The long-range air-to-ground cruise missiles “Storm Shadow” and “Scalp-EG” supplied to Ukraine by the UK and France last year managed to “precisely hit” important targets one after another, including Russian landing ships. attract attention. These missiles, deployed in the war in Ukraine since June last year, fly relatively low, making it difficult for the enemy to detect and intercept them, and can accurately hit targets up to 250 km away.
In the early morning hours of December 26 last year, the Ukrainian military launched a long-range air-to-ground cruise missile attack on the southern port city of the Krum Peninsula and sank the large landing ship “Novocherkassk” belonging to the Black Sea Russian. Fleet. The Norocherkassk is a Lopucha-class landing ship, similar to the Minsk, which was destroyed in an attack on Ukraine in September last year.
Storm Shadow long-range air-to-ground cruise missile supplied by the UK to Ukraine. It can accurately hit targets up to 250 km away. /MBDA Corporation
It has a displacement of 3,450 tons and can carry more than 200 landing troops and 25 armored vehicles. It is known that at the time of the sinking she was carrying Iranian-made Shahed suicide drones, which are used in large quantities to attack Ukraine. Previously, in September last year, the Ukrainian military launched 10 Storm Shadows, hitting the Russian Black Sea Fleet and sinking (devastatingly) a Lopucha-class landing ship and a Kilo-class submarine.
A photo of a Kilo-class submarine destroyed by a Storm Shadow missile strike has become a hot topic online. In July last year Storm Shadow attacked the reserve command post of the 58th Army where Russian Lieutenant General Oleg Chokov was staying and managed to kill him.
“Storm Shadow” and “Scalp EG”, active in attacks against Russia, are air-to-ground cruise missiles jointly developed by the United Kingdom and France and used since 2002. The United Kingdom calls it “Storm Shadow” and France calls it called “Scalp-EG”, but it is the same missile with a different name.
It is 5.1 m long, has a diameter of 48 cm and has a warhead weight of 450 kg out of a total weight of 1.3 t. It is a subsonic missile with a maximum speed of 1000 km/h. The maximum range is 560 km, but export use is limited to 250 km, so Ukraine is only provided with 250 km range.
The Conflect Intelligence Team (CIT), a private non-profit organization tracking Russian military activities, revealed the image of the wreckage of a Russian Kilo-class submarine on its Telegram channel in September 2023. It was reported that it was hit by the Ukrainian army’s Storm Shadow missile. /Team Information on Social Media Disputes
It is launched from a fighter-bomber, ship or submarine and is guided by GPS, inertial navigation system (INS) and digital terrain contrast and flies at a low altitude of 30 to 40 meters to avoid enemy radar networks. In the final stage, it can hit stationary or moving ground targets or ships with its own infrared guidance. Accuracy is excellent, within 1m. To date, a total of more than 3,000 missiles have been produced and, in addition to orders from the United Kingdom and France, joint development countries, more than 1,700 missiles have been exported abroad.
It is emphasized that the performance of long-range air-to-ground missiles in the war in Ukraine has many implications for South Korea’s military operations against North Korea in times of emergency. Our Air Force has about 260 Taurus air-to-ground missiles, which have a longer range and are more powerful than Storm Shadow and Scalp-EG, purchased from the German MBDA.
The maximum range of the Taurus is about 500 km, which is double that of the Storm Shadow and Scalp-EG supplied to Ukraine. It is also known to have the most powerful penetration capability among existing long-range air-to-ground cruise missiles. Thanks to the special munition (double warhead) called ‘MEPHISTO’, it is composed of a penetrating warhead and a penetrating warhead, and uses an intelligent fuse to detonate the bomb at the appropriate time based on the characteristics of the target.
Mephisto can penetrate reinforced concrete up to 6 meters thick. When attacking North Korea’s underground facilities, the penetrating warhead explodes first, causing it to burrow beneath the surface. The intelligent fuse recognizes empty space within the underground structure, slows down the explosion of the penetrating warhead, and then detonates at the explosion point. For ground targets, both penetrating and penetrating warheads detonate simultaneously, destroying the target.
Maintenance workers examine the “TAURUS” long-range air-to-ground cruise missile mounted on an F-15K fighter aircraft at the 11th Fighter Wing hangar in Daegu in 2016. /Air Force
Considering these capabilities of the Taurus, military authorities intend to use it primarily to strike North Korea’s underground nuclear and missile facilities and war leaders in case of emergency. As a result, North Korea is also showing a sensitive response to the point where it asked Germany, the producer of the Taurus, to stop exporting it through a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2016.
Military authorities are also developing the long-range (550 km maximum range) Korean Taurus air-to-ground cruise missile for installation on the Korean KF-21 fighter aircraft, targeting 2028. In September 2021, it was first published once a video of a test launch of a long-range Korean air-to-ground missile.
Calls for support for the Taurus, which has a longer range than the Storm Shadow, are said to be growing in Ukraine and in NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). When attacking a large bridge, Storm Shadow and Scalp penetrate the first layer of the bridge, but do not cause fatal damage to the bridge structure, so recovery is achieved in a short period of time.
It is known that this is why the Ukrainian army continues to attack the Chongar Bridge with Storm Shadow, launches SA-5 surface-to-air missiles on the Krum Bridge in a surface-to-surface manner, and deploys unmanned submarines. .
2024-01-07 05:30:09
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