Storm Shadow
Sign in to saveAlso known as SCALP-EG, Système de croisière conventionnel autonome à longue portée Emploi général, SCALP missile
air-launched cruise missile
Key facts
- Type
- Air-launched cruise missile
- Place of origin
- France, United Kingdom
- In service
- 2003–present
- Used by
- See operators
- Wars
- Iraq War Libyan Civil War 2011 military intervention in Libya Syrian Civil War US intervention in the Syrian civil war Yemeni Civil War Russo-Ukrainian War Russian invasion of Ukraine 2025 India–Pakistan conflict
- Designer
- Matra BAe Dynamics
- Designed
- 1994–2001
- Manufacturer
- MBDA
- Unit cost
- £ 2,000,000 (FY2023) ( US$ 2,500,000)
- Mass
- 1,300 kg (2,900 lb)
- Length
- 5.1 m (16 ft 9 in)
- Width
- 630 mm (25 in)
- Height
- 480 mm (19 in)
- Wingspan
- 3 m (9 ft 10 in)
- Warhead
- Multistage BROACH penetration warhead
- Warhead weight
- 450 kilograms (990 lb)
- Engine
- Microturbo TRI 60-30 turbojet, 5.4 kN (1,200 lb f )
- Operational range
- 550 km (342 mi; 297 nmi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Diameter
- 0.7
- Mass
- 1300
- Image
- Storm Shadow p1220865.jpg
- Length
- 5.1
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- Storm Shadow
- Commons category
- Storm Shadow (missile)
- service entry
- 2002-01-01
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Article
The Storm Shadow is a Franco-British low-observable, long-range air-launched cruise missile developed since 1994 by Matra and British Aerospace, and now manufactured by MBDA. "Storm Shadow" is the weapon's British name; in France it is called SCALP-EG (which stands for "Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée – Emploi Général"; English: "Long Range Autonomous Cruise Missile System – General Purpose"). The missile is based on the French-developed Apache anti-runway cruise missile, but differs in that it carries a unitary warhead instead of cluster munitions.
To meet the requirement issued by the French Ministry of Defence for a more potent cruise missile capable of being launched from surface vessels and submarines, and able to strike strategic and military targets from extended standoff ranges with even greater precision, MBDA France began development of the Missile de Croisière Naval ("Naval Cruise Missile") or MdCN in 2006 to complement the SCALP. The first firing test took place in July 2013 and was successful. The MdCN has been operational on French FREMM frigates since 2017 and also equips France's Barracuda nuclear attack submarines, which entered operational service in 2022. However, MdCN is not a derivative of the Storm Shadow, but a distinct missile.