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NASAMS provides air defenders with a tailorable, state-of-the-art defense system that can maximize their ability to acquire, engage and destroy current and evolving enemy fixed and rotary wing aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and emerging cruise missile threats.
Also known as the Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System, the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) is designed for mid-range air defense and can be deployed to engage aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles, and UAVs.
- SLAMRAAAM; 40 km
- Aircraft, UAVs, and Cruise Missiles
Nov 11, 2020 · The U.S. Army has released what appears to be one of the first images of a prototype low-cost surface-to-air missile following a successful flight test. The weapon is primarily designed to provide a defense against unmanned aerial vehicles and cruise missiles, but could also engage fixed and rotary wing aircraft in certain envelopes.
Feb 22, 2010 · Man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) — the shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles that are a popular black market item for insurgent forces — have dropped off the military’s radar in...
- SL-AMRAAM Air Defence System Development
- SL-AMRAAM HMMWV Mounted Launcher
- SL-AMRAAM Fire Control, Tracking, and Radar
- Claws
- Surveillance Radar
- Fire Distribution Centre
- NASAMS
- AIM-120 Air-Launched Fire-And-Forget Missile
- Hawk-Amraam Air Defence System
- Contracts and Deliveries
Boeing delivered the first integrated fire control shelter in May 2006 and the system successfully completed critical design review in July 2006. System field testing of SL-AMRAAM began in March 2008 with a successful acquisition and tracking test and was completed in May 2009. Field integration testing, completed in July 2008, demonstrated interop...
The SL-AMRAAM HMMWV-mounted launcher accommodates six AMRAAM missiles on a turreted High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), providing 360-degree coverage. The launcher points towards the target area, launching missiles at a maximum angle of 70 degrees without compromising the intercept and kill probability.
The Boeing integrated fire control station provides Battle Management Command, Control, Computers, Communications and Intelligence. It uses data from air defence sensors, including the Sentinel radar and the future Joint Land-Attack Cruise Missile Elevated Netted Sensor (JLENS). JLENS consists of a large aerostat connected via tether to a ground-ba...
CLAWS, developed by the US Army Aviation and Missile Command’s Missile Research, Development and Engineering Centre, underwent successful trials with the Marine Corps, demonstrating intercept ranges of more than 15km. Operational testing concluded in November 2005, and the system was ready for deployment and Initial Operating Capability. However, i...
The US Army uses the Raytheon AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel radar to carry out the surveillance and target search, acquisition, identification and tracking functions. The electronically scanned phased array radar uses range gate pulse Doppler operation at X-band. Sentinel uses a high scan rate of 30rpm. The range is 75km.
The fire distribution centre, mounted on a high mobility vehicle such as the AM General 4×4 HMMWV, provides tactical operational control, including target detection, identification, threat prioritising, engagement and kill assessment.
NASAMS was developed by Hughes (now Raytheon) and Norsk Forsvarteknologia (now Kongsberg Defence). The first production contract for NASAMS was placed in 1994 by the Royal Norwegian Air Force and the system entered service in 1995. The Spanish Army has four NASAMS systems acquired in 2003 and the US has one system. The NASAMS firing platoon or unit...
The AMRAAM, AIM-120, was developed and is best known as an air-launched fire-and-forget missile deployed on the F-15, F-16, F/A-18, F-22, F-4F, Sea Harrier, Harrier II Plus, Eurofighter, JAS-39 Gripen, JA-37 Viggen and the Tornado. The high-velocity AIM-120 missile is manufactured in two variants. The AIM-120B is field programmable and the AIM-120C...
Raytheon and Kongsberg Defence have jointly developed the HAWK-AMRAAM air defence system, which combines the capabilities of HAWK and AMRAAM missiles within a distributed architecture. The missiles are mounted on universal launchers, and a fire distribution centre controls target detection, identification, threat ordering, engagement, and kill asse...
In September 2005, Raytheon was awarded a contract for the fifth and sixth CLAWS production systems. The Dutch Army contracted Kongsberg in December 2006 for six NASAMS II systems. Deliveries started in 2009. In September 2008, the United Arab Emirates requested the foreign military sale of several SL-AMRAAM systems. In July 2014, Raytheon won a $1...
The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary such system used by the United States Army and several allied states. It is manufactured by the U.S. defense contractor Raytheon and derives its name from the radar component of the weapon system.
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Man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) are surface-to-air missiles that can be fired by an individual or a small team of people against aircraft. These weapon systems often are described as shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles.
