Army Recognition

In December 2018, December 27, 2018, Lithuania has published a news on the official website of the Lithuanian Defense Ministry announcing the procurement of additional NASAMS ground-based medium-range air defense system combat and inert missiles from the Norwegian Ministry of Defense.

According to the contract signed by the Ministry of National Defense and Norway’s Kongsberg NASAMS manufacturer on 26 October 2017, the system procured by Lithuania is new, except for launchers that are pre-used by the Norwegian Armed Forces and currently upgraded. The systems procured from Norway use U.S.-made AMRAAM aircraft defense missiles capable of destroying aircraft and missiles of an adversary several tens of kilometers away.

The NASAMS (National/Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile System) is a medium-range air defense missile system designed and developed jointly by Raytheon and Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace, primarily for the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF). The missile of the NASAMS system has a range of up to 25 km. Other sources cite a range of over 15 km but this depends on the missile version used.

A standard NASAMS unit has a modular design comprising a command post FDC, an active 3D radar AN/MPQ64F1 Sentinel, a passive electro-optic and infra-red sensor and a number of missile canister launchers with AMRAAM missiles. Normally, four NASAMS units are netted in a battalion network.

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