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Oman  has requested the purchase of Avenger Fire Units, STINGER Missiles and Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missiles

Oman is looking to purchase the following items;
  • 18 Avenger Fire Units
  • 266 FIM-92 Stinger -Reprogrammable Micro-Processor (RMP) Block 1 Man Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS) for The Avenger System
  • 6 STINGER Block 1 Production Verification Flight Test missiles
  • 24 Captive Flight Trainers
  • 18 AN/VRC-92E exportable Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio Systems (SINCGARS)
  • 20 S250 Shelters
  • 20 High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs)
  • 1 lot AN/MPQ-64F1 SENTINEL Radar software
  • 290 AIM-120C-7 Surface-Launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles
  • 6 Guidance Sections,
  • Surface-Launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (SL-AMRAAM) software to support Oman’s Ground Based Air defense System,
Total cost of the whole package including training & logistics support will be around $1.248 billion.

The Avenger Air Defense System (AN/TWQ-1) uses FIM-92 Stinger Man Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS) to provide  short-range air defense protection from cruise missiles, UAV, low-flying aircraft, and helicopters at range of about 5 km.

SL-AMRAAM(Surface-Launched Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile) fire unit carries 4 to 6   fire and-forget AIM-120C-7 AMRAAM beyond-visual-range (BVR) missiles mounted on an Army High Mobility Multi-Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) along with the AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel surveillance radar. 

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