Design and role
Kongsberg describes a modular system with multiple missile options. The command-and-control element and the chosen sensors are part of the configuration, rather than optional context for a range figure.
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NASAMS is a networked ground-based air-defence system combining command functions, sensors, launchers and missiles. It cannot be represented accurately by a single missile specification.
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Surface-to-air missile system
Norway / United States
1997–present
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Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace and Missiles & Defense
Kongsberg NOMADS (National Manoeuvre Air Defence System)
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Missile range: 40 km (NASAMS 2 / AMRAAM) 60 km (NASAMS 3 / AMRAAM-ER) Radar track range: 120 km (NASAMS 2 / MPQ-64F1)
21 km (NASAMS 2) 35.7 km (NASAMS 3 / AMRAAM-ER)
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The system in detail
Kongsberg describes a modular system with multiple missile options. The command-and-control element and the chosen sensors are part of the configuration, rather than optional context for a range figure.
Distinguish a launcher from a battery and from a complete national procurement. A quoted missile range does not by itself define defended area or interception performance.
NASAMS equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Number column of the Wikipedia list table under "Air defence". The list's own wording applies; it is a compiled secondary source, not an official census.
Air Force exact named equipment holdings: NASAMS. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: AIR DEFENCE / Short-range. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Number column of the Wikipedia list table under "NASAMS elements". The list's own wording applies; it is a compiled secondary source, not an official census.
Army holdings of the exact named NASAMS II component, counted as launchers/systems, not missile rounds: active, operational reserve and training equipment, excluding equipment in store. Service-scoped IISS observation, not a national total or combat-readiness figure. No parent, sibling, mounted-weapon or heading aggregate quantity inherited.
Reported count for NASAMS 2. Country-wide list; no individual service specified. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Excludes retired/reserve/on-order rows. Count column(s): quantity (fire units): 10. Origin: Norway United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
Army exact named equipment holdings: NASAMS. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: AIR DEFENCE / Short-range. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Air Force exact named equipment holdings: NASAMS. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: AIR DEFENCE / Short-range. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Australia, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Ukraine
Equipment reference ↗Air Force exact named equipment holdings of NASAMS. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only, not a national or parent-force total or combat-readiness measure. Source role(s): AIR DEFENCE / Short-range. No heading aggregate, carried armament, crew, payload, factory production or future order count inherited. Missile-system inventories count launchers or self-propelled launcher systems, not missiles or warheads; no conversion into missile rounds.
Army exact named equipment holdings of NASAMS. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only, not a national or parent-force total or combat-readiness measure. Source role(s): AIR DEFENCE / Short-range. No heading aggregate, carried armament, crew, payload, factory production or future order count inherited. Missile-system inventories count launchers or self-propelled launcher systems, not missiles or warheads; no conversion into missile rounds.
Air Force exact named equipment holdings of NASAMS. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only, not a national or parent-force total or combat-readiness measure. Source role(s): AIR DEFENCE / Short-range. No heading aggregate, carried armament, crew, payload, factory production or future order count inherited. Literal epsilon denotes an IISS estimate rather than an exact census. Missile-system inventories count launchers or self-propelled launcher systems, not missiles or warheads; no conversion into missile rounds.