Ukraine prepares for delivery of Tomahawk missiles they can’t fire

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1. ***The Telegraph reports:***

   Deliveries of [US Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/09/26/zelensky-asks-trump-tomahawk-missiles-private-meeting/) could take months and they might never leave their launchers, but that doesn’t mean they won’t have an impact on Moscow.

   That is the conclusion of one of the country’s top national security figures, whose analysis sets out just what the arrangement with Washington might look like and [how the deadly weapons could be used](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/02/tomahawk-missiles-change-ukraine-war-moscow-in-range/). Or not used.

   A day earlier, Donald Trump gave his clearest hint yet that he was preparing to supply Kyiv with the weapons.

   He has “sort of made a decision,” he said in his uniquely opaque manner. He then added that he would want to know what Ukraine planned to do with them first, for fear that the long-range missiles would represent an escalation.

   The missiles cannot come fast enough for embattled Ukrainian forces.

   Massive Russian strikes aimed to [disable Ukraine’s energy grid](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/05/poland-scrambles-jets-russian-strikes-ukraine-kill-five/) at the weekend. With winter looming, the attacks add urgency to talks about military aid.

   But the Tomahawk’s 1,600-mile range and ability to carry nuclear warheads are complicating factors. It puts the Russian capital Moscow in reach and Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has warned Mr Trump that they could destroy any remaining relationship with Washington.

   **Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/10/07/us-tomahawk-missiles-ukraine/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/10/07/us-tomahawk-missiles-ukraine/)

2. I’m sure they’ll work it out, if you can fire brimstone and ASRAAM off a small truck I’m sure there’s a larger truck and some confident engineers who fancy giving it a go.

3. I would be really suprised if they get them, Trump will find a way to do a U-turn, he has made his headlines that he is considering it to appease some of the repubilican Ukraine supporters and then he will quietly deny the request. Hope I am wrong but it fits his stance on Russia.

4. The Ukranians have their flamingos, they dont need the tomahawk missile as a whole.  What im guessing will happen is that the Ukrainians is going to open a tomahawk up and going to Frankenstein the guidance system and using it with their flamingos

5. Ukranian engineers: hold my beer 🍺!

6. Western commentary is getting really silly on this one.

7. I’m sure there’s only bloke who could hook a drone up to it and…

8. You need the significant land infrastructure as well as the missiles to fire them. Without that they’re pointless. You cannot just come up with a different firing mechanism.

9. Ukraine already have developed a larger version of the Neptune missile with a longer range and a larger war head payload. So Tomahawk is no biggie if Trump dies not authorise its use against Russia.

10. >But the Tomahawk’s 1,600-mile range and ability to carry nuclear warheads are complicating factors.

    Tomahawk cannot carry nuclear warheads.

    That was the TLAM-N, a specific variant which was withdrawn from use and retired 35 years ago, and the actual missiles were physically scrapped ~15 years ago because they were never going to get used, and they had storage and overhaul costs which weren’t worth paying given that they weren’t going to get used.

    Therefore the only remaining Russian objection is that these missiles can reach targets that they care about.

    This objection is one which can be answered with a quote from Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris without alteration:-

    >”The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind”

11. Well with a little bit of thought and a few of the American Army’s Typhon land base launch systems Ukraine will have these airborne in no time , the big question here is who will be operating the Typhon launch systems…..

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