Britain Is at War With Russia - Imminent Escalation

Editor's note: What will Russia's response be? That is anyone's guess as the pirate City of London increases its intensity and provocations in their commercial war on Russia. One can only guess, but the "military-economic potential Russia brings to bear on Ukraine" - and the British - hasn't been witnessed yet. Those 200 + an additional 400 Storm Shadow missiles are going to be sitting targets. The aggressor in Ukraine is not Russia, it is the British with their US toady (as always British brains and American muscle) doing the heavy lifting. Were the British and the US behind this ambush of the Russian Special Air Group that lost 9 pilots? 

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Source: South Front

Ukraine Received 200 Storm Shadow Missiles, Will Get 400 More

A Storm Shadow missile inside the Royal Air Force museum in London. 

By Wikimedia user (Corrado Baldassi).

May 14, 2023

Ukraine received Storm Shadow cruise missiles from the United Kingdom and is set to receive 400 more in the near future, Ukrainian news sources reported on May 14.

The Storm Shadow is an Anglo-French low-observable, long-range, air-launched cruise missile developed since 1994 by Matra and British Aerospace, and now manufactured by MBDA.

The missile features a GPS-aided inertial navigation system with a terrain profile matching system. For terminal guidance, the missile is equipped with an imaging infrared scene-mapping area correlator system. The maximum range of the Storm Shadow is 560 kilometers. However, it is thought that Ukraine received the downgraded export version with a range of 250 kilometers.

The British and Ukrainian governments have not confirmed the numbers reported by Ukrainian news sources, which may be no more than speculation.

The numbers are extremely high considering the estimate of the UK’s own stockpiles of the missiles. The Independent newspaper in 1996 estimated the order for the Royal Air Force to be between 700 and 1,000 missiles.

The Ukrainian Air Force has reportedly integrated the Storm Shadow on its Soviet-era Su-24 fighter bombers, which have the capability to carry the 1,300 kg cruise missile.

With a price tag of 2 million pounds per a single Storm Shadow, the delivery of 600 missiles to Ukraine would cost the UK up to 1,2 billion.

The first reported use of Storm Shadow by Kiev was on May 12, when two missiles hit factories in Luhansk city. The very next day, May 13, at least one Storm Shadow hit the old internal affairs academy building in the city, marking the second attack with the long-rang missile.

Announcing the delivery of the Storm Shadow in the House of Commons on May 11, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said that the missiles would "allow Ukraine to push back Russian forces based on Ukrainian sovereign territory". Western officials told CNN on the same day that the UK received assurances from Kiev that these missiles will be used only within Ukrainian sovereign territory and not inside Russia.

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