Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace has signed a contract with the Danish government for the supply of the Naval Strike Missile Coastal Defence System (NSM CDS).
Kongsberg press release
The contract, which has a value of more than EUR 100 million, will provide Denmark with the latest technology and the most modern coastal artillery system in the world.
“The acquisition will enable Denmark to combat modern naval threats from the land and will strengthen the country’s operational capabilities. In addition, it will help increase the NSM CDS’ overall presence from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea,” says Eirik Lie, President of Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace.
The coastal defence system consists of KONGSBERG’s advanced fire control system, the NSM missile and launch pads. Denmark signed a contract for NSM missiles for its frigates earlier this year.
“Denmark’s choice confirms NSM CDS’s position as the leading land-based and mobile coastal artillery solution for NATO allies,” said Kjetil R. Myhra, Executive Vice President Defence Systems, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace.
With the acquisition, Denmark becomes the 5th nation to acquire the coastal artillery system in NATO, and includes Poland, the USA/US Marine Corps, Romania and Latvia.
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Naval News comments:
The NSM has already been chosen as the replacement for the ship-based Harpoons of the Danish Navy, making it the logical system for the land-based solutions as well.
As previously reported by Naval News, Denmark used to field truck-mounted anti-ship missiles, which sported quadruple-launchers mounted on 4-axis Scania-trucks. These were Harpoon-launchers taken from the two Peder Skram-class frigates when they were decommissioned in 1990. As such, the unit consisted of two batteries each with two launchers, and was allocated to the mobile coastal base unit, MOBA, until eventually being disbanded together with their parent unit in 2003. That was not the end of Danish mobile Harpoon-batteries, however, as with the outbreak of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Denmark used their experience of the concept to create and donate a mobile Harpoon-battery to Ukraine, something that has been described as Denmark’s “most important donation” to the country, and is one of the key components of the Ukrainian coastal defences for Odesa and its surroundings.
