At the Eurosatory 2024 international defense industry exhibition, held in Paris from June 17 to 21, 2024, the European MBDA association presented the project of its promising land-based cruise Missile (LCM) for high-precision destruction of ground targets at long ranges.
Image of the MBDA LCM (Land Cruise Missile) advanced land-based cruise Missile (c) MBDA
In fact, as can be understood, the LCM missile will represent a modified version of the NCM naval cruise missile developed and produced by MBDA for the French Navy (Naval Cruise Missile, also designated as Missile de Croisière Naval - MdCN, and was previously known as SCALP-Naval). The NCM/MdCN missile, in turn, is based on the design of the well-known aviation cruise missile SCALP-NG / Storm Shadow, but is made in a larger form factor of a 533 mm torpedo.
The NCM / MdCN rocket in the version for launching from vertical launchers has a starting weight of 1400 kg, a length of 6.5 m and a body diameter of 500 mm and is equipped with a Safram Microturbo TRI 50 turbojet engine. The firing range is up to 1400 km. The missile is equipped, unlike the SCALP-NG / Storm Shadow, not with a penetrating BROACH warhead, but with a lighter high-explosive warhead weighing 300 kg. The guidance system is similar to the SCALP-NG / Storm Shadow.
MBDA has not yet provided any details about the LCM missile, which is apparently being developed as part of the Long Range Land Strike (FLP-T) program launched some time ago by the General Directorate of Armaments (DGA) of the French Ministry of Armed Forces. Judging by the image distributed by MBDA, the LCM launch will be carried out from a four-container mobile launcher on an automobile chassis.
Image of the ground-based mobile launchers of the MBDA LCM (Land Cruise Missile) advanced land-based cruise Missile (c) MBDA
A model of a promising land-based cruise missile MBDA LCM (Land Cruise Missile) at the Eurosatory 2024 exhibition (c) www.navalnews.com
