SCALP MISSILE - DEFENCE AND SECURITY
News: First
French long-range missiles already in Ukraine
What's in the news?
● France
has already made a delivery of a number of SCALP long-range cruise missiles to
Ukraine, after President Emmanuel Macron announced the supplies.
Key takeaways:
● The
SCALP/Storm Shadow has a range of 250kilometres (155 miles) and Britain
announced in May that it would supply a batch of the advanced weapons.
SCALP Missiles:
● It
is a British-French air-launched cruise
missile manufactured by MBDA.
● SCALP
is the air-launched long-range, conventionally armed, deep strike weapon,
designed to meet the demanding requirements of pre-planned attacks against
high-value fixed or stationary targets.
Features:
● It
is designed to engage fixed or moving targets with high accuracy.
● They
are capable of operating in all weather
conditions and can be launched from a variety of aircraft, including the
Tornado, Rafale and Typhoon.
● Range - 250 to 560 kms.
● SCALP
EG is a long-range, air-launched, “fire and forget” cruise missile.
● It
offers operators a highly flexible, deep-strike capability based on a
sophisticated mission planning system.
● It
is equipped with various triple Navigation Systems, and Guidance Systems,
including Inertial Navigation, Terrain Tracking Sensors and Radar.