___ During a March 12 appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Navy Secretary John Dalton revealed a startling statistic: fewer than six of every 10 Tomahawk cruise missiles fired during the Gulf War were successful in the mission. "Tomahawk's performance exceeded all expectations in its first operational use . . . with an overall success rate approaching 60 percent," Dalton told the committee. Approaching 60 percent means the missile's success rate was in the upper 50 percentile, a figure...
