-=> Quoting Jim Sanders to All <=-
 JS> Besides being outfitted with a camera to do "battle damage
 JS> assessment" tasks -- flying over bombed targets to see effects
 JS> of the strike -- the new version should also be able to get its
 JS> commands from the submarines, destroyers or cruisers that fire them,
 JS> the Navy officials said. Such commands now are programmed at bases
 JS> in the United States.
        If this is true, then the Navy has been screwing the Air Force
for years.  (Sorry Elvis!)  The current UGM-109 Tomahawk as fitted to all
US Navy Flight 2 Los Angeles Class submarines gets it's mission profile
from the CCS console, a subset of the BSY-1 Fire Control System.  It's
been this way since 1980, that's why I said the Air Force has been getting
screwed! :-) The new Block 3 (Improved 688, I688, 688I) class are the same
way.
        The CCS Console allows complete planning and control of a mission
profile that most often uses various inputs from the BSY-1.  I can't see
Naval surface units using the Tomahawk not being outfitted with a similar
system either as it's sole purpose was to the reduce the tactical bottleneck
of waiting for mission profiles to be added to the CCS library while in port,
or being sent by satellite from the planning centers in the theater.  
(Although
the fact that surface units are generally available 24 hours a day, and not
usually at the forefront of any military engagement, might have persuaded the
Navy not to install the system on surface units.)
                Christopher
... Reality-ometer:  [\........]  Hmmph!  Thought so...
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