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Raytheon won a $208 million contract to arm the Black Sea state and NATO member Romania with cellular batteries of coastal anti-ship missiles, the Pentagon said in a contract on Thursday.
Together with Norwegian company Kongsberg, Raytheon will supply Romania with an unspecified amount of coastal naval attack missile defense systems under the deal that could be worth up to $217 million after all functions are exercised, according to the announcement. Most of the paintings will be made in Norway and at Raytheon’s facility in Tucson, Arizona, he said.
Romania has a sea coast of more than a hundred miles on the Black Sea, home to the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy.
According to a 2021 report by Norwegian engineering magazine Teknisk Ukeblad, the deal would pay for two coastal defense systems that would be equivalent to 4 cellular launchers and two commands and nodes for batteries.
HMS was originally developed for the Royal Norwegian Navy as a fashionable anti-ship missile with a diversity of over a hundred nautical miles for its surface fleet. The floor launcher was developed through Kongsberg partly for export sales, combined with a command and a system.
The United States and Romania signed a foreign army sale agreement in 2021 to obtain the Naval Attack Missile Coastal Defense System. In addition to Norway and the United States, Poland presents NSM. Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, Malaysia and Germany plan to use the missiles.
In November, the UK Ministry of Defence reached an agreement to equip 11 Royal Navy warships with the MSS from a direct agreement with Norway to upgrade its existing Harpoon anti-ship missiles.
The U. S. Marine Corps has developed its own land-based variant of the land-based Naval Strike missile launcher: the Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS). The Marines MSS to a remotely operated Joint Light Tactical Vehicle. chassis.
The U. S. Navy deploys NSM on its littoral combat ships to patrol in the western Pacific.
Sam LaGrone is the editor-in-chief of USNI News. He has covered legislation, acquisitions and maritime operations since 2009 and has spent time in progress with the U. S. Navy. The U. S. Marine Corps (U. S. Marine Corps) The U. S. and Canadian Navy.
Follow @samlagrone