In 2023, the UK and France announced that they would supply Ukraine with the MBDA SCALP air-launched cruise missile (ALCM). Analysts believed the transfer of the SCALP was a bid on London and Paris’ parts to give Kyiv long-range, precision-strike capabilities, especially…
![Photo of the Ukrainian president overseeing a fighter equipped with the SCALP cruise missile.](https://quwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Ukraine-SCALP-Cruise-Missile.jpg)