On September 5, 2023, during the MSPO-2023 defense and industrial exhibition held in Kielce (Poland), Polish Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak approved a contract with the Norwegian Kongsberg Group for the acquisition of four additional coastal mobile anti-ship missile systems NSM CDS (Coastal Defense System) with NSM missiles for the Polish Navy. The contract value is about 8 billion zlotys with VAT (1.8 billion euros). This is the largest one-time contract in the history of Kongsberg.
Self-propelled launchers of the Polish coastal mobile anti-ship missile system NDR (NSM CDS) with Kongsberg NSM missiles based on the Polish military vehicle Jelcz P662D.43 during deployment in Romania to participate in the multinational NATO exercises Sea Shield 21, March 2021 (c) Michał Pietrzak / Polish Navy
The delivery of the complexes to Poland is scheduled for 2026-2032 and should also include "several hundred" missiles of the new version of NSM Block 1A.
Recall that the Polish Navy already has two complete complexes (divisions) of the coastal missile system NSM CDS, called in Poland NDR (Nadbrzeżny Dywizjon Rakietowy). The first complex (division) NDR was acquired by Poland in 2008 and delivered in 2012, and the second was ordered for 800 million zloty in 2014 and delivered in 2017. Both contracts were accompanied by offset agreements and technology transfer, thanks to which the Polish industry created competencies to support NDR complexes and NSM missiles. In total, according to available data, Poland received 74 NSM Block 1 missiles under these contracts. The Polish Navy was the first to purchase NSM missiles in the coastal-based version.
Two complete NDR complexes (divisions) in the Polish Navy are part of the coastal missile compound Morska Jednostka Rakietowa. Each division consists of two batteries, including three mobile launchers with four missiles and a fire control vehicle. In addition, the NDR complex includes battery and division control vehicles, mobile communication nodes, a mobile radar for detecting and tracking targets produced by the Polish PIT-RADWAR enterprise and logistics support vehicles. The NDR complex is designed to use mainly external targeting, which is ensured by the presence of a large number of control and communication machines. All elements of the NDR complex are made on the chassis of Polish military vehicles Jelcz.
In the summer of 2023, there were reports of ongoing negotiations on the sale by Poland to Ukraine of a battery or even a division of the NDR coastal mobile missile system from the Polish Navy.
After the Polish Navy, the US Marines, as well as Romania and Latvia decided to order coastal complexes with these missiles (these two countries acquire these complexes in the USA through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales - FMS).
