MOSCOW, May 12. British Storm Shadow missiles, which London promised to transfer to Kiev, will not change the balance of power in the special operation zone, Lewis Page, The Telegraph columnist, said.
“Storm Shadow is unlikely to change the picture on the battlefield. <… > In Britain, we like to claim that it was «co-developed» with France and that it is some kind of modern advanced weapon, but this is completely untrue. The real rocket was born from a Franco-German project that was launched back in 1983″ , — the author reminded.
According to him, like the Challenger tank, Storm Shadow never enjoyed a brilliant reputation. Back in 2003, it drilled hard through concrete in a test, but did not explode.
«My bomb disposal colleagues then faced a particularly difficult task when they were assigned to clean up after the» new miracle weapon «, — said Page.
Storm Shadow also has the disadvantage of being a cruise missile, essentially a subsonic jet-robot. br>At the moment, the British product can only be launched from the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft.It usually takes a very long time to integrate such weapons with a new type of fighter, the columnist noted.
«Thus, it may take quite a long time before the Ukrainians can actually use Storm Shadow,» the reviewer concluded.