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Home» Event News» SAS 2019»SAS 2019: Kongsberg pitching NSM-HL missile for maritime helicopter
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Kongsberg is actively pitching its helicopter-launched variant of the Naval Strike Missile, officially dubbed NSM-HL. According to Kongsberg, the NSM-HL missile is designed « to fill the role as a long-range, anti-ship missile for helicopter launch, thus increasing the parent ship’s potential ASuW capabilities when launching forward firing, deliberate attacks ».
As shown on Kongsberg's SAS 2019 booth, the NSM-HL missile could be primarily integrated on MH-60R platform

SAS 2019: Kongsberg pitching NSM-HL missile for maritime helicopter

Kongsberg is actively pitching its helicopter-launched variant of the Naval Strike Missile, officially dubbed NSM-HL. According to Kongsberg, the NSM-HL missile is designed « to fill the role as a long-range, anti-ship missile for helicopter launch, thus increasing the parent ship’s potential ASuW capabilities when launching forward firing, deliberate attacks ».

Nathan Gain 08 May 2019

According to a scale model and pictures shared by Kongsberg, the integration study should firstly involve the MH-60R platform. “The NSM has been approved for rotary wing platforms so integration work can now start,” Raytheon NSM Program Director Randy Kempton confirmed today at SAS 2019.

Prior to executing a strike mission, an advanced off-board mission planning tool allows for route generation through numerous waypoints, terrain correlation for overland flight, and target identification criteria down to ship class specificity. These data are stored in the missile prior to the helicopter lift-off. The NSM-HL missile utilizes MIL-STD 1760 electrical interface and is drop-launched from a standard BRU-14 bomb rack. 

Arming an helicopter with the NSM-HL would potentially increase the mother ship operational range. Given the operational radius of the MH-60R of 450 nm, the effective range from the ship for the NSM-HL will be more than 550 nm.

An April 2019 FMS announcement indicates that India may be the first country to consider purchase of the NSM-HL variant. Besides 24 MH-60R helicopters, the Indian Navy would purchase « two Naval Strike Missile Emulators » as well as « four Naval Strike Missile Captive Inert Training missiles », the FMS said. 

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Posted by : Nathan Gain
Nathan is based in Namur, Belgium. He holds an MA in modern history with a minor in international relations from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL – Belgium). Fascinated by military history he naturally turned to the defense sector after graduating and is particularly interested in Northern European and Belgian defense issues as well as in anything related to naval aviation.

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