UK sending long-range Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine

May 12, 2023 - Britain has become the first western country to provide Ukraine with the long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles that Kyiv wants to boost its chances in a much-anticipated counteroffensive.

Related Graphics

View More

U.S. to send anti-missile system to Israel after Iranian attack

Hezbollah drone attack kills four Israeli soldiers

Nearly one million civilians displaced in Lebanon, UN says

Israel’s military expands invasion into south-west Lebanon

Russia’s defence spending at highest level on record

U.S. Army using laser weapons on the battlefield

Israeli troop reinforcements sent to Lebanon

Israeli airstrikes target successor to Hezbollah Leader in Beirut

The humanitarian cost of the Israel-Hamas war

Israel's multilayered air-defence system

Eight Israeli soldiers killed in fighting with Hezbollah

Russian conscription rising since invasion of Ukraine

Iran fires barrage of missiles at Israel

Israel launches ground invasion of Lebanon

Hezbollah leaders assassinated by Israel

Ukrainian drones destroy Russian ammunition stockpile

Israeli military says it has killed Hezbollah chief Nasrallah

Nearly 800 people killed in Lebanon as Israel rejects ceasefire

Kremlin’s secret drones project

Hezbollah fires ballistic missile at Mossad HQ near Tel Aviv

China holds rare test of intercontinental missile into Pacific

Israel launch new attacks after deadly day in Lebanon

Israel steps up bombardment of Lebanon

Exploding devices attacks raise fears of wider Israel-Lebanon conflict

Hezbollah blames Israel for deadly pager explosions

Ukraine may use Storm Shadow missiles to strike Russia

Russia launches counter-offensive in Kursk region

Biden hints at ending Ukraine long-range weapons restrictions

Iran ships “hundreds” of ballistic missiles to Russia

Russia takes Ukrainian town in advance on Pokrovsk

The Storm Shadow cruise missile is armed with a penetrating warhead capable of destroying hardened and buried targets from long range.

Storm Shadow has a range of “in excess of 250km”, according to its manufacturer, the European arms group MBDA. That is significantly further than the high-precision US Himars rocket launchers currently used heavily by Ukraine, which rely on missiles with a range of 70km.

The Storm Shadow missile has been operated by both British and French air forces and has been used previously in the Gulf, Iraq and Libya.