'This announcement is good news for Ukraine and bad news for the Russian military. Especially so for Russian command and control.' -TomRtweets
With a range of up to 150 miles, the missile is designed to destroy command and control centers, bunkers, and other hardened ground targets. The advantages the missile offers to Ukraine are threefold.First, Storm Shadow will enable Ukrainian forces to conduct strikes deeper inside Russian-controlled territory.
As Ukraine commences its much-anticipated counter-offensive, the Storm Shadow will allow Ukraine to strike Russian command targets across the entirety of Ukrainian territory. This will exert significant pressure on Russian commanders, their forward headquarters, and their associated organization of defensive efforts. It will also pressure Russian forces to take additional steps to mitigate the detection of their command centers, thus degrading Russia's effective battlefield management.
Britain's Royal Air Force places a premium on training for low-altitude ground attack operations. This is one of the benefits, for example, that U.S. Air Force F-15 aircrews based in the U.K. accrue in training alongside the RAF . But for Ukraine, which has only older non-stealth jets, RAF training will offer significant benefits for both the evasion of Russian air defenses and the effective employment of these weapons.
While the U.K. is more cautious than the U.S. would like when it comes to China policy, London has embraced an aggressive posture towards supporting Ukraine since the war began. As the Washington Examiner was first to report, U.K. special forces activity in Ukraine has been instrumental to Ukrainian action behind the Russian front lines.
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