Kongsberg to deliver joint strike missiles to Norway

12:00 AM, April 27, 2009
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Kongsberg Gruppen has signed a contract with the Norwegian Defence Procurement Division for the first phase in the development of the Joint Strike Missile (JSM). The contract has a financial framework of MNOK 166, and is scheduled for completion within 18 months. The Joint Strike Missile will be a newly-developed anti-surface warfare and land attack missile that will be adapted to meet an uncovered operational need on the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) supplied by the US. As the missile will also lend itself to deployment on other types of aircraft, Kongsberg sees a significant potential for the later phases of the F-35 programme. As part of the JSM development programme, the Group will be developing and testing new operative functions that can be used later to upgrade Kongsberg's Naval Strike Missile (NSM).

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