The French Navy has initiated studies to convert the SCALP EG missile to be capable of launch from the Sylver.
However The TIALD pod has been sidelined in recent years by the introduction of the stand-off Storm Shadow missile, GPS-guided Enhanced Paveway, and the LITENING pod to RAF service.
A vague picture released with the announcement showed the Minion to have a certain broad resemblance to various air-launched cruise missiles, such as the Anglo-French Matra-BAe Dynamics APACHE / Storm Shadow or the US AGM-158A Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM), which is also built by Lockheed Martin and may have some degree of commonality with the Minion.
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