The Armed Forces of Ukraine will be able to apply point strokes with a wide spectrum of exposure to a depth of 250 to 550 kilometers in Russian territory, if the UK and France allow them to do this.
correspondents of the Anadolu agency (AA) collected information from open sources about the Storm Shadow missiles, which can be used during the Russian-Ukrainian war for attacks on the territory of Russia.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the two cruise missiles of the Storm Shadow of British -made were shot down on November 21 by Russian air defense systems, but their location did not report.
“Storm Shadow”-a large-range missile “Air-Earth” and “Air-More”, jointly developed by the French company Matra and the British British Aerospace.
The production of the rocket in question is still engaged in the British-French-Italian transnational company MBDA, whose headquarters are located in France.
The missile, which was called Scalp-EG in France, was developed on the basis of the French winged Apach missile, but if Apache uses cassette ammunition or cassette bombs, then Storm Shadow is distinguished by the fact that it carries one warhead. < /p>
developed in 1994-2001, the Storm Shadow/Scalp-EG missile has been used in Iraq since 2003, in Libya since 2011, in Syria since 2015 and in Yemen since 2016.
The rocket is actively used by Ukrainian armed forces.
France developed its Scalp-EG missiles in such a way that they can be launched both from warships and atomic submarines and from aircraft.
The rocket can be launched from the Saab Gripen, Mirage 2000, Rafale, Tornado, Eurofighter Typhoon and modified Su-24.
Storm Shadow/Scalp-EG-a controlled high-precision cruise missile with the “AT-UNIT”
function
The rocket is programmed before launch and works on the AT-UNIT system. After the goals are programmed by operators and loaded into the rocket, the target cannot be changed, and the rocket cannot get a command for self -destruction.
When moving to the target of the rocket, it follows a semi -autonomous trajectory at low altitude, focusing on GPS and terrain maps. When it approaches the goal, it gains a height to enhance the blow and accurately affects it, checking the programmed image of the target using an infrared chamber. Manufacturers note that with this method of applying losses among the civilian population, it is minimized.
A rocket with a total mass of about 1300 kilograms has a conical, angular structure 5.1 meters long, 63 centimeters wide and 48 centimeters high.
It is known that the warhead of the rocket with a wave of wings of 3 meters weighs 450 kilograms.
The range of the missile, the cruising speed of which is slightly lower than the sound speed (0.95 Mach), is more than 250 kilometers, according to the information provided by the manufacturer.
As a guidance system, “Storm Shadow/Scalp-EG” uses GPS systems, inertial guidance, thermal and heat and terprom (coordination of the terrain profile).