The Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) has bought €125 million (RM601 million) worth of Naval Strike Missile (NSM) rounds from Norway.
According to British-based military magazine, IHS Jane’s 360, Kongsberg Defence Systems (KDS), one of four wholly-owned subsidies of Norway’s Kongsberg Gruppen (KOG), confirmed the receipt for the rounds.
KOG is an international technology group that supplies high-technology systems and solutions to customers in the merchant marine, defence, aerospace, and offshore oil and gas industries.
The report said KDS announced the sale at the Defence Services Asia (DSA) 2018 exhibition in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
The announcement comes three years after Kongsberg received a letter of award from Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd in Lumut, Perak, to provide NSM shipboard equipment for the RNM’s six-ship Littoral Combat Ship programme.
NSM was originally developed by Kongsberg to meet the Royal Norwegian Navy’s (RNoN) requirements for a highly discriminative, low-observable surface-to-surface guided weapon able to penetrate shipboard defences and operate effectively in both blue water and littoral environments.
Kongsberg entered service with the RNoN in October 2012.
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