We are investigating the MBDA Storm Shadow – SCALP-EG, one of the best European air-launched cruise missiles. #stormshadow #royalairforce #missile
What is the development story of the Storm Shadow – SCALP-EG?
What are the features of the missile?
Is the Storm Shadow – SCALP-EG a wonder weapon?
Do modern armies need wonder weapons?
00:00 Introduction
01:19 Historical background
01:59 Programme history
02:57 Design
05:47 Users
06:01 Specifications
06:51 Combat history
09:20 Analysis
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Now it even has become a anti Submarine and anti ship missle XD the first sub to be destroyed in anger since ww2
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Good vid.
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Excellent video. I agree with you. The Storm Shadow's last success again proves that it is working. "If it works, don't change". Europe should produce more Storm Shadows instead of designing a new hypersonic missile.
The animations are simple but good. Please keep making.
By the way, the A380-based SCALP-EG carrier news was a fruit of yellow journalism. I remember the French Air Force commander of the time made fun of the journalists.
indeed some of the new hypersonic missiles being developed in the usa are $100m a copy. too expensive for large deployments. storm shadow mk2 could be made with cheaper more modern components?
The US approach since the end of WWII has been to build wunderwaffe in the quantities that everybody else builds waffe. Like, most navies would be glad to have Frigates in the quantity we build carriers. We occasionally throw nearly Tomahawks at a single target.
The thing about those wunderwaffe is that they can actually simplify a lot of logistics issues. If it takes 1000 conventional artillery rounds to hit a target. it might only take a dozen precision munitions, or a single precision air strike. That makes US logistics way harder to interdict because a handful of fancy munitions getting to the front is enough to take out multiple major targets. One small convoy on a mountain road is way harder to notice than 50 trucks on a main highway. Because the US is all about power projection, a 10x improvement in weapon performance is a 10x reduction in cargo ships, transport planes, merchant marine crews, needed to get the thing where it needs to be. And even with the US focus on few high value weapons, the US military is still mostly a logistics organization with a handful of combat troops actually consuming the munitions.
the reviews are great, but I disagree that there are no 'game-changing' weapons, as HIMARS and Storm Shadows forced the Russians to move their ammunition depots, seriously damaging logistics and greatly reduced their attack capacity… and today they destroyed (or seriously damaged) 1 landing ship and a submarine!
PLEASE, you can call it SCALP the 🇫🇷 name 😂 and yes it works and is combat prooven while the TAURUS are kept in some hugly caverns in Germany. FR + Britain have long and very good cooperation on missiles. Should be easy to attach under F16 as easyly as SU. Would be nice to see Kerch bridge destroyed.
Make video on JASSM
Good evening Detective.
I saw news a few weeks ago about a successful hypersonic missile launch from the Landes test range (near Bordeaux in France).
Maybe it was the prototype of this new missile?
Now this type of hyper sonic or hyper speed missile is surely reserved for very high value targets, Chinese aircraft carrier style?
Because Russia does not have ships worthy of this type of machine.
Anyway, this is just speculation on my part.
Sincerely.
not Stealth at ALL russian dealing with so whey See IT
nice
SCALP / Storm shadows just destroyed a submarine and a landing boat !
It's doing pretty well against high end Russian air defense which are considered some of the best in the world. It is definitely a force multiplier for air power in denied airspace. For that capability, the cost is more than justified.
Oh goody another Vunder Vepons…..hitler also really had a thing them too…must run in the socialist blood.
Good weapon made in Taiwan👍
Ukraine has been given hundreds of these as they are close to their use by date and are due for replacement, in the next few years they will get hundreds more😊
Which is better between storm shadow/scalp eg vs taurus kepd?
A bird in the hat is worth two in the junior book of trite sayings.
As a Japanese person, 9:25 am: “It's not a game changer.'' That's exactly right. To be honest, as a country with Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, we have to start from here. In the first video, there was a JP233 fired from a Tornado, which reminded me of Operation Granby in 1991. We offer our condolences to the soldiers who died in battle.
日本人として9:25～「ゲ－ムチェンジャ－ではありません。」まさにその通り。正し、日本国憲法第9条がある国家としてはここから始めないといけない。最初の方の映像にトーネ－ドから発射される”JP233”がありました、1991年の”グランビ－作戦”を思い起こされます。戦死した兵士に哀悼を捧げます。
The storm shadows have performed well, and the 160 mald decoy missiles really make it almost impossible to intercept.
IS the worls Scalp too offensive for this channel?
Storm Shadow doesn't have remote self destruct system, wouldn't this lead a missile turning into an unexploded ordinance? No offence and any concerns we simply are curious about their thoughts in the design of this regard.
Very interesting video, congratulations; regarding the validity of SCALP type missiles compared to more advanced (but not available and very expensive) hypersonic missiles I agree with what the channel claims. But we must also consider the propaganda effect of such a weapon and the trust it could generate in the armed force that had it at its disposal, even if this trust could be a double-edged sword.
Weapons Detective, you are becoming a philosopher 😅
6:43 MTRC only applies to export versions. 8:43 Eg the Ukrainians have the 290km version. The Uk and France have >500 km versions for themselves
Quite an interesting movie. I really like it
It goes back earlier than the 1980s, I did the error analysis on the proposed guidance system as an employee of BAe in the 1970s, as part of my doctorate.
Oh its a wonder weapon , just like the previous 8 or 10 .