Britain’s giving Ukraine access to secret missile technology. Will it make a difference?
With a range of 3,000 kilometers, it can strike deep inside Russia, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier this month it was used to hit a key Russian rocket electronics facility some 900 kilometers from Ukraine’s border.
Made by European arms manufacturer MBDA, SCALP is a conventionally armed, long-range, deep-strike weapon, of which Ukraine has used imported versions with success against hardened targets, including in November 2024, when they were fired at targets inside Russia for the first time.
Kyiv’s use of longer-range weapons has turned Russia’s sprawling land mass, once considered a military advantage, into a problem for Moscow as it struggles to allocate limited defensive weaponry to the increasing number of targets within Ukraine’s range, Peter Dickinson, editor of the Atlantic Council’s Ukraine Alert blog, wrote earlier this month.
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