The record What this system is, where it comes from, who operates it and which of Vigil’s modules it is relevant to — with the evidence each of those rests on.
Record
Conflict relevance
This is the catalogue's single record for this system. It is relevant to the module below; each module's Force Atlas shows how it is used there.
Operators
Ukraine: Supplied by the United Kingdom from May 2023 and by France from July 2023, integrated on Ukraine's Su-24 fleet; a further French batch was announced in January 2024. Stocks are not published and are not stated here.
Battlefield role
Standoff precision strike against hardened and high-value fixed targets: headquarters, ship repair yards, ammunition depots and bridges beyond the reach of rocket artillery, launched from Su-24 aircraft flying inside Ukrainian airspace.
Strengths
A penetrating warhead and terrain-following, low-level flight that make it effective against bunkers and dry docks; a proven record from the September 2023 strike on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol onward, with interceptions rarely documented.
Limitations
Small stocks that depend entirely on British and French decisions and on a production line whose output is not published; a launch platform, the Su-24, of which Ukraine has few and which Russia hunts; and targeting inside Russia that was politically restricted until November 2024. Each launch is a scarce round spent, and the number remaining is not public.
Campaign relevance
Derived: a participant organisation in these campaigns carries a typed equipment association with this system. That is not the same as documented use of the system in the campaign itself.
- The Ukrainian deep-strike campaign Since 2022
via Air Force (Documented, high confidence)
- The strategic campaign against Ukraine's electricity system Since October 2022
via Air Force (Documented, high confidence)
Visual identification
A boxy, angular missile with a square cross-section, folding wings that deploy after launch and a ventral engine intake; carried under the wing of a Su-24. Rarely seen except in launch footage and debris.
Documented conflict use
In documented Ukrainian use since May 2023: the Sevastopol headquarters strike of September 2023, strikes on Kerch ferry and repair facilities and on occupied-territory command posts through 2024; the first strikes inside Russia in November 2024 after the British decision; and, according to reporting in 2026, strikes on a Donetsk-area launch site in March 2026 and on the Kremniy El plant in Bryansk on 10 March 2026. Supply remains the constraint: reporting on remaining stocks is estimate, not source, and is not reproduced here.
Branch & service operators
- Air Force Documented
Assessed as of — 2026-03 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28