Kongsberg Penguin missile
The Penguin missile, made by the Norwegian firm, Kongsberg, was the first anti-shipping missile of any NATO county. It was first produced in the 1960s, and its most recent order was in November 2022.[1]
Its manufacturer designates the major versions as "Marks" and versions within Marks as Mods, much as the United States Navy designates its guns and torpedoes. In U.S. service, the missile is known as the AGM-119 Penguin.[2]
The missiles can be launched from land, ships, and aircraft; the U.S. version is launched by ship-based helicopters.
Australian and U.S. warheads are filled with PBXN-109, an insensitive high explosive.[3]
On April 14, 2022 Ukrainian military forces sunk the Moskva, the pride of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.[4] Although Ukraine claimed they sunk the guided missile cruiser with a Ukrainian R-360 missile, on June 9, 2022, the Asia Times speculated this was disinformation, masking that Ukraine had quietly acquired the Norwegian Naval Ship Missile, a successor to the Penguin.
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Erlien Dalløkken (2022-11-25). "Missilet pasto bade at det var armert og ikke armert da gikk alarmen pa Rygge" [The missile claimed both that it was armed and not armed - then the alarm went off at Rygge]. Norway Post (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2024-02-05.CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Parsch, Andreas, Kongsberg AGM-119 Penguin, DesignationSystems.net
- ↑ Ian J. Lochert, Richard M. Dexter and Brian L. Hamshere (2002), Evaluation of Australian RDX in PBXN-109 (PDF), Weapons Systems Division, Systems Sciences Laboratory, Australian Defense Science and Technology, DSTO-TN-0440
- ↑
Stephen Bryen (2022-06-09). "Moskva was possibly sunk by a Norwegian missile: Ukraine claim a R-360 Neptune killed Russian warship may aim to hide its actual use of Norway's 5th-generation NSM". Asia Times. Archived from the original on 2023-11-19. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
The prime suspect is a very advanced, fifth-generation missile developed by the Norwegian firm Kongsberg called the Naval Strike Missile (NSM), Norway’s successor to the highly successful Penguin anti-ship missile.