🇳🇴🇰🇷 Breaking news. The Norwegian government and a majority of parliament decided that they would purchase South Korea's K239 long-range missile system and 500km range ballistic missiles instead of the European and Israeli PULS and MARS-3. A Norwegian Conservative politician says this is one of the most powerful weapons in Norwegian history and a crucial investment in modern defense.
According to the recommendations of the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, the approval of the Norwegian Cabinet, and my sources at a Norwegian defense consulting firm, the contract is worth $1.88 billion and will involve the purchase of 15 to 23 launchers.
A contract is expected to be signed soon. This would make Estonia the first official buyer of the CTM-MR medium-range tactical missile, and Norway is the first official buyer of the CTM-X ballistic missile.
Norway, Poland, and Estonia also operate Hanwha Aerospace's K9 self-propelled howitzer, and South Korea has been discussing this with Norway for several years. So, it was expected.
●The existence of the US HIMARS option is currently unconfirmed.
●The Norwegian K9 is named VIDAR, the son of Odin. What will the K239 be named?
●Two major defense investment projects have been confirmed for Norway. One involves purchasing two additional submarines from the previously approved submarine program, bringing the total to six, with the budget reportedly increasing from NOK 52 billion to NOK 98 billion. The other is the LLPI program, a long-range precision-guided munitions program for the army (NOK 19 billion).
●South Korea, Poland, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Estonia have purchased the K239, and it is being offered to Norway, Egypt, Latvia, and Lithuania.
●The K239 MRLS can operate a wide variety of general purposes, special purposes, medium range, and long-range missiles. K239 version 3.0 is now underway.
Obviously timing was off for our brave last stunt man but we did have a protocol in place…
We told him prior taking off “ they (the 5 stunt men) needed to make their own decisions on when to exit the aircraft no matter what “
the main reason is us as pilot we couldn’t see the guys exiting so they needed to make their own call …here he decided to go for it which was a good call …
After this event we changed a few things to avoid the timing to be off …that is why we do rehearse numerous times prior the shoot day .
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Obviously timing was off for our brave last stunt man but we did have a protocol in place…
We told him prior taking off “ they (the 5 stunt men) needed to make their own decisions on when to exit the aircraft no matter what “
the main reason is us as pilot we couldn’t see the guys exiting so they needed to make their own call …here he decided to go for it which was a good call …
After this event we changed a few things to avoid the timing to be off …that is why we do rehearse numerous times prior the shoot day .
📸 fred_north
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