Kongsbergs Joint Strike Missile gjør det godt hos US Navy under navnet NSM - The Drive

 Det er å anta at de norske P-8A Poseidon vil bli rigget for å kunne bære dette missilet. En av fordelene med dette missilet er at det det ikke krever strukturelle endringer i et skipsskrog for å kunne ta det i bruk. Som du ser av bildet til venstre under, kommer det skyteklart i en konteiner bestående av flere missiler. (Red.)

U.S. Navy Amphibious Warship To Deploy With Anti-Ship Missiles Next Year

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The U.S. Navy is looking to integrate the new Naval Strike Missile onto at least one amphibious warfare ship in the coming year. This is part of a larger effort to look at ways to increase the firepower of these types of vessels, which could eventually include the addition of containerized missile launchers.

U.S. Marine Corps Major General Tracy King, the head of the Expeditionary Warfare division within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, gave reporters details about these plans on Jan. 8. 2021. The Navy first announced it would acquire the Norwegian-designed Naval Strike Missile (NSM), which the U.S. military has now also designated the RGM-184, in 2018. The immediate plan, since then, has been to integrate those missiles onto both subclasses of the service's Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), though that process has been moving slowly, as you can read about in this previous War Zone piece. The NSM is also set to be part of the arsenal on the future Constellation class guided missile frigates.

The NSM is a stealthy, subsonic, sea-skimming cruise missile with a range of around 100 miles that Kongsberg developed primarily to engage other ships. The weapon uses a GPS-assisted International Navigation System (INS) guidance package, together with terrain recognition, to get to the general target area. After this, it switches over to an imaging infrared seeker that finds the target using an internal database of information about representative ship types. This gives the missile added accuracy and allows it to more effectively discriminate between the vessel it was fired at and other objects, such as decoys. It also makes it less vulnerable to electronic warfare jamming and other countermeasures. You can read more about the NSM in these past War Zone pieces.