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Nuclear Modernization

Navy Should Scrap SLCM, Acting Secretary Says

Wednesday, June 9th, 2021

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Navy Should Scrap SLCM, Acting Secretary Says

The Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) is the predecessor to the eventual Long Range Standoff (LRSO) weapon. Photo: Air Force.

The Navy should scrap plans to develop a nuclear-tipped sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM), the service’s acting secretary wrote in a memo dated June 4. Media this week widely reported on the memo that Thomas Harker, the acting secretary of the Navy, sent to the undersecretary of the navy, the commandant of the Marine Corps, the chief of naval operations, the service’s general counsel, and its chief information office. The U.S. Naval Institute posted a copy of the Program Objective Memorandum…

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