Fire Shadow is a loitering munition designed by MBDA for the British Army.
[1] It is designed to loiter above the battlefield for up to 6 hours before attacking stationary or mobile targets.
The cost of Phase 1 of the programme, including concept, assessment, demonstration and initial manufacture, was forecast at around £200 million in 2011.
[3] A Royal Navy brochure released in January 2009 revealed that Fire Shadow was compatible with the space envelope of the SYLVER vertical launch system of the Type 45 destroyer but this option has not been mentioned since the Strategic Defence and Security Review of 2010.
[8] It was planned that 39th Regiment Royal Artillery would be the first unit to receive the system[7][dead link] and would deploy it operationally in Afghanistan by 2012.