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First sniping with the Army's new portable air defense system.
With portable air defense (BLV), the Jager Battalion in Finnmark can operate more freely, and can better protect itself against drones and combat helicopters. Eventually, several departments will get the same.
In the first instance, a separate BLV squad has now been set up at the Garrison in Sør-Varanger (GSV).
- They are to protect the Jager Battalion so that they can operate more freely, and become even more potent and an increasing threat to an enemy who wants to attack Norway, explains Commander of Finnmark Land Defence, Colonel Jørn Qviller.
- Then we will eventually spread that system around in Finnmark Land Defense and the Finnmark Brigade, and hopefully other departments in the Army in the long term as well, he says.
In other words, it will not be as easy for an enemy to send combat helicopters and transport aircraft into Norway.
The air defense system, Piorun, is manufactured in Poland and is classified as a "very short range air defence". This is the innermost layer of a more complex air defense that will now be built up in Finnmark.
- We will build up a layered air defense in Finnmark. BLV covers the close range, and is a "very short" air defence. And then we will end up with very long-range systems, and something in between. It will constitute the layered air defense in the Army and the Armed Forces, which an enemy must deal with, explains Qviller.
This week, the new BLV squad got to test the new air defense with sharp missiles for the first time at the Porsangmoen and Halkavarre firing and training ranges in central Finnmark. Among others present were representatives from the Polish manufacturer Mesko.
- For the enemy, this means that they have to take such a threat into account. That means they have to fly higher, they have to fly out to the flanks, or they don't dare to fly at all. Nobody can be sure that they have full freedom to fly helicopters and drones into Norwegian territory with a portable air defense system present, emphasizes Qviller.

 

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F-35-A on display in Blekinge, Sweden.

 

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Norwegian troops from eFP Battlegroup Lithuania. Lithuania, August 2024

 

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Norwegian troops from NATO eFP Battlegroup Lithuania. Lithuania, September 2024

 

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Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway is training in explosive minefield breaching.

 

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