MOSCOW, December 26. /TASS/. The United States is building up the number of carriers of cruise missiles - destroyers, cruisers and submarines - near Russia’s borders, the editor-in-chief of the military magazine Arsenal Otechestva (Arsenal of the Fatherland), Viktor Murakhovsky, said in the wake of a recent statement by the Russian Navy’s Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Korolyov.
"The US Navy’s systems are armed with the sole type of missile - sea-based non-nuclear cruise missile Tomahawk," Murakhovsky said, adding that the United States possessed the world’s largest arsenal of cruise missiles deployed on naval ships.
"According to different estimates, the US Navy possesses 4,000 to 5,000 missiles. Their carriers are surface ships and submarines," Murakhovsky said.
He recalled that the United States had re-equipped Ohio submarines to carry Tomahawks. Ballistic missiles were removed from these submarines to have been replaced with cruise missile launchers. Each of the re-equipped submarines is capable of carrying 154 Tomahawks.
