“Tomahawks” for Ukraine: is the US really ready to provide new weapons?
фото: Defense Express
The US President’s statements regarding the likelihood of sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine raise certain doubts, because the US army does not have a sufficient number of ground batteries of the appropriate type, so such messages from Donald Trump are just an attempt to influence the Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin.
This opinion was expressed on the air of “Pryamoy” by Manhattan University professor Igor Eisenberg.
“Perhaps he (Donald Trump – ed.) sees some opportunity to influence Putin so that Putin will go to him and agree to a ceasefire… But there can be no trust in his words. Regarding the Tomahawks, I am a supporter of proceeding from reality. And the reality is that the Tomahawks are primarily sea-based missiles. There are land-based installations that were developed recently. They began to be mass-produced in 2024,” Eisenberg noted.
According to him, the US military has only two ground-based batteries for launching Tomahawks, so it is unlikely that the US will transfer them abroad.
“One of them is located in the Philippines. And the second is located at a military base in the US. There are no more ground-based batteries today. This is a rather technically complex matter. There is also a decision by President Biden from July 2024 to place the batteries in Germany. Again, not a sale to Germany, but a placement in 2026, when the corresponding battery will be manufactured,” the studio guest clarified.
“That is, in reality, there are only a few Typhoon ground-based batteries for launching Tomahawks from land, not sea, today. Therefore, the likelihood that the US will sell or transfer these installations abroad, without yet having a sufficient number of them in its army, is extremely small,” summed up Igor Eisenberg, a professor at Manhattan University.
On the eve of the US President Donald Trump said that he had practically made a decision to allow the sale of Tomahawk cruise missiles to NATO countries, which, in turn, could transfer them to Ukraine. At the same time, an Axios source close to the Ukrainian government reports that the White House administration is concerned about whether it will be possible to control the use of such missiles after their transfer to the allies and further to the Ukrainian side.
Instead, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has already reacted to this information, calling the possible supply of Tomahawks to Ukraine “a serious qualitatively new stage of escalation.” According to him, if such missiles appear in Ukraine, it would allegedly lead to a direct confrontation between the US and Russia and destroy any efforts to normalize relations.
Earlier, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin stated about the possible “destruction of relations” between Russia and the United States if Washington decides to supply Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles.
Meanwhile, the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that Vladimir Putin is deliberately sending signals to Donald Trump’s team, trying to disrupt the transfer of long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. According to analysts, the Kremlin is simultaneously threatening to “destroy relations” and devaluing the effectiveness of these weapons, seeking to persuade Washington to make concessions and maintain a secure rear on its territory.
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