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- The United Kingdom will provide long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine.
- Storm Shadow is a long-ranged, air-launched, conventionally armed, deep-strike missile, which is manufactured by the France-based MBDA Missile Systems.
- It was first produced in 1997.
Range: More than 250 km.
Weight: Storm Shadow weighs 1,300 kg and is 5.10m long.
Purpose:
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.
Features:
Storm Shadow, equipped with the fire and forget technology, also offers high precision deep strike capability.
It features a sophisticated navigation system that includes:
- inertial navigation (INS),
- global positioning system (GPS) and
- terrain reference navigation for better control over the path.
The missile features the BROACH (Bomb Royal Ordnance Augmented CHarge) warhead:
It is a high-technology warhead, which first cuts the surface of the target, penetrates into it and then explodes.
SOURCE: THE HINDU, THE ECONOMIC TIMES, PIB
