Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) is one of three business units of Kongsberg Gruppen (KONGSBERG) of Norway and a supplier of defence and space related systems and products, mainly anti-ship missiles, military communications, and command and weapons control systems for naval vessels and air-defence applications. Today, the company is probably best known abroad for its development/industrialisation and production of the first passive IR homing anti-ship missile of the western world, the Penguin, starting delivery in the early 1970s. As of 2021, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace had 3,500 employees.
US Seahawk launching AGM-119 Penguin (2002)
Protector RWS on top of an M1126 Stryker (2005)
Norwegian NASAMS (2005)
Kongsberg Gruppen is an international technology group headquartered in Norway, that supplies high-technology systems to customers in the merchant marine, defence, aerospace, offshore oil and gas industries, and renewable and utilities industries.
Danish M.1889 Carbine
Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk, photographed by Jules David in 1899
Personnel group photograph by Jules David, 1899
Danish M.1889 Carbine