Former UN weapons inspector during the 2003 Iraq War, Scott Ritter, explain how the Raytheon-manufactured Tomahawk missile has a special feature which allows it to be turned into a firebomb on impact.
Trump has already admitted that the missile which struck the Minab girls elementary school in Iran on February 28, 2026, was a Tomahawk, then went on to say that Iran has Tomahawks which it could drop in an errant attack. Prior to that, Trump had been maintaining that the missile was an unspecified Iranian missile.
The idea that Iran has Tomahawks was immediately ridiculed by experts such as General Barry McCaffrey.
"Iran definitely does not, repeat does not, have Tomahawks," Jeffrey Lewis, distinguished scholar of global security at Middlebury College, said in a text message Monday evening. "Astonishing bald faced lying. Childish," tweeted retired US Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, a Trump critic, in response to the Trump claim."
Former UN weapons inspector
"You know, our brilliant weapons designers have concluded that the excess fuel in a Tomahawk missile at the moment of impact can actually be weaponized into a thermobaric weapon, a fuel air explosive. And so they hit the button, turned the excess fuel into a thermal barrage. And the people they saw running were the children who survived the initial attack. They went to the prayer hall with their teachers and they asked the parents to come in and retrieve their children. Parents are on their way. So the movement you saw were survivors going into the building, teachers with them, parents come to them and we put the fourth cruise missile in there, turned it into a thermobaric bomb and burned these children alive. That's this war in a nutshell."
"The father of a young girl reportedly killed in the attack said he had been asked to "come as quickly as possible", but was unable to reach her in time.
"My little girl was completely burned," he said.
"There was nothing left of her. We could only identify her from her school bag, which she was still holding. She was completely burned."
The Tomahawk is manufactured by Raytheon in its Arizona division. It is sold only to UK, Australia, Japan, and the Netherlands.
"By January 2016, Los Alamos National Laboratory was working on a project to turn unburned fuel left over when a Tomahawk reaches its target into an additional explosive force. To do this, the missile's JP-10 fuel is turned into a fuel air explosive to combine with oxygen in the air and burn rapidly. The thermobaric explosion of the burning fuel acts, in effect, as an additional warhead and can even be more powerful than the main warhead itself when there is sufficient fuel left in the case of a short-range target."
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