The Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon, currently being developed by the two countries and Italy, is intended to replace it.Ĭharacteristics A Microturbo TRI 60-30 expendable turbojet engine used by the Storm Shadow, Musée aéronautique et spatial Safran It is expected to sustain the missile until its planned withdrawal from service in 2032.
In 2017, a joint contract to upgrade the respective Storm Shadow/SCALP stockpiles in French and British service was signed.
The MdCN has been operational on French FREMM frigates since 2017 and also equips France's Barracuda nuclear attack submarines, entering operational service in 2022. The first firing test took place in July 2013 and was successful. To meet the requirement issued by the French Ministry of Defence for a more potent cruise missile capable of being launched from surface vessels and submarines, and able to strike strategic and military targets from extended stand-off ranges with even greater precision, MBDA France began development of the Missile de Croisière Naval ("Naval Cruise Missile") or MdCN in 2006 to complement the SCALP. The missile is based on the French-developed Apache anti-runway cruise missile, but differs in that it carries a unitary warhead instead of cluster munitions. "Storm Shadow" is the weapon's British name in France it is called SCALP-EG (which stands for " Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée – Emploi Général" English: "Long Range Autonomous Cruise Missile System – General Purpose"). The Storm Shadow is an Anglo-French low-observable, long-range, stealth air-launched cruise missile developed since 1994 by Matra and British Aerospace, and now manufactured by MBDA. Mirage 2000, Rafale, Su-24, Tornado, Typhoon
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