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Video: Royal Norwegian Navy Skjold-class Corvette Fires NSM against Coastal Land Target

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Naval Forces News - Norway
 
 
 
Video: Royal Norwegian Navy Skjold-class Corvette Fires NSM against Coastal Land Target
 
The Norwegian Navy released footage and images showing a Skjold-class corvette launching a Naval Strike Missile (NSM) against a land target. The test took place on Monday, in Andøy is the northernmost municipality in Nordland county. It was a first for the Norwegian Navy.
     
The Norwegian Navy released footage and images showing a Skjold-class corvette launching a Naval Strike Missile (NSM) against a land target. The test took place on Monday, in Andøy is the northernmost municipality in Nordland county. It was a first for the Norwegian Navy.
Skjold class corvette Storm hits a simulated control center with an NSM missile
     
The Storm corvette launched the NSM against a simulated enemy control center. The target was located right on the coast but the test demonstrates the Norwegian Navy's new capability to strike land targets (even ones located further inland) with its Skjold-class corvettes or its Nansen-class frigates thanks to the NSM by Kongsberg.
     
Norwegian Navy video
     
Produced by Kongsberg, the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) is an autonomous, long-range, precision missile designed to engage high-value, well-defended targets at sea and ashore. The NSM is the only 5th generation long range precision strike missile in existence today. The missile combines unsurpassed penetration capability due to “low observable” shape, super sea skim, high-G random maneuvers and I3R (intelligent imaging infra red) seeker with Autonomous Target Recognition (ATR) providing programmable hit-point and optimized fuze-setting,

Designed and built by Umoe Mandal, the Skjold class corvette is engineered for littoral combat and surface operations in coastal waters. While light in displacement (274 tonnes) the Skjold class are armed like a frigate ship, present many stealth features and are capable of high transit speeds. While they should be classed as Patrol Boats, the Royal Norwegian Navy officially label them as coastal corvettes.
     
The Norwegian Navy released footage and images (via Norwegian tabloid newspaper Verdens Gang) showing a Skjold-class corvette launching a Naval Strike Missile (NSM) against a land target. The test took place on Monday and was a first for the Norwegian Navy.
Skjold class corvette Storm. Picture: Norwegian Navy
     
The Norwegian Navy released footage and images (via Norwegian tabloid newspaper Verdens Gang) showing a Skjold-class corvette launching a Naval Strike Missile (NSM) against a land target. The test took place on Monday and was a first for the Norwegian Navy.
Launch of NSM missile. Norwegian Navy