Lithuania buys two NASAMS air defence systems for Ukraine

Ukraine will receive a NASAMS surface-to-air missile system from Lithuania.

Here's What We Know

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda told about it. We are talking about two launchers of the SAM system. Unfortunately, it is not known when the deliveries will start.

Flashback

NASAMS is a mobile surface-to-air missile system for destruction of manoeuvring targets at low and medium altitudes. The system was developed in the early 1990s by the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence with the participation of the American company Raytheon. The range of AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles is 20-40 km, and the maximum altitude is 20 km. The cost of one such battery is about $65 million. Incidentally, Ukraine now has at least two NASAMS batteries in service. One battery consists of six mobile missile launchers. In addition, the system has a vehicle for charging, target detection and maintenance of the complex.

Source: @GitanasNauseda