Like Indonesia, Australia also entrusts its hanud system to the NASAMS (National/Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile System) from Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace and Raytheon Missiles & Defense. Although Indonesia was first in terms of implementing the NASAMS battery, the NASAMS acquired by Australia is a newer variant, namely NASAMS 3.
Quoted from armyrecognition.com (8/6/2022), the first shipment of the Mk 2 canister launcher for NASAMS Australia has arrived at Raytheon Australia Center for Joint Integration. Kongsberg Defense Australia (KDau) announced this after the components arrived in Australia from the Kongsberg facility in Norway.
On 20 June 2019, Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace was awarded a contract by Raytheon Australia for the delivery of Aus$2.5 billion worth of NASAMS components. Raytheon Australia is the prime contractor delivering NASAMS for the Australian Government Land 19 Phase 7B programme.
Raytheon Australia and Kongsberg announced approval of the program on 25 March 2019, at a ceremony at the new Raytheon Australia Joint Integration Center to be built in Adelaide, Australia.
The NASAMS MK2 canister launcher makes it possible for the Australian military to use a mixture of variants of the AIM-120 AMRAAM and AIM-9X Sidewinder Block 2 missiles.
Kongseberg and Raytheon claim that the mixture of the two types of missiles in the canister launcher will be very effective against air attacks from advanced fighter aircraft. NASAMS Canister launcher Mk 2 for Australia is the most modern launcher configuration.
The NASAMS 3 package comes with an updated Fire Distribution Center (FDC) station and has an ergonomic control surface and three large flat panel displays in the FDC compartment. Then the redesigned Mk2 canister launcher can fire short-range AIM-9X Sidewinder Block 2 missiles and AMRAAM-ER (Extended Range) missiles from its launch rail, in addition to of course the AIM-120 AMRAAM.
The AMRAAM-ER is an extended range enhancement based Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile rocket motor paired with a two-stage AMRAAM guidance head, extending the missile's engagement with a 50 percent increase in maximum range and a 70 percent increase in maximum altitude. In May 2019, the AIM-9X Block 2 was test fired from the NASAMS 3 launcher at the Andøya Space Center in Norway.
In October 2021, Raytheon announced that NASAMS 3 would be upgraded with the integration of GhostEye MR, a new medium-range S-band AESA radar designed based on the GhostEye technology developed for the MIM-104 Patriot missile system. Apart from Australia, users of the NASAMS 3 system are Lithuanians.
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