The medium-range NASAMS (Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System) mobile anti-aircraft missile complex is designed to attack air targets at low and medium altitudes in all weather conditions.

The complex was adopted by the Norwegian Air Force in 1994 to replace the Enhanced Falcon complexes. It can accompany and hit more targets at the same time, the time to transfer the complex from the derivative position to the combat position has been reduced. At the same time, the number of service personnel is reduced by four times, NASAMS has a higher degree of combining equipment and combining it with other systems.

The complex includes a launcher based on the chassis of a Scania P113 all-terrain vehicle, air-to-air AMRAAM (AIM-120A) missiles placed in six transport-launch containers, and an AN/MPQ-64 multifunctional radar station.

The guided missile (OKR) AIM-120A is made according to the usual aerodynamic scheme and has a cruciform wing of a small area, which provides quite good maneuverability even at low flight speeds and a cruciform rudder in the tail.

Rockets are launched at a fixed elevation angle of 30°. The target is captured by the OKR homing radar at a distance of up to 20 km, after which an active homing is carried out. The missile is equipped with a directional high-explosive warhead that is detonated by an active radar or contact fuze.

In the starting position, transport and launch containers with DKR are placed horizontally. To increase the survivability of the complex, it is planned to deploy the launcher at a distance of up to 25 km from the positions of the control point and radar. At the same time, communication with installations can be organized by cable, fiber optic or digital communication line.

Thales Communications communication equipment based on the TAS 300 switch (Tactical Eurocom switch) provides high-speed exchange, encoding and decoding of traffic between network nodes, an interface with STANAG 4206 networks (multi-channel tactical NATO digital gateway for interaction between backbone networks) a communication different using line).

The AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel multifunctional radar station provides the detection, recognition and simultaneous tracking of up to 60 air targets, as well as the targeting of up to three OCRs selected from them. The radar probes the area due to mechanical rotation of the antenna along the azimuth and electronic scanning along the corner of the site.

The operation of the anti-aircraft fire protection system is controlled by the electronic computer of the fire control point. It takes 10 minutes for the radar to deploy and prepare for operation. All station equipment is installed on a towed trailer. By the way, to ensure combat work in a difficult and difficult environment, the NASAMS complex is equipped with an optoelectronic guidance system – NTAS (Norwegian Tracking Assistance System).

Information about the weather from the radar (data update time is 2 seconds) is transmitted to the fire control point, which includes data transmission, a modular designed multi-purpose console with two high-performance computers, display and control systems. equipment and means of communication.

The console has two automatic workspaces (ARMs) that replicate each other with the same control bodies. Each weapon is equipped with three screens, two of which show the entire weather and combat situation, and the third – the status and readiness of the systems of the complex. Detailed information on the direction of movement, speed and altitude of any target can be obtained by the operator by entering the azimuth pointer and pressing the data arrow button to display it on the instrument display.

The main tactical unit of the NASAMS air defense system is a battery. It consists of three fire detachments (total of 54 missile sets) combined in an information network, so that each of the three radars can replace the others. The battery command post (located at one of the fire control points) can receive target guidance from higher headquarters and send weather data to platoon fire control points. In addition, all 54 missiles can be fired at different targets within 12 seconds.