The original was taken from a colleague andrej_kraft in Norway : Norway buys Polish Piorun MANPADSIn continuation of the topic:
Norway's FMA (Forsvarsmateriell) and the Polish company Mesko have signed a contract for 350 million kronor ($37.6 million) for the acquisition of Piorun MANPADS. Deliveries of the first complexes should begin in 2023. The volume of the purchased batch is not disclosed, but it can be estimated at 35 launchers and 115 missiles, since under the Estonian contract in September 2022, 100 and 300 were ordered, respectively, for $ 102 million (103 million euros). [...]
Piorun MANPADS on tests in Norway © Forsvarsmateriell"Norway will use portable air defense systems of this type for the first time, and therefore the Norwegian armed forces will receive an important potential that they did not have before.
This is also the first time we have signed a major contract with the Polish defense industry, which indicates the positive development of bilateral military-technical cooperation," commented Defense Minister Bjorn Arild Gram. "We received very good offers from several suppliers, but decided that Piorun gives us the best combination of terms, characteristics and cost. It can be delivered relatively quickly, it meets the requirements for functionality and efficiency, and they are quite enough in terms of price," the head of the aviation systems department at FMA added to the minister.
Foto © ForsvarsmateriellPreparations for the implementation of the procurement program "Project 5091 - Portable anti-aircraft missile system" to strengthen the air defense of army units in Finnmark have been underway since 2018, and the tender began in the fall of 2021.
Since then, two stages of competitive tests and several months of negotiations with manufacturers have been conducted. In accordance with the announced terms of the tender, the procurement program is designed for seven years, and the delivery package includes launchers (command and launch units), anti-aircraft guided missiles, mounts for installing MANPADS on military equipment, passive detection equipment, spare parts for two years of operation, control and measuring devices, as well as training tools shooting, including an electronic simulator simulator.
The delivery start date was originally planned for the end of 2022, but it moved slightly to the right.
Bilde © Forsvarsmateriell
