NASAMS

Fiche

Pertinence pour les conflits

Ceci est la fiche unique du catalogue pour ce système. Il est pertinent pour les modules ci-dessous ; le Force Atlas de chaque module montre comment il y est employé.

Opérateurs

Ukraine: Donated from 2022; no Ukrainian production. · Norway and the eastern flank: The originating operator: Norway's air force has fielded NASAMS since the 1990s and its ministry has contracted further units and modernisation. No holdings or sites recorded. · Lithuania and the eastern flank: Three purchases, kept apart. The first battery was contracted in 2017 and delivered in 2020. A second, ordered in 2023, began arriving with the Air Force's Air Defence Battalion in April 2026, with integration planned by the end of the year, according to public broadcasting. A third was contracted on 3 October 2024 for delivery in 2028, and the government approved a further purchase in April 2025 alongside additional Boxer vehicles. Programme facts only; no fire-unit count or site is recorded. · Netherlands and the eastern flank: In service with the army's ground-based air defence command; no holdings recorded. · Finland and the eastern flank: In Finnish service as the medium-range layer of the ground-based air defence, procured in the 2000s; no holdings recorded. · Spain and the eastern flank: Spain has kept a NASAMS unit in Latvia since June 2022 on rotation; in February 2026, in its eighth rotation, Spain's defence staff described it as fully integrated into NATO's air defence network. No site is recorded. · Hungary and the eastern flank: Contracted in 2020 as the replacement for Soviet-era systems; deliveries announced by the ministry from 2023. Programme facts only.

Rôle sur le champ de bataille

Medium-range point and area defence, identified in specialist assessment alongside IRIS-T as one of the two principal systems carrying Ukraine's cruise-missile defence. Its distinguishing feature is that it fires air-to-air missiles from the ground, which ties its resupply to a munition stream shared with combat aircraft rather than to a dedicated surface-to-air production line.

Points forts

Proven against cruise missiles and drones, and drawing on a widely produced missile family rather than a system-specific interceptor.

Limites

Not an anti-ballistic system. Sharing a missile family with fighter aircraft is a supply advantage and a supply exposure at once, because the same rounds are wanted for air-to-air use. As with every donated layer, the binding variable is the interceptor resupply rate rather than the number of launchers, and that rate is not published.

Emploi documenté dans les conflits

In documented Ukrainian service since 2022 and consistently described in specialist assessment as a core part of the medium-range layer. No primary source separating delivered systems from planned or pledged systems was identified for NASAMS, and the totals appearing in reporting are therefore not reproduced here. What can be said is that the system is in service; how many are operational is not established. NATO EASTERN FLANK. NASAMS is the most widely held medium-range ground-based air-defence system on the flank — Norwegian by origin, and in service or on order with Lithuania, the Netherlands, Finland and Hungary. It is the system through which the module's air-defence-production economy object reads the same interceptor problem from the allied side: the AMRAAM it fires is also the principal air-to-air missile of the flank's fighter fleets, so one production line serves both. One deployment is published by its contributor: Spain's NASAMS unit in Latvia, on rotation since June 2022, which Spain's defence staff describes as fully integrated into NATO's air defence network — the only allied ground-based unit in the Baltic states for which that is stated. No holdings or sites are stated.

Opérateurs par composante et par service

• Finnish Army Documenté
• Lithuanian Air Force Documenté

Formations documentées

• MH Összhaderőnemi Műveleti Parancsnokság Documenté · confiance élevée
• Defence Ground-based Air Defence Command Documenté · confiance élevée