Lithuania signed a technical agreement with Norway on purchase of air defense system NASAMS, the contract Price is defined in 100 million Euro, this money will be purchased two anti-aircraft batteries, said the Ministry of defence of Lithuania. Norway will also assist in the implementation of the NASAMS system in the Lithuanian armed forces, quoted the Minister of national defence Juozas Olekas on the Internet representation offices. Delfi referring to the Ministry of defence emphasizes that air defense system would have cost just over 100 million euros, this amount is the Lithuanian armed forces will acquire two batteries of air defense. The air defense system NASAMS, Lithuania expects to receive by 2020. In may, Olekas said that Lithuania is going to purchase anti-aircraft missile complex medium-range NASAMS developed by the Norwegian Kongsberg Gruppen and supplier of the Pentagon Raytheon. First of intent to acquire a NASAMS expressed Poland. Norwegian television channel TV2 said on the first day of the week that the amount of the contract on purchase of a complex of Warsaw may exceed 10 billion Norwegian crowns (1, 20 billion dollars). NASAMS (Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile System) - Norwegian mobile anti-aircraft missile complex designed to combat maneuvering aerodynamic targets at low and medium altitudes, the air defense system of medium range. Range: 2, 5-40 km height defeat: 0, 03-16 km, the probability of hitting the target with one missile: 0, 85. Note also, according to the British analyst firm IHS, Markit, after the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, the military expenditure of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania grew at the fastest pace in the world.