The state-of-the-art network-centric air defence system NASAMS was declared fully operational capable in 1998 but had an initial operational capability as early as in 1994 / 95.

The RNoAF together with KDA is currently running a mid-life update of the NASAMS, called NASAMS II, and the upgraded version was first handed over to RNoAF in mid 2006.

The 300GD is also used to transport the launch control station and optical sensors for the NASAMS Air-defense system.

The Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace teamed up with Raytheon and initiated the NASAMS programme as a cooperative effort for the Royal Norwegian Air Force.

NASAMS ( Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile System ) were used to guard air space over Washington, D. C. during the 2005 presidential inauguration.

Bodø MAS is also the producer of the NASAMS ( Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System ).

Besides the SWPs the Air Defense batteries have a NASAMS II ( Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile System II ) Fire Unit ( FU ).

NASAMS ( Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile System ) is a distributed and networked medium to long range air-defence system.

Norway's Kongsberg Company provides an FDC ( Fire Distribution Center ) as it is used in NASAMS system in Norway.

Until the late 1990s the RNoAF ground based air defence solution, also known as the Norwegian Solution ( NORSOL ), consisted of three different weapon systems ; the 40mm Bofors L70 gun ( controlled by the Oerlikon Contraves FCS2000 monopulse doppler tracking radar ), the laser beam riding RBS 70 MANPADS system and the NASAMS.

As of 2007 the Air Defence Command ( Colua ) is located at De Peel Air Base and equipped with the NASAMS 2 Army Ground Based Air Defense Systems ( Army GBADS ).

The major difference the two versions will be the use of Link 16 on NASAMS II as well as a better ground radar.

The same NASAMS units has since been used to protect the president and all air space around the White House, which is strictly prohibited to aircraft.

Near the air station, at Bodin, there is an RNoAF base which houses a battalion of air defense troops operating the current mainstay equipment NASAMS and RBS 70.

NASAMS capabilities are enhanced by the system's networked and distributed nature.

NASAMS launcher on a Scania 113H truck.

NASAMS has been exported to Spain, Finland, and the Netherlands.

The government of Chile has also ordered NASAMS.

Several NASAMS were used to guard air space over Washington, D. C. during the 2005 United States presidential inauguration, and are used to protect air space around the White House.

NASAMS test firing.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.