Norway’s Kongsberg to build new missile factory in Virginia
The Virginia factory will be the second missile production facility Kongsberg builds in the United States.
The Virginia factory will be the second missile production facility Kongsberg builds in the United States.
The factory will manufacture and service Naval Strike Missiles (NSM) and Joint Strike Missiles (JSM), the first non-Norwegian facility to do so.
The shift from slo mo — counterinsurgency operations — to high intensity combat is a major challenge for the US military and its allies. It is a culture shift, a procurement shift and an investment shift. But mobilization is even more important than modernization. To get ready for this shift, our weapons inventory needs to […]
Norway faces the challenge of crafting a national defense strategy for the 21st strategy in the face of Vlad Putin’s more aggressive Russia. Because Putin thinks through his use of military power and designs limited objectives to achieve what he considers in the best interest of Russia, Norway faces a double challenge: how to defend […]
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