Joe Brunoli
1 min readJul 17, 2023

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I suggest you acquaint yourself with the British Storm Shadow missile.

The United Kingdom has provided 100+ of its vaunted Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine.

The UK’s Storm Shadow cruise missile, according to its data sheet, “provides a choice of airburst, impact and penetrative modes depending on the target to be attacked”.

“Penetrative mode” means that the missile delivers a charge to the interior of the targeted structure, and a delayed fuse then explodes the ordinance from within the structure.

According to the manufacturer’s information, the Storm Shadow is specifically designed to be used against “infrastructure targets” such as the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant.

From Wikipedia:

The Storm Shadow’s BROACH warhead features an initial penetrating charge to clear soil or enter a bunker, then a variable delay fuze to control detonation of the main warhead. Intended targets are command, control and communications centres; airfields; ports and power stations; ammunition management and storage facilities; surface ships and submarines in port; bridges and other high value strategic targets.

This is all very interesting, as most analyses of the incident so far say that the explosion that caused the dam to burst came from INSIDE the dam structure.

In other words precisely in the manner in which a Storm Shadow cruise missile strike would work.

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Joe Brunoli
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