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{{Short description|Franco-British cruise missile}}
{{About|the cruise missile|the fictional character|Storm Shadow (G.I. Joe)|other uses|Stormshadow (disambiguation){{!}}Stormshadow}}
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| caption = A missile displayed in the [[Royal Air Force Museum London|RAF Museum, London]]
| type = [[Air-launched cruise missile]]
| origin = France & the United Kingdom
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The '''Storm Shadow''' is a [[France|Franco]]-[[United Kingdom|British]] [[stealth technology|low-observable]], long-range [[air-launched cruise missile]] developed since 1994 by [[Matra]] and [[British Aerospace]], and now manufactured by [[MBDA]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-11 |title=The U.K. Has Given Ukraine the Storm Shadow: A Western Missile on a Soviet Warbird |url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a43864887/uk-gives-ukraine-storm-shadow-long-range-missile/ |access-date=2023-07-16 |website=Popular Mechanics |language=en-US}}</ref> "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 language|English]]: "Long Range Autonomous Cruise Missile System – General Purpose"). The missile is based on the French-developed [[MBDA Apache|Apache]] [[anti-runway bomb|anti-runway]] cruise missile, but differs in that it carries a unitary warhead instead of [[cluster munition]]s.<ref>{{cite web | title=Apache (Anti-Runway Cruise Missile)| website=Armed Forces Europe | url=http://www.armedforces.co.uk/Europeandefence/edequipment/edmis/edmis3a3.htm | access-date=12 May 2023}}</ref>
 
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 standoff ranges with even greater precision, MBDA France began development of the ''[[MdCN (missile)|Missile de Croisière Naval]]'' ("Naval Cruise Missile") or ''MdCN'' in 2006 to complement the SCALP. The first firing test took place in July 2013 and was successful.<ref>{{Cite press release|url=https://www.mbda-systems.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Press-release-2013-07-05-FR.pdf|title=Nouveau succès pour le missile de croisière naval|date=4 July 2013|publisher=Direction générale de l'armement (DGA) (France)}}</ref> The MdCN has been operational on French [[FREMM]] frigates since 2017 and also equips France's [[Barracuda-class submarine (France)|Barracuda nuclear attack submarines]], which entered operational service in 2022.
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