Background

As a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Oman is working in coordination with Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE to discuss creating a regional ballistic missile defense shield.

Oman’s geographic position offers opportunities for future developments. It’s position on the Gulf of Aden would make it ideal for tracking missiles from certain launch points if radars were deployed there. It has also invested in the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System to provide air defense capability.

Oman’s Air Defense Capabilities

System	Role	Number Deployed	Platform
NASAMS	Medium-Range Air Defense	Unknown	Truck-Mounted; Road-Mobile
VL Mica	Short-Range Air Defense	Unknown	Truck-Mounted; Road-Mobile
Oerlikon Skyguard	Short-Range Air Defense	10 Systems	Ground-Based; Road-Mobile
Rapier FSC	Short-Range Air Defense	Unknown	Ground-Based; Road-Mobile
Crotale	Short-Range Air Defense	Unknown	Ground-Based; Road-Mobile
Blowpipe	Short-Range Air Defense	Unknown	Man-Portable
Mistral Missile System	Short-Range Air Defense	Unknown	Man-Portable

Oman only has Lower tier Missile defense capabilities.  They have an unknown number of The Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) and an unknown number of Vertical Launch Mica systems.

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