Denmark will acquire short-range ground-based anti-air systems from manufacturers in France, Germany and Norway to protect its civilians and military installations, the defence ministry announced on Tuesday.

The Scandinavian country will buy the weapons systems, worth more than six billion kroner ($919 million), from Germany's Diehl Defence and MBDA France, and lease them from Norway's Kongsberg.

The systems will be placed in strategic locations across Denmark, Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen told reporters.

"Denmark needs to quickly build a ground-based air defence that can defend the civilian population, military targets and critical infrastructure against threats from the air," said a ministry statement.

"The systems will gradually be operational from the end of 2025 to the sta

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