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Mine Hunting exercise during Joint Viking 2016

 

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Joint Medical Evaculation unit supporting EOD clearance units:

 

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Every so often the Norwegian military organizes a pentathlon for active duty personal:

 

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It's that special time of year when all our friends gather for a large snowball fight.

Counter intelligence and sabotage teams had been securing ports and harbors for a few days prior to their arrival.

 

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It'll be a while before anything exciting happens around here, such as Winter exercises with the USMC, so how about some historical photos of Hellfire being used as an AShM by Coastal Artillery units?

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In honor of the 666th reply on this thread, here's a song from the Norwegian Black Metal band Kampfar.

 

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November 6th was Armed Forces Memorial Day.

It's interesting to note which rifle is used in the ceremony. That's an HK416, but the Norwegian Kings Guard used to use the M1 Garand as their ceremonial arm. Huge stocks, about 75,000 were given to Norway by the US in the 1960s.

 

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AM-1 (Norway's first F-35).

4 have so far been delivered.

 

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KJK and the Royal Norwegian Air Force and Navy during a recent combined operations exercise.

 

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Norwegian special forces are also playing the part of the bad guys. Also KJK.

 

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In the previous photo set you may have noticed a small, weirdly shaped vessel patrolling near the coastline. That's a Skjold Class Corvette. Many ships are billed as "stealth" these days, using shaping to reduce their radar signature, but the Skjold Class takes that one step further. Combining removable weapons mounts, a stealthy gun pod and pop-up missile launches that hide below deck when not in use, in addition to their stealth optimized shape, the Skjolds are very hard to notice on radar

But that's wasn't good enough. They also feature IR suppression techniques and active systems, are covered in a RAM and anechoic coating to further cut down on their radar and acoustic signature and use waterjets to reduce their wake formation. They are the fastest combatant craft on the planet combining high-performance waterjets and an air cushion (like a hovercraft) to be able to reach speeds in excess of 70 knots, all while still maintaining a high level of maneuverability.

But despite their diminutive size these are heavily armed ships packing one 76mm gun, several .50 weapons mounts and remote weapons systems, Mistral Missile launchers, soft and hardkill countermeasures and eight Naval Strike Missiles hidden below deck.

They are fully capable of traversing open ocean waters, but are used primarily to protect the Norwegian coast and near-shore waters. Norway has the world's seventh largest coastline, so you can imagine they get a lot of use.

Two other classes of ships can be seen in the same photo set. One is a Nansen Class Frigate and the other a CB90 fast assault craft.

 

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It's not just the Marines stopping by, the US Army Europe also dropped in for a visit.

 

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In the previous photo set you may have noticed a small, weirdly shaped vessel patrolling near the coastline. That's a Skjold Class Corvette. Many ships are billed as "stealth" these days, using shaping to reduce their radar signature, but the Skjold Class takes that one step further. Combining removable weapons mounts, a stealthy gun pod and pop-up missile launches that hide below deck when not in use, in addition to their stealth optimized shape, the Skjolds are very hard to notice on radar

But that's wasn't good enough. They also feature IR suppression techniques and active systems, are covered in a RAM and anechoic coating to further cut down on their radar and acoustic signature and use waterjets to reduce their wake formation. They are the fastest combatant craft on the planet combining high-performance waterjets and an air cushion (like a hovercraft) to be able to reach speeds in excess of 70 knots, all while still maintaining a high level of maneuverability.

But despite their diminutive size these are heavily armed ships packing one 76mm gun, several .50 weapons mounts and remote weapons systems, Mistral Missile launchers, soft and hardkill countermeasures and eight Naval Strike Missiles hidden below deck.

They are fully capable of traversing open ocean waters, but are used primarily to protect the Norwegian coast and near-shore waters. Norway has the world's seventh largest coastline, so you can imagine they get a lot of use.

Two other classes of ships can be seen in the same photo set. One is a Nansen Class Frigate and the other a CB90 fast assault craft.

Would you be kind enough to do a separate thread on the " Skjold Class Corvette"?

All the way from Price per unit, Specifications, History etc.

Would appreciate it.