US Navy adds powerful new missile in Pacific

The USS Gabrielle Giffords, a sleek, speedy, low-profile littoral combat ship, left San Diego earlier this month carrying the US Navy's new Naval Strike Missile and a drone helicopter that helps aim it. The Naval Strike Missile is a sea-skimming cruise missile that is difficult to spot on radar, and can maneuver to avoid enemy defenses, according to Raytheon, the main US contractor for the weapon.

China on US Navy operation: We have missiles 03:03Key to the Naval Strike Missile is its range of more than 100 miles, more than 30% farther than the Harpoon missiles the US Navy has been using in this anti-ship capacity.The ability to work with the helicopter drone enables the ship to target outside what its own surface radars can see.The Fire Scout drone gives the warship"eyes over the horizon," said analyst Carl Schuster, a former US Navy captain.

A nuclear bomb is dropped on the 'homeland' and what is 'United States Navy warship' doing, that it is not already doing?

You want to help the Pacific? Help Japan deal with storage of radioactive water and with complete neutralization of the Fukushima reactor. Stop the release of radioactive material, incl water, into the Pacific ocean. Stop the destruction of ocean. INDOPACOM UN UNGeneva GOP

100s of thousands die because of not having healthcare....Who cares about missile?

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