The Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) is a long-range, all-weather, jet-powered, subsonic cruise missile that is primarily used by the United States Navy and Royal Navy in ship and submarine-based land-attack operations.
A BGM-109 Tomahawk flying in November 2002
UGM-109 Tomahawk missile detonates above a test target, 1986.
The USS Chafee (DDG-90) launches a Block V Tomahawk during the start of operational testing in 2020.
Launch of a Tactical Tomahawk cruise missile from USS Stethem
A cruise missile is an unmanned self-propelled guided vehicle that sustains flight through aerodynamic lift for most of its flight path and whose primary mission is to place an ordnance or special payload on a target. Cruise missiles are designed to deliver a large warhead over long distances with high precision. Modern cruise missiles are capable of traveling at high subsonic, supersonic, or hypersonic speeds, are self-navigating, and are able to fly on a non-ballistic, extremely low-altitude trajectory.
A BGM-109 Tomahawk flying in November 2002
A Fieseler Fi-103, the German V-1 flying bomb
BrahMos shown at IMDS 2007.
India's Nirbhay missiles mounted on a truck-based launcher