Defense Post
January 6, 2023
Raytheon Secures $208M Naval Strike Missile Contract From Romania
Raytheon Missiles & Defense has received a $208-million contract to supply Naval Strike Missiles (NSMs) to the armed forces of Romania.
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The amount of mobile coastal anti-ship missile batteries to be delivered to the NATO member wasn’t disclosed.
However, the US Department of Defense noted that the work will be performed in Arizona, Norway, and Germany in close cooperation with Norwegian firm Kongsberg.
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In 2022, Romania also entered into a $137-million agreement with Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace for an unspecified number of NSM defense systems.
The NSM is a precision strike weapon capable of seeking and destroying enemy ships at long distances (more than 100 nautical miles).
It can elude enemy radar and defense systems by flying at sea-skimming altitude.
The weapon carries a 500-pound (226-kilogram) class warhead with programmable fuse for more accurate and efficient targeting.
Anti-bellum 
This is a scary weapon. If I was Putin I’d be very concerned. The biggest mistake we could make is underestimating the power of NATO.
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You’re a man after my own heart. For 25 years I’ve been screaming this from the rooftops – and have met with nothing but bland assurances that NATO is a paper tiger or have been openly ridiculed. The Atlanticist military-intelligence-political-economic monolith has been painstakingly built up for almost 80 years: it’s not going to be knocked over with a feather.
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Rushing Sunak is sending 2.2 billion pounds in military aid to Ukraine while poor Brits are practically starving and freezing. Yet you don’t hear a peep of protest from their people.
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NATO is a war machine that found a raison d’etre in Ukraine. Massive boom for the weapons manufacturers. Predictably soldiers and civilians on all sides have become the fodder of the escalating conflict.
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