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Russia’s 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade exercises winter warfare with drones and new weapons systems.
Russia’s scary Sarmat intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile is one step closer to being deployed.
Boiler at the central heating plant broke down in Zaozersk, the military town serving several of Russia’s nuclear powered submarines at the bases in Zapadnaya Litsa.
«Such behavior does not promote good neighborly relations.»
K-317 «Pantera» was tracking the foreign submarine for days, one of the crew members says in a TV-interview.
Under-ice navigation and torpedo exercises will last for the next five weeks.
Among them are 350 soldiers from the USA and other allied countries.
Director of the Norwegian Intelligence Service discloses information about Russian offensive exercises against targets in northern Norway.
Spy hunters revealed an increase in foreign intelligence activity last year, President Putin said on Monday.
The Russian President wants you to have a look at his new deadly weapons. And propose suitable names.
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Landing vessel «Aleksandr Otrakovsky» tested its anti-aircraft artillery in the Norwegian Sea.
It is developed on an order from Minister of Defence Sergey Shoigu and will include a shooting range, go-kart track as well as a tank training ground.
Residents in the closed military town of Zaozersk on the Barents Sea coast are left in freezing cold as the municipal heating network is shut down.
The exercise scenario included enemy aircraft attack of the important navy city.
Expeditionary forces will make comprehensive explorations of the country’s biggest Arctic archipelago.
Despite recent sabre-rattling, both the United States and Russia have met the limits set for the nuclear arsenal under the New START Treaty, which enters force today.
When a training missile exploded in the silo, Captain Igor Grishkov immediately dived his enormous Typhoon submarine to flush away burning rocket fuel before the other nuclear weapon-tipped missiles were set on fire.
The fleet of NH90s should instead serve the country’s frigates and help hunt down enemy submarines, a new defense report says.
First meeting between Russian and Norwegian defense ministries since 2013.
NATO and Russia’s cat-and-mouse game in the Norwegian and Barents Seas gives a sharp increase in allied port-calls, especially in northern Norway.
Journalists could be contacted by intelligence officers and used to covertly impact public debate and political decisions, according to the Police Security Service (PST).
They are quick and powerful, and are made for high pace through Arctic wilderness. Almost 100 new snowmobiles are delivered to Norwegian border guards as the local garrison beefs up capacities.
The Zvezdochka yard outside Arkhangelsk, northern Russia, demands another 6.8 billion ruble for its comprehensive modernization of nuclear submarine «Podmoskovye». The ministry responds with a 3.7 billion suit against the yard.
Sevmash steps up modernization of capacities at its naval yard in Severodvinsk, northern Russia.
Olenya Bay on the coast of the Barents Sea is home to a fleet of nuclear powered spy submarines and surface vessels which NATO now says are dramatically stepping up activities around undersea data cables in the North Atlantic.
Extreme wind conditions hindered Norway to scramble F-16s.
The «Ilya Muromets» is the Northern Fleet’s first new icebreaker in 45 years.
No country has ever carried out such extensive projects in the high north, the Russian military leader says in a recap of 2017.
The Yunarmiya now includes more than 1,600 youngsters from the Murmansk region. Many of them live in closed Navy towns.
New and upgraded air bases allow the Northern Fleet to extend the scope of its Arctic flights.
Russia’s 36-years old Typhoon submarine «Dmitry Donskoy» crushes the sea ice in the White Sea.
Russian security service officers are celebrating a century of counter-intelligence, and boast that a growing number foreign agents are being hooked. This month, they put retired Norwegian border inspector Frode Berg behind bars.
After postponed several times, a ejection test of the Sarmat (SS-X-30) took place at Plesetsk on Wednesday.