State Dept. Approves Possible Sale of Tomahawk Missiles to The Netherlands

PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 1, 2020) The guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) launches a Block V Tomahawk, the weapon’s newest variant, during a missile exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Ensign Sean Ianno)

From the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, April 25, 2025

WASHINGTON — The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of the Netherlands of Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles and related equipment for an estimated cost of $2.19 billion. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale today.

The Government of the Netherlands has requested to buy up to 163 Tomahawk Block V All Up Rounds (AURs); 12Tomahawk Block IV AURs; up to 10 Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control Systems (TTWCS); and up to two Tomahawk Block IV telemetry missiles, as well as other components, systems, training, spare parts and other support.

The proposed sale will improve the Netherland’s capability to meet current and future threats by utilizing long-range, conventional surface-to-surface missiles with significant standoff range that can neutralize growing threats. The Netherlands will have no difficulty absorbing these articles and services into its armed forces.

The principal contractor will be RTX Corporation, located in Tucson, Arizona.

Editor’s note: The sale would make The Netherlands the fifth nation to deploy the Tomahawk, after the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan.