Denmark is expanding its anti-ship capabilities by acquiring additional Naval Strike Missiles (NSM) from Norway. The latest procurement builds upon an initial agreement established between the two Nordic nations in late 2025.
According to the Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization (DALO), these supplementary missiles will be used to upgrade the Royal Danish Navy’s frigates.
The new acquisition is being executed as a government-to-government sale between the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (Forsvarsmateriell, or FMA) and the DALO. Facilitating this expansion, the FMA has signed a contract modification with Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace for the production and delivery of the additional missiles. This supplementary contract is valued at approximately 400 million Norwegian Kroner (NOK).
Norwegian Minister of Defence Tore O. Sandvik emphasized the strategic importance of the deal: “The Nordic countries and the whole of NATO are now arming our defenses. I am glad that Denmark is now strengthening its defense with more NSM missiles from Norway’s Kongsberg. It also contributes to increased security for the entire Nordic region and the alliance.”
The decision to acquire more missiles underlines the importance of securing Danish territorial waters and chokepoints.
“At the same time, we are strengthening the Navy’s missile capacity and contributing to increasing Denmark’s overall defense capability,” stated Commander Steen Balslev, head of the maritime division at FMI.
FMA Director Gro Jære also highlighted the benefits of the bilateral procurement approach, noting that the acquisition is “yet another example of the close defense materiel cooperation between Norway and Denmark, and how government cooperation facilitates the acquisition of modern defense materiel for our allies.”
This order serves as a direct follow-on to Denmark’s initial procurement of the land-based NSM Coastal Defence System (CDS) in December 2025. That foundational contract, valued at more than €100 million, made Denmark the fifth NATO nation to select the mobile coastal artillery system, joining Poland, the United States (US Marine Corps), Romania, and Latvia. Delivery of these initial systems is expected to begin in 2026.
The Naval Strike Missile has become the weapon of choice for the Danish Armed Forces, having also been selected to replace the ship-based Harpoon anti-ship missiles aboard the Royal Danish Navy’s frigates.
Denmark has a strong historical precedent for land-based anti-ship capabilities. The country previously fielded truck-mounted Harpoon batteries, utilizing quadruple launchers salvaged from decommissioned Peder Skram-class frigates. While that unit was disbanded in 2003, Denmark later leveraged its institutional knowledge of the concept to assemble and donate a mobile Harpoon battery to Ukraine in 2022—a crucial contribution to the coastal defence of Odesa.
With the steady expansion of its NSM arsenal across both its frigate fleet and land-based coastal batteries, Denmark is solidifying its role in securing strategic waterways from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea, ensuring a robust and modernized deterrent for years to come.
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