LONG-RANGE STORM SHADOW MISSILE

The United Kingdom had decided to provide long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine.

Significance

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in Feb, 2022, Ukraine has so far received a wide variety of weapons and ammunition, including anti-tank missiles, anti-aircraft systems and artillery from its Western Allies.
The storm Shadow is the latest addition to it. The use of Storm Shadow will allow Ukraine to push back Russian forces based within Ukrainian sovereign territory.

Capabilities:

Storm Shadow is a long-ranged, air-launched, conventionally armed, deep-strike cruise missile.
With a range of more than 250 km, Storm Shadow weighs 1,300 kg and is 5.10m long.
It is manufactured by the France-based MBDA Missile System.
It’s capable of being operated day and night in all weathers and designed to destroy high-valued stationary targets such as airbases, radar installations, communications hubs and port facilities.
Storm Shadow, equipped with the fire and forget technology, also offers high precision deep strike capability as it features a sophisticated navigation system that includes inertial navigation (INS) and global positioning system (GPS).

SOURCE: THE HINDU, THE ECONOMIC TIMES, PIB

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