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Old 17th Nov 2018, 06:14
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Originally Posted by jmelson
This link says something about 300 million Euro, maybe that's for the hull, alone. The Aegis radar is 1 - 1.2 BILLION $ unit!
The Aegis is a suite of radars and missile systems. The ones fitted in the Norwegian destroyers are smaller, and nowhere near the costs for a full shore-based BMD installation. See: https://mostlymissiledefense.com/201...cember-7-2012/

Edit: From Wikipedia:
SPY-1F FARS (frigate array radar system) is a smaller version of the 1D designed to fit frigates. It is not used by the US Navy, but has been exported to Norway.
The size of the antenna of SPY-1F is reduced from the original 12 ft (3.6 m) with 4,350 elements to 8 feet (2.4 m) with 1,856 elements, and the range is 54% of the SPY-1D.
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