Inside a Tomahawk missile factory

CNN's Gary Tuchman takes a rare look inside the factory where the missiles used to strike the Syrian regime are made.

[suhdude]

*"Made for home defense purposes"*

[a.-.f_k]

When a flying telephone pole costs more then your house...

[Traquility-Lane]

Imagine dropping a tomahawk missile on a tomahawk missile factory.

[srella]

The fact these tomahawks can hit targets over a 1000 miles away makes them soooo cool. Also these things can fly around in circles until it finds the target thats amazing.

[jimharris]

That missile assembly bay has been in use since the mid 1950's. Over the years there has been close to a dozen different missile models assembled and tested in that bay. BTW, that facility belonged to Hughes Aircraft (only ever built one aircraft --Spruce Goose) before Raytheon bought the company something like 30 years ago.

[michaelfromaustin]

it took me 30 seconds to find the factory...nothing is secret now a days.

[wzr]

"The missile knows where it is at all times."

[AlbertGonzalez]

All of these missiles are made in Tucson Arizona at Raytheon where I live

[someguydino]

when it comes to a military confrontation; you never want to be involved in a fair fight; dominance is key here

[siqmadiq]

Raytheon executives tired of receiving Tomahawk Missile as yearly bonus.

[reecepempeit]

cool thing about the missile, is that it knows where it is from subtracting where it isnt, thus knowing where it is.

[supreme]

I was a Fire Controlman 1st Class working with Tomahawks. Went through 2 years of formal training to learn it. Best job in the Navy.

[Turtle_the_fupa_slayer]

Being this is on cnn they are referred as assault missiles.

[captainkapalot]

Growing up I always thought these defense company’s like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin only made weapons and etc for the US only.

[puppy]

salesman:*slaps tomahawk missile*
salesman: and this bad boy i-
customer:well shi-

[starlightandeverythingnice]

Russia knock out 71 out of 100 missiles!
Trumpty Dumpty just wasted $200.000 milion hitting a few empty buildings

[Abhinay_Limbu]

"196 missiles each year"
Are they stockpiling or using them?

[Enrique_]

Factory is located in Bakersfield, California. I don’t know why they didn’t want to reveal the location but there’s the info for whoever is needing it

[MrStickyPete]

"Missile executive" is probably the sleesiest job title in history

[bobdopsopdap]

Yeah, that was also about $66 million spent when firing those sixty or so Tomahawks at Syria, achieved little. Didn't do much really. Didn't change nothing.
Imagine donating $66 million to help the homeless of the streets of NYC or California. Money better spent than on missile strikes that didn't achieve its objectives or help the Syrian civilians or even deter the regime from what its still doing up till today.
Americas annual defense budget is $750 billion. Three quarters of a trillion, wow. That's more than the annual defense expenditure of all the entire officially recognized 196 countriesin the whole world ( every U.N member state ) combined.