NASAMS air defense missile systems supplied by the United States arrived in Ukraine

Kung Chan, founder of ANBOUND

According to Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace, a Norwegian company that has partnered with Raytheon to develop NASAMS, NASAMS is deployed in several countries around the world, including several in Europe. Since 2005, the system has been used to protect Washington, D.C., around the clock.

The AMRAAM used by NASAMS is the most mature Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile on the planet and the most advanced in development. Nearly 5,000 have been tested in live-fire tests and exercises.

When used for ground launched NASAMS, AMRAAM is capable of engaging targets at relatively close range, up to about 20 miles away, and at altitudes of about 1,000 feet to 50,000 feet. These targets include cruise missiles, manned aircraft, and drones.

It is worth noting that this set of anti-aircraft missile systems has similarities with the Israeli Iron Dome missile system. Its focus is on a missile network system, not the missiles themselves!

This missile network system is equivalent to the operating system of a computer, such as WINDOWS. As for missiles, they are equivalent to laptops, and computer hardware can be changed at will, but they must be supported by WINDOWS to work. So WINDOWS is the most important. The same is true of NASAMS systems, where missiles can be used in many varieties. But it, together with radar, is under the control of one operating system and works in coordination.

In my opinion, the key to the U.S. hesitation in providing the NASAMS missile system is the fear that the core of the network system will fall into the hands of Russia or other countries.

This is a real new concept of anti-aircraft weapons. The United States decided not to use Israel’s Iron Dome because it had mastered the NASAMS system of the same concept. As for the rest of the world, they are still in the research of traditional anti-aircraft missile weapons, from concept to technology to development. Compared to the United States, it is a generation or even two behind.

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