USS Princeton successfully launches a Block III/C Tomahawk

The Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Princeton successfully launches a Block III/C Tomahawk in the Naval Air Systems Command Sea Test Range off the coast of southern California. The Tomahawk missile flight path was nearly two hours and included over water segments on the Sea Test Range followed by overland segments before reaching its final target over 300 miles away. The missile impacted its target, an A-4 aircraft that was positioned in a revetment, on the Naval Air Land Test Range in China Lake, Calif.