NASAMS Developers Present New NOMAD SAM: Capabilities and Characteristics (video)
Kongsberg showed a new NOMAD air defense system, which was created by order of the Norwegian Armed Forces
During the Eurosatory 2024 international arms exhibition, which is currently taking place in Paris, a new anti-aircraft missile system was unveiled, a rather rare event. Norway’s Kongsberg, which is known in this field for its NASAMS system, which is actively used by Ukraine, showed NOMAD, a short-range air defense system (SHORAD).
Noting that it was created for the Norwegian army. And this means that there is at least one customer and fairly clear requirements that were formed by the military itself, and not the result of a creative flight of thought by developers. Moreover, the first tests of NOMAD have already taken place, as reported by the Norwegian Defense Ministry in a video:
It is noted that the Norwegian army is to receive six such systems with combat readiness at the level of 2026-2028.
Defense Express should immediately note that Kongsberg in its report called the SAM differently – NOMADS (National Maneuver Air Defense System), but the Norwegian military dropped the objectively superfluous S and called it NOMAD (Norwegian Maneuver Air Defense), which also reads “nomad”.
Also, the message from the Norwegian military is a bit more detailed, because while Kongsberg did not name the missile used in the SAM, the video shows the use of the Iris-T SLS from German Diehl, which has already proven its effectiveness in Ukraine.
In this regard, it should be noted that the range of destruction of air targets in the Iris-T SLS will be approximately 12 km.
At the same time, it is known that the Dutch military is also extremely interested in this SAM and plans to use the AIM-9X. They are also interested in increasing the number of missiles on NOMAD, which currently has only four missiles. This will mean the possibility of increasing the range, possibly up to 15-20 km.
The main target detection device in NOMAD is the XENTA radar from Weibel Scientific, which operates in the X-band (8-12 GHz, 3.75-2.5 cm), has an instrumental range of up to 75 km, and is based on GaN technology (gallium nitride) and uses BeamForming technology, which uses wave interference to form a radiation pattern of the antenna array.
The chassis is the ACSV G5 tracked armored personnel carrier from German FFG, which in the standard version has a weight of up to 29 tons, a payload of up to 9 tons, and a top speed of up to 74 km/h, powered by a 580-horsepower MTU 6V199 TE21 turbo diesel engine. The machine has a torsion suspension with hydraulic shock absorbers.
And despite the first impression that it is a variation of the American M113, FFG assures that this is not the case. After all, the vehicle is indeed larger than the M113 and has been in development since 2012 to replace this American veteran. The ACSV G5 is currently in operation in Norway, which has ordered a total of 51 such vehicles with an option for another 75-150 vehicles.
