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Taurus KEPD 350

A German-Swedish stealthy air-launched cruise missile designed to destroy hardened and buried targets from over 500 km, carrying the unique MEPHISTO tandem warhead and serving Germany, Spain, and South Korea.

Taurus KEPD 350
FIG.01 · Europe Image - Taurus KEPD 350 cruise missile. Photo by Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A German-Swedish air-launched stealthy cruise missile with a unique hardened-target penetrating warhead, designed for deep strike at over 500 km, terrain-following flight at 35 m, and multi-layer bunker defeat — operational in the Luftwaffe, Spanish and South Korean air forces.

Overview

The Taurus KEPD 350 (Target Adaptive Unitary and dispenser Robotic Ubiquity System / Kinetic Energy Penetrator and Destroyer) is a subsonic stand-off air-launched cruise missile developed jointly by Germany and Sweden. It arms the Luftwaffe’s Panavia Tornado, Spain’s EF-18A+ Hornets, and the Republic of Korea Air Force’s F-15K Slam Eagles, offering a >500 km reach and a highly specialised warhead tailored to destroy hardened and deeply buried targets. The missile is produced by Taurus Systems GmbH, a joint venture between MBDA Deutschland and Saab Bofors Dynamics, with deliveries starting in 2005. It has no confirmed combat employment, but its political prominence has grown enormously since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as Berlin repeatedly rebuffed Kyiv’s requests for the weapon.

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