Norway-based Kongsberg Gruppen together with U.S. missile maker Raytheon Company are expected to deploy together with integrate their fifth-generation over-the-horizon Naval Strike Missile (NSM) inwards the U.S. Navy’s fleet of littoral fighting ships (LCS) a few months ahead of schedule, defence forcefulness manufacture executives revealed before this calendar week at the at the Euronaval naval merchandise exhibit inwards Paris. The U.S Navy selected the NSM for its LCS forcefulness together with hereafter frigates, designated FFG(X), inwards June of this year. “In that initial over-the-horizon respect for LCS, the installation timeline was on a two-year delivery cycle,” Octavio Babuca of Raytheon companionship told Defense News. “But nosotros are directly working amongst the Navy to back upwards an accelerated timeline to the deploying to littoral fighting ships. That is mid-to-late 2019 fourth dimension window.” The NSM is expected to live installed on the primary deck of a LCS inwards a proprietary canister launcher. Each LCS volition live armed amongst upwards to 8 NSMs. Overall, the U.S. Navy intends to procure 64 NSMs yesteryear 2023 amongst follow-on orders expected.
“Raytheon volition manufacture together with deliver the over-the-horizon weapon systems nether a $14.8 1000000 contract for offensive missiles loaded into launching mechanisms, together with a unmarried fire-control suite,” a June 1 Raytheon press unloose stated.
As I reported before this year:
The NSM is the successor to Kongsberg’s Penguin short-to-medium attain anti-ship guided missile. The missile, featuring an imaging IR-seeker together with inertial/GPS navigation, tin strike both ocean together with dry reason targets at a distance of around 185 kilometers (100 nautical miles). Carrying a 125-kilogram (276 pounds) multi-purpose blast/fragmentation warhead, the NSM is capable of reaching high subsonic speeds together with tin approach its targets inwards ocean skim mode.
The missile likewise reportedly uses a built-in database of illustration send types inwards lodge to automatically discriminate betwixt the intended target together with other objects.
The NSM is the U.S. Navy’s showtime novel anti-ship missile inwards decades. It selected to the NSM to boost the LCS’ fighting ability mandated nether the “distributed lethality” concept of operations (see: “The U.S. of A. of America Navy’s New Surface Warfare Strategy: ‘Distributed Lethality’”).
The U.S. Navy currently deploys the Boeing RGM-84 Harpoon Block II together with the French-designed MBDA Exocet aboard its surface combatants. Boeing together with Lockheed Martin initially pitched an upgraded variant of the Harpoon together with the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile, but dropped out of the contest for the LCS together with hereafter frigate contracts inwards May 2017.
The U.S. Navy christened its latest littoral fighting ship, the hereafter USS Kansas City (LCS 22) inwards September. The service accepted delivery of 2 Freedom-class LCSs — the hereafter USS Sioux City together with USS Wichita — inwards August. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 amount of eleven LCSs get got been commissioned to date. However, non a unmarried send of the course of study has been operationally deployed inwards 2018.
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