Terma and Kongsberg launch a Danish-Norwegian venture to keep military aircraft flying
Defence Aviation Services, launched in Copenhagen on Wednesday, will deliver maintenance, repair and overhaul for military airborne platforms, drawing on KAMS experience with the F-35, the P-8 and the F-16 in Norway.
COPENHAGEN: Terma and Kongsberg Aviation Maintenance Services, known as KAMS, officially launched Defence Aviation Services on Wednesday, Oct. 21, a joint venture owned by the Danish and Norwegian companies, created to give Denmark more of its own capacity to sustain military aircraft and to serve wider Nordic and allied demand. A reception at the Norwegian Ambassador's residence in Copenhagen marked the launch, drawing the defence communities and industry of both countries.
"The European security situation calls for greater aviation sustainment capacity. Through Defence Aviation Services, we can take on more maintenance work, free military personnel for operational tasks, and build the sovereign capability Denmark and its allies will increasingly require," said Oscar Cosman Brøndum, the venture's interim chief executive.
The two parents bring different halves of the trade. Terma contributes its long standing experience supporting the Danish Armed Forces. From Norway, KAMS contributes a maintenance, repair and overhaul track record built over decades on the country's military fleets. Its work at home has covered engines and helicopters, modern types such as the F-35 and the P-8, the older F-16, and the logistics and training that go with them, the launch release said.
What the venture will do
The new company will maintain, repair and overhaul military aircraft, and says it will train the people, and build the industrial depth, that rising sustainment demand requires. Its aims include closer cooperation among Nordic and allied operators of the same aircraft types, a stronger base of skilled staff and sovereign industrial skill, and better readiness and security of supply in Denmark and the wider Nordic area.
"The launch of Defence Aviation Services reflects a shared belief that future defence challenges are best addressed through allied cooperation and strong national industrial capabilities," said Øyvind Kolset, the chairman of the KAMS board of directors. Henriette Hallberg Thygesen, the chief executive of Terma, said the ambition goes beyond creating additional maintenance capacity, towards a long term Nordic sustainment capability around shared military platforms.
The launch comes while European governments spend more on defence and focus harder on keeping the forces they have ready, supplied and serviceable for the long term, the release said. That shift creates demand not only for new platforms but for workshops, skilled hands and guaranteed access to maintenance across a platform's working life. Now that it has launched, the company is building up in Denmark, aiming to support fleets flown by Nordic and other allied air forces.
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