CAPITOL HILL – The Navy has a new Offensive Missile Strategy that replaces an older and narrower plan and tackles offensive lethality in a three-pronged fashion: sustaining current systems, enhancing current systems and developing next-generation weapons to address future threats.
This Offensive Missile Strategy replaces a former Cruise Missile Strategy and now lumps together all non-nuclear offensive strike missiles with ranges greater than 50 nautical miles, according to written testimony the Navy provided the Senate Armed Services Committee. The Navy's plan, which is classified, has “a strong focus on delivering ‘multi-domain' capabilities,” according to the testimony.
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