MBDA Fire Shadow

MBDA Fire Shadow was a surface-launched loitering munition that MBDA developed, as lead of an industry team, for the British Army's Indirect Fire Precision Attack programme. It was meant to be fired towards a target area, circle above the battlefield for up to about six hours and then be committed by an operator against a stationary or moving target, with a range of roughly 100 km and a weight under 200 kg. Test firings took place at Vidsel in Sweden in 2010 and 2011 and the first development deliveries to the Army followed in 2012, but the weapon was never fielded operationally. The Ministry of Defence cancelled it in its 2017 to 2018 budget, writing the project off at a loss of about 95 million pounds, and a maritime version stayed a private MBDA venture with no customer.