The U.S. Marine Corps is cutting its Tomahawk missile program, opting instead for a more nimble solution: the Navy-Marine Corps Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, or NMESIS. The abrupt shift comes after the Corps determined its Long Range Fires (LRF) launchers, designed to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles, couldn’t operate effectively in the expeditionary and littoral environments that define the Pacific theater.
