Finnish Defence Forces orders David's Sling SAM

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Finnish army buys David's Sling (in Finnish)

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The Defense Forces will acquire a new anti-aircraft anti-missile system from the Israeli Ministry of Defense. The Ministry of Defense informs about it in its press release.

The Defense Forces will acquire the David's Sling system, which is an anti-aircraft system jointly developed by Israel and the United States. Selling the system to Finland requires a US sales license.

STT says that the procurement has been prepared since 2017.

With the help of the system, a better high-altitude defense capability is built for air defense than the current one and the scope of air defense is significantly increased. In the tender request, the minimum requirement for the height dimension of the system was set at 15 kilometers.

The value of the acquisition is approximately EUR 316 million. The system is supplied by Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.

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The acquisition is to cover retirement of Buk M1 system which took place few years ago. David's Sling beat Barak-MX in final evaluation.
Other shortlisted systems were:
IRIS-T with Saab Giraffe radar (Diehl)
NASAMS with Extended Range missile (Kongsberg)
Land Ceptor with CAMM-ER and Giraffe (MBDA)
 
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