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Posted: March 11, 2011 in d) Air to Air
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Storm Shadow is an air-launched, conventionally-armed, long-range, stand-off, precision weapon, which is deployable at night or day, in most weather and operational conditions. It has been developed to attack and desroy a wide variety of static, high value ‘hardened’ targets such as Command and Control facilities, airfield facilities and brigades.

Storm Shadow made its operational debut during Operation TELIC, the liberation of Iraq, with No 617 Squadron in March 2003. The Storm Shadow missile embodies the following key features: very long range, fire and forget, with fully autonomous guidance, low level terrain following, stealthy profile and penetrator warhead.