Oman Looks to Purchase SL-AMRAAM & Avenger Air Defense System

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.