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The neutralisation of high value targets while avoiding unacceptable collateral damage, led to the development of a new long range air-to-ground missile system capable of very high precision in the final phase and with high destructive power.
Storm Shadow/Scalp
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Selected by 5 countries, STORM SHADOW / SCALP is a long range, conventionally armed, cruise missile, optimised for use in pre-planned attacks against heavily defended, hardened and high value fixed targets whose positions are accurately known before the mission.
Operating by day and night and in adverse weather, STORM SHADOW / SCALP offers considerable operational capability and provides a large launch window with minimal Fire and Forget workload.
STORM SHADOW / SCALP is a stealth missile and is fully autonomous after firing.
After launch, STORM SHADOW / SCALP changes from its firing altitude to very low cruising altitude. Its inertial navigation is continuously updated through information supplied by its navigation system following the ground by digital terrain profile matching and by GPS (Global Positioning System). This provides the missile with excellent navigational precision and resistance to countermeasures. The passive infrared imagery homing head is activated during the final target approach phase. Automatic target recognition algorithms then compare the actual scene with the memorised scene, identify the designated target and select the target impact point in order to hit the target with very high precision.
The only difference betweenSTORM SHADOW and SCALP is in peripherals around the missile itself, which are mainly required for missile adaptation subassemblies to French or British aircraft; mission preparation systems, etc.
STORM SHADOW entered service with the Royal Air Force in 2003 and saw operational service in the Gulf during action in Iraq. STORM SHADOW / SCALP will be operated from Tornado, Rafale, Mirage 2000, Mirage 2000-5 Mk II, Eurofighter Typhoon and in the future, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
New MBDA advanced studies are underway to develop a sea-launched version of the SCALP missile. Dedicated to equip the future frigates and “Barracuda-class” sub-marines of the French Navy, the “SCALP NAVAL” will fulfil other European requirements for deep land attack from the sea.
Characteristics
| Mass | About 1 300 kg |
| Length | 5.10 m |
| Diameter | 0.166 m |
| Wing span | 3 m, fins deployed |
| Warhead | BROACH perforating and explosive charget |
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Speed | Mach 0.8 + |
| Navigation | Inertial, GPS and Terprom |
| Terminal guidance | infrared imagery homing head |
| Infrared imagery homing head | Inertial, GPS and Terprom |
| Final phase | imaging infra-red seeker automatic target recognition (ATR) and tracking high precision terminal guidance |
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The TAURUS KEPD 350 is a modular stand-off missile system for precision strikes against strongly hardened and high-value point and area targets. TAURUS KEPD 350 is designed to penetrate dense air defences in very low level terrain - following flight and neutralise high value stationary and semi-stationary targets – with its highly effective dual stage warhead system MEPHISTO. It combines excellent penetration capabilities for hard and deep buried targets (HDBT) as well as blast and fragmentation capabilities against high-value point and aerial targets.
Today’s one and only Programmable Intelligent Multi-Purpose Fuze (PIMPF) enables detonation of the penetrator at pre-selected floors within the target through layer counting and void sensing technologies.
Taurus
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TAURUS KEPD 350 is deployed on the German Air Force Tornado IDS aircraft. A procurement contract has been signed by the Spanish Air Force for this missile to equip their EF-18 aircraft. The integration on Eurofighter is planned by both countries. TAURUS KEPD 350 is a product of TAURUS Systems GmbH, a joint venture between LFK-Lenkflugkoerpersysteme GmbH and Saab Bofors Dynamics AB for the development, production and global marketing of the TAURUS stand-off missile family for precision strike.
Characteristics
| Weight: | 1400kg |
| Length: | 5 m |
| Warhead: | MEPHISTO, 495kg |
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