Forfølger (Missile)

The Forfølger was the first air-to-air missile developed in Ringerike, it was short-lived due to its many drawbacks. It was originally intended to be carried by the J.60 Spurvhauk ,which in prototype stages featured the required radar equipment that was removed due to the missile's withdrawal. The program however was not without merit, the design work and research done on the Forfølger informed the decision to pursue semi-active radar homing for future projects that would lead some of the components in the Himmelbue Air-to-air Missile. The principles behind the Forfølger were shared by the Luftvernmissil m/58 surface-to-air missile which remains in (extremely limited) service to the present day.

The Forfølger is a distinctive missile due to its twin solid rocket boosters, which would separate from the missile body once burned out, leaving the unpowered warhead to coast into the target. The missile was also unguided during the boost phase, and was "only just about effective against large a piston bomber". It was rapidly withdrawn and replaced with the vastly superior Lyn Infra-Read Homing Missile.