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- 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
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- 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
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- 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