Taurus KEPD 350

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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