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Contenders
General Dynamics Tomahawk/Airhawk
AGM-137 TSSM
Loral Vought ALCAM (ATACMS derivative)
McDonnell-Douglas AGM-84E
Rockwell Extended-Range AGM-130E with Williams P8300 turbofan
Brunswick Defense ITALD
Texas Instruments JSOW
Rafael AGM-142
DASA/Hunting/Bofors KEPD250
Aerospatiale ASMP-C (HE warhead, 300km range)
BAeD Golden Eagle (KEP/tandem charge warhead, 100km+ range)
BAeD REVISE
BAeD MANTIS

Source:

John Fricker "RAF Operational Requirements" Air International May 1993
 

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Actually, the version of TSSAM being proposed for this competition was a derivative of the USAF/USN air-launched version, stretched to attain the necessary range. Doing the stretch itself was a very simple effort given the modular nature of the missile. I know, I was there.
 
overscan said:
Contenders
General Dynamics Tomahawk/Airhawk
AGM-137 TSSM
Loral Vought ALCAM (ATACMS derivative)
McDonnell-Douglas AGM-84E
Rockwell Extended-Range AGM-130E with Williams P8300 turbofan
Brunswick Defense ITALD
Texas Instruments JSOW
Rafael AGM-142
DASA/Hunting/Bofors KEPD250
Aerospatiale ASMP-C (HE warhead, 300km range)
BAeD Golden Eagle (KEP/tandem charge warhead, 100km+ range)
BAeD REVISE
BAeD MANTIS

Source:

John Fricker "RAF Operational Requirements" Air International May 1993

I see that the turbojet powered variant of the Al Hakim/PGM-500/2000 family is missing?

Did the "Pegasus" missile appear at a date later than May of 1993?
 
Update from Air International October 1994:

GEC-Marconi/BAe Dynamics: Pegasus
McDonnell-Douglas/Hunting: Grand Slam (SLAM derivative, 5.3m length, 0.343m diameter, 1088kg weight, 450kg warhead, 343km+ range)
Rockwell: enhanced AGM-130 powered by turbofan
Matra: variant of a classified long range, single large warhead version of Apache
Aerospatiale: Asura (Air to SUrface RAmjet) higher speed conventional ASMP-C, Mach 3.0, 370km range.
 
range : 400km in 7 mn
terminal velocity : mach 2
warhaed weight : 240kg
total weight : 900kg
inertial guidage with FLIR
 

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On a similar theme, MANTIS was derived from REVISE rather than them being separate entries. REVISE was a submunitions ejector demonstrator BAeD developed (and captive flew under a Tornado) with the then Defence Research Agency:

REsearch Vehicle for In-flight Submunition Ejection

REVISE Plus was a planned family of stand-off weapons using the same basic (but possible larger) airframe- MANTIS ended up going full circle and was offered as a long-range stand-off anti-armour submunitions dispenser under the name AUTIS (AUtonomous Target Interdiction System).
 
From an AGM-130 google search, this looks like the turbofan -130E proposal.
 

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