NASAMS and munitions for HIMARS. The USA announced a new aid package worth 820 million dollars
Kostiantyn Golubtsov
Updated: July 02 2022 at 12:44 amSource: myukraineis.org
The USA announced another aid package to Ukraine worth 820 million dollars.
It includes NASAMS air defense systems, additional munitions for HIMARS, 155 mm artillery shells and counter-battery radars. This was reported by the press service of the Pentagon.
The complete aid package looks like this:
- Additional ammunition for high mobility missile and artillery systems (HIMARS)
- Two national advanced anti-aircraft missile systems (NASAMS);
- Up to 150,000 rounds of 155-mm artillery ammunition;
- Four additional counter-artillery radars.
NASAMS systems are produced by a consortium of the American corporation Raytheon Technologies and the Norwegian group Kongsberg. The complex includes launchers, radar stations (radar) Raytheon AN/MPQ-64F1 Sentinel from the Raytheon and Kongsberg consortium.
Raytheon is responsible for supplying its AIM-120 AMRAAM medium-range air-to-air missiles for the system, while Kongsberg is supplying the launchers.
Each mobile launcher has six containers with anti-aircraft missiles. The NASAMS air defense system is in service or being delivered to 12 countries.
The firing range of the anti-aircraft system in the NASAMS II configuration using AIM-120С AMRAAM missiles is up to 25 km, and the height range is up to 14-15 km.
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