Storm Shadow Missile Statistics

The Storm Shadow missile is a sharp, long-range tool that zips at high subsonic speeds (up to 0.95 Mach) from low altitudes—just 30 to 35 meters above the ground—uses terrain-following to hug the terrain, pops up to 1,000 meters when needed, dives at 45 degrees at 100 meters per second, accelerates hard (15g from launch, 20g max), can reach 560 km away in under 8 minutes with low-altitude fuel efficiency (0.8 km per kg), loiters for up to 15 minutes, keeps its speed steady within ±0.05 Mach, launches from at least 6,000 meters, turns tightly (500-meter radius at cruise), and has a 200 kg/m² wing loading, making it both precise and adaptable mid-flight.

The Storm Shadow missile is a precision prodigy, mixing inertial navigation (with a rock-steady gyro that drifts just 0.01 degrees per hour) with GPS (active phased array, anti-jam, and terrain/ scene matching to sharpen accuracy from 10 meters CEP to under 1 meter at the end, thanks to its infrared wizardry), zipping through 256 waypoints, hugging terrain at meter-level precision, hopping frequencies to outsmart jammers, updating its target 100 times a second, and even letting you tweak its course mid-flight (if you want), all powered by a 1Gflop processor and MBDA’s secret mission-planning software.

The Storm Shadow, a missile that blends military precision with meticulous engineering, weighs up to 1,360 kg (1,300 kg for the base model), stretches 5.1 meters long (4.2 meters without a warhead, with a 0.1-meter shorter stowed length due to wing fold), has a 0.48-meter-wide body, a 2.77-meter extended wingspan, and stands 0.7 meters tall with fins down; its 650 kg empty weight (without fuel or warhead) holds 480 kg of fuel and 150 kg of booster, boasting a 0.18-square-meter cross-sectional area; crafted from 40% carbon fiber composites—coated with 20 kg of paint, insulated with 2 cm of material, and shaped to a radar cross-section of just 0.1 square meters—it features a 1.5-meter warhead compartment, a 1.2-meter engine nacelle, 1.5 square meters of wing surface area, 0.4 square meters of tail fin area, and fits into 1.2 cubic meters, all compatible with 0.5-meter-wide launch rails, with its mass balanced neatly 2.5 meters from the nose.

The Storm Shadow's Microturbo TRI 60-30 turbojet, a compact yet purposeful engine, churns out 5.2 kN of peak thrust (4.8 kN continuously) in just 2 seconds, drinks JP-10 synthetic fuel at 1.0 kg per kN per hour, skips the bypass (a pure turbojet), uses nickel superalloy turbine blades, and manages a modest 0.4 thrust-to-weight ratio—but with 28 compressor blades spinning at 45,000 RPM and a 4:1 pressure ratio, it balances raw punch with quiet practicality, making it a key piece of the missile’s precision punch.

The Storm Shadow, built for bunker-busting, packs a 450kg warhead—including a 50kg penetrator and 400kg PBXN-114 explosive, with an equivalent TNT mass of 500kg—that bores 6 meters into reinforced concrete or breaks through 1 meter of steel, uses a multi-mode, 20ms programmable fuze to detonate 500 meters after launch and arm 10 seconds post-launch, sprays fragments at 2,000 m/s, leaves a 65m lethal blast radius, generates 200 kPa of overpressure at 10 meters, creates a 15m crater, and has a 95% hard-target kill probability, plus incendiary secondary effects—clearly designed to handle fortified targets with precision and raw power.