{"id":348598,"date":"2025-10-24T15:40:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=348598"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:40:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:10:50","slug":"storm-shadow-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/storm-shadow-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Shadow Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>News: <\/strong>As Russia continued its assaults on Ukraine amid uncertainty over the upcoming Donald Trump\u2013Vladimir Putin summit, Kyiv launched a counterattack using its Storm Shadow missiles.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">About Storm Shadow Missile<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_348600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-348600\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-348600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-Al-Jazeera.webp?resize=240%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-Al-Jazeera.webp?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-Al-Jazeera.webp?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-Al-Jazeera.webp?w=770&amp;ssl=1 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-348600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; Al Jazeera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">The <strong>Storm Shadow<\/strong> is <strong>Anglo-French<\/strong>, <strong>long-range cruise missile<\/strong> developed by <strong>MBDA <\/strong>(a defence manufacturer form France).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">It is also called the <strong>SCALP missile.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">It is an <strong>air-launched precision strike weapon<\/strong> designed to destroy <strong>hardened and high-value targets<\/strong> such as bunkers, command centres, and ammunition depots.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">It can be launched from aircraft such as <strong>fighter jets<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">They are powered by a <strong>Microturbo TRI 60-30 turbojet engine<\/strong>, enabling them to reach speeds of <strong>up to Mach 0.95<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">It is equipped with a <strong>multi-stage BROACH (Bomb Royal Ordnance Augmented Charge) warhead<\/strong>, designed for maximum penetration.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">As the missile nears its target, it uses <strong data-start=\"41\" data-end=\"70\">GPS and infrared guidance<\/strong> for precise targeting.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">It follows a <strong data-start=\"107\" data-end=\"138\">semi-autonomous flight path<\/strong>, flying <strong data-start=\"147\" data-end=\"169\">low to avoid radar<\/strong> and then rising to identify the target. A <strong data-start=\"212\" data-end=\"236\">thermographic camera<\/strong> confirms the target before the missile <strong data-start=\"276\" data-end=\"295\">dives to strike<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">In situations where the <strong>missile cannot locate<\/strong> its target, it is <strong>programmed to divert to a crash point<\/strong> to prevent collateral damage.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Range and Speed: <\/strong>The missile has a <strong>maximum range of around 250 km <\/strong>and travels at nearly the <strong>speed of sound<\/strong>, making it suitable for deep-strike missions.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">The <strong>nose-mounted camera<\/strong> identifies the target before <strong>detonating its high-explosive warhead<\/strong> with pinpoint accuracy.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Warhead: <\/strong>Equipped with a <strong>450 kg high-explosive warhead<\/strong>, it is capable of penetrating fortified military structures and underground storage facilities.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Operational Strategy: <\/strong>It is often deployed <strong>after waves of cheaper drones<\/strong> to exhaust enemy air defences before the Storm Shadow strikes precise targets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: As Russia continued its assaults on Ukraine amid uncertainty over the upcoming Donald Trump\u2013Vladimir Putin summit, Kyiv launched a counterattack using its Storm Shadow missiles. About Storm Shadow Missile The Storm Shadow is Anglo-French, long-range cruise missile developed by MBDA (a defence manufacturer form France). It is also called the SCALP missile.\u00a0 It is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/storm-shadow-missile\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Storm Shadow Missile<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11959,164,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-348598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-defence","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}