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The United States has been able to offer Ukraine only 20-50 Tomahawk missiles, a quantity that is unlikely to materially change combat dynamics or the battlefield situation.
Source: Financial Times, citing Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defence programme at the Center for a New American Security
Details: According to FT, US President Donald Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington on 17 October to discuss how they can force the Russian leader to the negotiating table, particularly through the possibility of supplying Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv.
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Pettyjohn said that although long-range missiles could complement Ukraine’s own long-range strike drones and cruise missiles “in large complex salvos to greater effect“, they would remain a very “limited capability . . . certainly not enough to enable sustained, deep attacks against Russia“.
A former Pentagon official and now senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Mark Cancian, estimated that the US has some 4,150 Tomahawk missiles in total.
The Pentagon bought only 200 Tomahawks in 2022 and has already expended more than 120 of them; the US Department of Defense has requested funding for just 57 additional Tomahawks in its 2026 budget.
The Pentagon declined to comment to the Financial Times on how many missiles it currently has available.
Background: US defence contractors have also shown a new ground launcher, the X-MAV, developed by Oshkosh Defense, which can carry four Tomahawks simultaneously.
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