Military Expert Says U.S. Has Just Two Launchers Capable of Firing Tomahawk Missiles
Analyst Konstantin Sivkov stated that the U.S. possesses only two MK-41 launchers for Tomahawk missiles, making their transfer to Kiev unlikely. Russian intelligence would destroy them quickly.
Military analyst Konstantin Sivkov says the United States has only two launcher platforms capable of firing Tomahawk cruise missiles that Washington could conceivably hand over to Kiev.
He explained that one is the stationary MK-41 launcher, fitted with eight cells and typically employed as part of anti-missile systems. Sivkov noted such complexes are already deployed, for example, in Romania, and pointed out that deploying an MK-41 takes considerable time.
The other option is a mobile MK-41 variant with four launch cells. According to the expert, that system entered U.S. service only at the end of 2023 and is fielded as a battery comprising a command vehicle, a transport-reload vehicle and four launch modules.
Sivkov said there are only two such batteries in total — one currently in Japan, the other likely in Europe — and argued it is hard to imagine the United States sending one to Ukraine given their scarcity.
He warned that Russian intelligence would rapidly detect any such transfer, and if the complexes were sent to Kiev they would be struck and destroyed. Sivkov described the neutralization of this weaponry in Ukrainian hands as a critically important task.