{"id":748115,"date":"2026-08-24T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748115\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T11:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:24:13","slug":"burnham-in-ukraine-with-plans-to-hand-over-uk-blueprints-for-long-range-missiles-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748115\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnham in Ukraine with plans to hand over UK blueprints for long-range missiles – follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Analysis\"Cruise missiles are just part of the picture when it comes to decisive weaponrypublished at 12:09 BST<\/p>\n

12:09 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Joe Inwood
World news correspondent<\/p>\n

The announcement today that Ukraine is to be allowed to produce a version of the Anglo-French Scalp\/Storm Shadow cruise missile is a useful addition to their arsenal.<\/p>\n

But, in many ways it is cheap, mass produced drones and high altitude, high velocity ballistic missiles that have, so far, proved the most decisive in the war.<\/p>\n

Drones follow a similar, although far slower, flight path to a cruise missile, flying at comparatively low altitudes. They lack the Storm Shadow’s ability to destroy hardened targets but can be launched in vast numbers.<\/p>\n

Ballistic missiles, meanwhile, are launched at a steep trajectory, often reaching the edge of space, before coming down at many times the speed of sound.<\/p>\n

This makes them far harder to intercept; with the devastation they can cause being seen night after night in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Currently, Ukraine lacks a domestic version of its own, certainly one effective enough to have a real impact at long range. But, they are in development. <\/p>\n

Just a few days ago, a Ukrainian defence company called Fire Point took examples of its two domestically designed and produced ballistic missiles to a defence show in Denmark.<\/p>\n

The FP-9 is claimed to be able to deliver a warhead weighing up to 800kg, with a range of 855km. It is a development they hope could prove decisive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cruise missiles are just part of the picture when it comes to decisive weaponrypublished at 12:09 BST 12:09…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-748115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}