Talk:Ground Launched Cruise Missile

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In the article is written "officially designated BGM-109G Gryphon".
Does that mean, that the "Ground Launched Cruise Missile" is in reallity the BGM-109G Gryphon cruise missile? An image description says "Two Soviet inspectors look over the nose cone of a BGM-109G Tomahawk ground launched cruise missile (GLCM) slated for destruction."
So is a Thomahawk also ground launched cruise missile?
thanks for helping --D-Kuru (talk) 15:57, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Because of the close relationship among three different missiles (the Tomahawk ship/sub missile, the Gryphon ground missile, and the abortive MRASM air-launched cruise missile), these are often collectively called Tomahawk, thanks to the particularly famous member of the family. Tomahawk is only the official name for the sea-launched variant, but sometimes references to the Tomahawk GLCM will appear. If the image is on Wikipedia, the caption should be changed, though, to the official Gryphon name. Sacxpert (talk) 12:19, 18 November 2007 (UTC)