Naval Strike Missile

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Naval Strike Missile
Basic data
Function littoral/open sea anti-ship/land attack cruise missile
Manufacturer Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace
Entered service
General characteristics
Engine solid fuel rocket booster, Microturbo TRI-40 turbojet
Launch mass 410 kg
Length 3.95 m
Diameter
Speed high subsonic
Range 160 km
Flying altitude sea skimming
Warhead 125 kg HE fragmentation
Guidance inertial, GPS, terrain-reference navigation, active infrared homing
Fuzes programmable fuze
Launch platform naval ships, fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, land-based vehicles

The Naval Strike Missile (NSM) is an anti-ship missile developed by the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) and planned to be fully operational in 2006. It has already been chosen by the Royal Norwegian Navy for its new Fridtjof Nansen class frigates and Skjold class patrol boats.

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[edit] Design

The state-of-the-art design and use of composite materials is meant to give the missile sophisticated stealth capabilities. The missile will weigh slightly more than 400 kg (880 lb) and have a range of at least 160 km (100 mi). NSM is designed for littoral waters as well as for open sea ("bluewater") scenarios. Like its Penguin predecessor, NSM is able to fly over and around landmasses, travel in sea skim mode, and then make random manoeuvres in the terminal phase, making it harder to stop by enemy countermeasures. While the Penguin is a yaw-to-turn missile, NSM is based on bank-to-turn flight. (see flight dynamics)

The target selection technology provides NSM with a capacity for independent detection, recognition, and discrimination of targets at sea or on the coast. This is possible with the combination of an imaging IR (IIR) seeker and an onboard target database. NSM will be able to navigate by GPS, inertial and terrain reference systems. After being launched into the air by a solid rocket booster which is jettisoned upon burning out, the missile is propelled to its target in high subsonic speed by a turbojet sustainer engine—leaving the 125 kg multi-purpose blast/fragmentation warhead to do its work.

[edit] Future plans

There are plans to develop multi-role versions of the NSM, with ground strike being an option. This missile could be integrated with the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and the Eurofighter. Studies have shown that the F-35 would be able to carry two of these in its internal bays, while additional missiles could be carried externally. Australia is a possible partner for the assessment of this proposed multi-role version.[1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Jane's Defence Weekly, 20 July, 2005: Norway pushes naval strike missile for JSF

[edit] External links

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