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Photo: Northern Fleet press service
Photo: Northern Fleet press service
Photo: Northern Fleet press service
Photo: Northern Fleet press service
Photo: Northern Fleet press service
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Photo: Northern Fleet press service
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Photo: Northern Fleet press service
Photo: Northern Fleet press service
KIMEK shipyard and other port facilities in Kirkenes are frequently serving Russian fishing boats. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The sign, also with Russian text, informs travellers about entering the area of restriction in vicinity to the Garrison of Sør-Varanger. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Strømmen bridge crosses over Langfjorden south of Kirkenes. The European Route E6 is the only road linking the border areas to Russia with the rest of Finnmark region in northernmost Norway. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
A sandbagged guard post is overlooking the Strømmen bridge not far from the shoreline. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The "Melkart-5" is a Russian flagged trawler owned by Murman Seafood. Photo: Murman SeaFood
U.S. Soldiers assigned to “Viper Company”, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) brought military terrain vehicles to the exercise Ryske 2022. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Finnish soldiers from the Jaeger Brigade in Sodankylä. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Conscript Adrian Isaksen and Lt. Anders Smith with the Porsanger battalion were in charge of radio communication during the exercise. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Some 150 soldiers from the Porsanger battalion participated in exercise Ryske 22. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Three countries, three commanders, discussing the progress of exercise Ryske at the Rovajärvi artillery training ground in northern Finland. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Finland's SISU armoured vehicles are used for transporting troops in the terrain. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The Rovajärvi military training ground between Kemijärvi, Sodankylä and Rovaniemi in northern Finland is the largest for artillery exercises in Western Europe. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Commander Szorady led the U.S. Army airborne troopers participating in exercise Ryske 22. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Company commander, Capt. Petter Nybøle Lie, with the Porsanger battalion. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Norwegian soldiers smiling after beating the U.S. troopers in one of the battles of exercise Ryske. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Photo: Thomas Nilsen
SISU XA (Patria Pasi) armoured personnel vehicle made in Finland. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Two U.S. Army soldiers studying the map of the exercise area west of Kemijärvi. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The «USS New Mexico» at Norfolk Naval Station. This Virginia class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine made port call to Tromsø, northern Norway in May 2021. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The «USS Vella Gulf» is a guided missile cruiser of the Ticonderoga class that normally sails together with aircraft carriers. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The «USS Vella Gulf» carries anti-submarine torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles. It also has two lightweight guns like this one on the forward deck. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Capt. Michael Desmond (right) is Commanding Officer of «USS Vella Gulf». Photo: Thomas Nilsen
NATO Headquarters for Supreme Allied Commander Transformation in Norfolk, Virginia. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
"From Florida to Finnmark - From Seabed to Space" reads the sign in the entrance hall to NATO's Joint Force Command Norfolk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Hangar bay on «USS George H. W. Bush» - a carrier that can take more than 70 aircraft here and on the main flight deck. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Flight deck on the aircraft carrier «USS George H. W. Bush». Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The carrier is named after George H. W. Bush who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. A statue of Bush from the times he served as a pilot is placed in the hangar bay of the giant ship. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
TOP GUN: A fighter jet can take off every 30-seconds from the flight deck. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Models are used in the flight deck control room to keep overview of the aircraft positions. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Fighter jets are lifted from the hangar bay to the flight deck. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The «USS George H. W. Bush» is 333-meters long and has a weight of more than 100,000 tons - making it one of the largest warships in the world. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Lt. William Sprott shows the variety of weapons to be carried by the P-8 Poseidon: Torpedo, bomb and the Harpoon anti-ship cruise missile. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Two racks for numerous sonobuoys and three pressurised launchers are located in the back of the cabin of the P-8s. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Six months of training in Florida will be followed by another six months at Evenes Air Station in northern Norway for Espen Sollid and Lars Johansen from Tromsø. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
A workplace unlike others: Espen Sollid and Lars Johansen disembarking the P-8 Poseidon plane at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida. After training, the two will search for Russian submarines from the skies above Arctic waters. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
All take-offs and landings at NAS Jacksonville are monitored and cleared from the control tower. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Big touchscreen simulators are developed by Boeing for training of the maintenance personell. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Model of the specialist radar in the nose of the plane. The radar has a range of up to 250 nautical miles and can detect a submarine if only the periscope is above water line. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida is home to Patrol Squadron THIRTY (VP-30) and the Squadron that prepares and trains pilots and operators for domestic and foreign P-8 maritime patrol aircraft. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Ready for mission: Crew on their way to board the plane for a flight outside the coast of Florida. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Maintenance work in one of the hangars at NAS Jacksonville. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Pilot Lt. Montana Marsh in cockpit of the P-8 Poseidon, an aircraft he flew when participating in the Norwegian-led exercise Cold Response in March 2022. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Espen Sollid and Lars Johansen get good marks from these two American instructors at NAS Jacksonville. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Touchscreen simulator for maintenance work in the cockpit of the P-8. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
A P-8 Poseidon takes-off for Atlantic mission outside Florida. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
One of Norway's old P-3C Orion turboprop. The Saint as a badge on the tail is a tradition to be continued on the new P-8 Poseidon planes. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
"Stop Putin, Don't Bomb Ukraine," reads the sign as some 150 people marched towards the border river Pasvik. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The Norwegian- Russian border follows the deepest part of the Pasvik river. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Russia is on the other side of the frozen river. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Some 150 people participated in the protest march. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Protest against Putin's war on Ukraine outside Russia's Consulate General in Kirkenes. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Aleksandr Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin. Photo: Kremlin. (Click on the image for more photos).
The big screen shows the map of the Barents Sea from where supersonic air-launched Kinzhal cruise missiles were launched from MiG-31K fighter jets towards sea- and land targets. Photo: Kremlin
President Putin is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Photo: Kremlin
A MiG-31K ready for take-off with the Kinzhal missile from a military airfield on the Kola Peninsula. Photo from a video by the Defense Ministry
A MiG-31K launches the Kinzhal missile. Photo from video by the Defense Ministry
Control room for launching a Kalibr cruise missile from a submarine in the Barents Sea. Photo from video by the Defense Ministry
A Kalibr cruise missile was launched from a submarine. Blue skies indicate that this is an older film. On Saturday, it was clouded and snowy in the Barents Sea. Photo from video by the Defense Ministry
Tu-95 long-range strategic bombers took part in the exercise and launched a cruise missiles towards targets at the Pemboi and Kura ranges. Photo from video by the Defense Ministry
Control room for the launch of a Yars ballistic missile from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. Photo from a video by the Defense Ministry
The RS-24 Yars is a mobile-based intercontinental ballistic missile armed with a payload containing several thermonuclear warheads. This missile was Saturday tested from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. Photo from video by the Defense Ministry
The Yars ballistic missile launched from Plesetsk hit a target on the Kura range in Russia's Far East. Photo from video by the Defense Ministry
The Delta-IV class submarine "Karelia" launched a Sineva ballistic missile. Photo from video by the Defense Ministry
Control post for missile launch in "Karelia" nuclear-powered submarine sailing the Barents Sea. Photo from video by the Defense Ministry
A Norwegian F-35 follows the Russian Beriev A-50 plane north of Norway. Photo: Norwegian Air Force
The Beriev A-50 is an early warning and control aircraft often flying together with a group of long-range bombers and fighter jets out of Russian airspace northwest of the Kola Peninsula and north of Norway. Photo: Norwegian Air Force
A large surveillance radar with its antenna in an over-fuselage rotodome, which has a diameter of 9 metres, makes the Beriev A-50 very characteristic. Photo: Norwegian Air Force
Two Norwegian F-35 on NATO's Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) scrambled from Evenes airport inside the Arctic Circle on Wednesday to identify the Russian military planes. Photo: Tiril Haslestad/ Norwegian Armed Forces
CLICK FOR MORE PHOTOS. The soldiers with the engineering squad make ready one of the anti-tank mines. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Ultimost careful when handling high-explosives. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The training ground for detonating explosives is down deep in a closed open-pit iron-ore mine near Kirkenes. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Anti-tank mine on the ground is made ready. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
All gear has to be double-checked. Safety is everything when dealing with explosives and weapons. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Chief of the Garrison of Sør-Varanger, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Rozmara. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Walking to a safe distance before blowing up the anti-tank mine. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The blast as seen through the lens of Barents Observer's camera at a distance of a kilometer. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Military vehicle in the open-pit mine. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The blast took place in the open-pit mine of Sydvaranger iron-ore company at a distance of 2,5 kilometers from the border to Russia. Photo by Google maps
