Guidance Set

2. W80 Warhead

3. Fuel Expansion Bladder

4. CMA Thermal Battery (Dry Well, RH Side)

5. Wing

6. Wing Actuator

7. Standard Mission Cover

8. Lateral Through-Slot 

9. Door Actuator

10. Air Data package

11. Mission Control Module

12. Pneumatic Storage Bottle Housing

13. DC Generator-Regulator

14. Sustainer Engine

15. Fin Power Switching Amplifier

16. Fin Servoactuator

17. Fin

18. Rocket Motor

19. Engine Inlet

20. Inlet Actuator

21. Pitot Head

22. Fuel Expansion Bladder

23. Fuel/Defuel Panel

24. Fuel Hopper

25. Coolant Pump (Guidance Set)

26. Radar Altimeter Antenna

27. Nose Cone Kit or Nose Fairing

1.11.1.1 Guidance Section

Positive Retention Nose Cone :

The positive retention nose cone is made of aluminium alloy and threads onto the missile

forward body payload section.

Cruise Missile Guidance Set (CMGS):

missile navigation, guidance and control functions and consists of a

Reference Measurement Unit and Computer, a Rate Gyro/Accelerometer Package (RGAP),

a Missile Radar Altimeter (MRA), an Analogy Filter Assembly (AFA), 

a Warhead Interface Unit (WIU), a DC-DC Converter Module and a Batter Power Unit.

The CMGS attaches to the payload section via a mechanical hinge and link assembly using

five mounting bolts. 

Cruise Missile Guidance Set (CMGS)

Cruise Missile Guidance Set

1.11.1.2 Forward Body Payload Section

1.11.1.3 Forward Body Fuel Section

Fuel and expansion bladder to accommodate changes in fuel volume due to fuel expansion

and contraction.

1.11.2 Land-Attack 109C.

A medium range missile armed with a WDU-25/B or WDU-36/B conventional warhead with

guidance provided by Terrain Contour Match (TERCOM) techniques and 

Digital Scene Matching Area Correlations (DSMAC) and a 

Global Positioning System Subsystem to increase terminal accuracy.

Land-Attack 109C

1. Guidance Set

2. DSMAC (Digital Scene Matching Correlation)

3. Junction Box

4. Warhead Support Wedge

5. Wing

6. Warhead Fuze-Booster

7. CMA Thermal Battery

8. Wing Actuator

9. Standard Mission Cover

10. Lateral Through-Slot

11. Door Actuator

12. Air Data Package

13. Mission Control Module

14. Pneumatic Storage Bottle Housing

15. DC generator-Regulator

16. Sustainer Engine

17. Fin Power Switching Amplifier

18. Fin Servo-actuator

19. Rocket Motor

20. Fin

21. Engine Inlet

22. Pitot Head

23. Fuel Expansion Bladder

24. Fuel/Defuel Panel

25. Fuel Hopper

26. Coolant Pump

27. Dual Air Valve (Warhead Fuze Prearm)

28. WDU-25/B

29. Illuminator Assembly

30. Radar Altimeter Antenna 

31. Sensor Window Cover & Thruster

32. Nose Cone Kit or Nose Fairing

33. GPSS Receiver Processor Unit

34. GPSS Antenna  Module

1.11.2.1 Forward Body Guidance Section.