Nammo

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Type Private Net income NOK 277 million (2009) Headquarters Raufoss, Norway		Operating income NOK 407 million (2009) Number of employees 1,900 (2009) Founded 1998

Key people Morten Brandtzæg (CEO), Products Ammunition, missile and propulsion systems Revenue NOK 3439 million (2009) Parent organization Ministry of Trade and Industry (67.5%) Subsidiaries Nammo Lapua Oy, Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker

Vihtavuori powders acquired by nammo parent company of lapua

Nammo short for Nordic Ammunition Company is a Norwegian/Finnish aerospace and defence group specialized in production of ammunition, rocket motors and space applications. The company has subsidiaries in Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Australia, the United States and Canada. The company is owned 50/50 by the Norwegian Government represented by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries and the Finnish defence company Patria. The company has its headquarters in Raufoss, Norway.

The company has five business units: Small Caliber Division, Medium & Large Caliber Division, Missile Products Division, Demil Division and Nammo Talley.

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History

Nammo was founded in 1998 by Raufoss, Patria, and Celsius. Raufoss was later demerged continued though operations by Norsk Hydro and Raufoss Technology. The ownership of Nammo was transferred to the government of Norway. [1]

Missile propulsion

AIM-120 AMRAAM

RIM-162 ESSM

IRIS-T (under license)

Exocet

AIM-9 Sidewinder

Penguin

Naval Strike Missile (Only rocket booster)

ARIANE 5 (Separation & Acceleration Boosters)

HVM (Hyper Velocity Missile)

RBS 23 BAMSE SAM

IDAS (Interactive Defence & Attack for Submarines)

Orbital launch vehicle

In January 2013, Nammo and the Andøya Rocket Range spaceport announced that they would be "developing an orbital Nanosatellite launch vehicle (NLV) rocket system called North Star that will use a standardized hybrid motor, clustered in different numbers and arrangements, to build two types of sounding rockets and an orbital launcher" that would be able to deliver a 10 kg (22 lb) nanosat into polar orbit.