Storm Shadow is an Anglo-French
low-observable
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, long-range,
air-launched cruise missile
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developed since 1994 by
Matra
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and
British Aerospace
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, and now manufactured by
MBDA
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. Storm Shadow is the weapon's British appellation. In French service, it is called SCALP-EG (which stands for "''Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée – Emploi Général''";
English
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: "General Purpose Long-Range Cruise Missile"). The missile is based on the French-developed
Apache anti-runway
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Perhaps the most strategically decisive, best known, and first wartime use ...
cruise missile. They differ in that the Storm Shadow carries a warhead instead of