Nå som Ukraina har fått NASAMS så kan det jo være greit å se på hva dette egentlig er;
NASAMS
- A fully installed NASAMS battery/ battalion consists of twelve launch ramps each with six AMRAAM missiles, four radars, four control centres, four electro-optical cameras and a control element.
- The radars are positioned around the area to be protected. Each radar is connected to a control centre which collects and analyses data from the radars.
- All the resulting information is shared between the control centres in real time via a wireless encrypted network.
- When a threat is detected, one of the many launch ramps will fire one or more missiles. The AMRAAM missiles have their own radars used to find and destroy the targets. These radars are independent of the rest of the system once launched.
- The system has an open architecture which makes it simple to integrate other missiles or sensors.
Allerede i 1999 ble dette testet ut i Norge;
The year is 1999 and we are watching the Battle Griffin drill in Trøndelag. Around 20,000 soldiers from eight NATO states are taking part. The purpose is to practice deployment in an area held by hostile forces. This provides Canadian F-18 pilots with the very first opportunity to face the Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile System.
NASAMS has been set up to defend the Norwegian troops whom the Canadian pilots have been ordered to attack. The pilots fly into an area hunting for traditional air defence stations – but find none. Back on the ground however, the pilots are informed that they have been shot down a total of 18 times – which they find very difficult to believe.
“We had to explain to them what NASAMS was before they accepted the 18 kills,” recalls Hans Christian Hagen, an officer in the Royal Air Force at that time.
Mer her;
To an aggressor, NASAMS must seem like an invisible monster with several heads. Even if you manage to cut off one head, the other eleven are still waiting to attack you. Bjørn-Owe Holmberg.
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