
House lawmakers are considering whether the Navy should plan on buying 96 additional Tomahawk cruise missiles, nearly doubling the 100 the Navy requested in its fiscal 2015 budget proposal. The possibility of adding more Tomahawks to the Navy’s requested was proposed in language released Tuesday by the House Armed Services Committee’s seapower panel that will be under consideration Wednesday for potential inclusion in the authorization bill for fiscal year 2015. The Navy in outlining its proposal in March said it…