Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS (KONGSBERG) has signed a contract valued 1 030
MNOK with Thales UK Ltd. for delivery of the PROTECTOR RS4 Remote Weapon
Stations (RWS) to the British Army Mechanized Infantry Vehicle (MIV) program.

More than 20.000 of the PROTECTOR RS family of RWS's has been delivered to 23
countries since the beginning of this century. KONGSBERG has provided UK with
PROTECTOR RWS's since 2008 and MIV is the seventh delivery contract including
two upgrades for the British Armed Forces. The PROTECTOR RS4 RWS will be
integrated on the British Army`s new fleet of BOXER 8x8 vehicles in close
cooperation with Thales UK, Rheinmetall and KMW. 

"We are very pleased that the British Army continues to rely on KONGSBERG as the
supplier of Remote Weapon Stations. This confirms the strong position of
KONGSBERG's PROTECTOR RS4 RWS, and continues the close relationship between
KONGSBERG, the British Armed Forces and Thales UK," says Pål E. Bratlie,
Executive Vice President Land Systems at Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS.

KONGSBERG has, for more than two decades, been the world leading global supplier
of Remote Weapon Systems. The PROTECTOR family of products has millions of hours
of operational use and is continuously evolved to meet increasingly demanding
requirements, utilizing advancements in technology.  in order to meet new
threats. The product range covers a wide variety from the small and light
systems to medium caliber Remote Turrets (RT series). Among a wide range of
capabilities the PROTECTOR family also enables dual-user operations, counter
UAS, multi-sensor fusion, manned-unmanned teaming solutions, a qualified Safe
operation via radio for use on UGVs as well as other new functions required by
the expanding user community.

For further information, please contact:
Ronny Lie, Group Vice President Communications, Kongsberg Gruppen ASA, Tel.:
(+47) 916 10 798.
Jan Erik Hoff, Group Vice President Investor Relations, Kongsberg Gruppen ASA,
Tel: (+47) 991 11 916.

Kongsberg (OSE-ticker: KOG) is an international, knowledge-based group that
supplies high-tech systems and solutions to customers in the merchant navy and
oil & gas, defence and aerospace industries. Kongsberg has almost 11,000
employees in 40 countries. Follow us on Twitter: @kongsbergasa.

This information is subject to disclosure requirements pursuant to §5-12 of the
Norwegian Securities Trading Act.