News just in....
News thats been available since 2001 (much earlier if you were in the right circles)...
The military has been insanely low on conventional tipped cruise missile since before Kosovo (the Air Force ran out of CALCMs during Kosovo). The Tomahawk production line wasn't running (and still isn't as far as I'm aware).
Yes, they do need more Tomahawks, they've needed more for quite a while. They've been waiting for Tactical Tomahawk, because restarting the line (by one estimate) would take two and a half years to produce the first usable missile at over $40M cost.
Edit: Made Block V, Tactical Tomahawk - Block V is just a proposal.
Edited by Tim (31/03/2003 23:28)