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The Norwegian forces based in Kirkenes for the first time conduct live fire exercise with a Javelin anti-tank missile. The training is part of Norway's buildup of military capacities in the North.
In an early June decree, President Vladimir Putin de facto equals the Northern Fleet with a military district.
The NATO warplanes on June 3 were exercising in international airspace just outside Finnmark.
The submarine adds at least 96 nuclear warheads to the navy sailing out from the Kola Peninsula.
"Knyaz Vladimir" is currently sailing the White Sea on finale stage of sea trials.
The US strategic bombers were exercising in the airspace over both Norway and Sweden on May 20.
The Norwegian Foreign Minister says the arms control deal is part of a common security architecture serving the interests of Norway, NATO, and allies.
A total of 169 new cases were registered in Arkhangelsk region over the last 24 hours, more than 150 of them in the strategically important city of Severodvinsk.
One year after the fatal accident with a nuclear-powered missile in the White Sea, Russia's weapon designers say a test launch the Poseidon nuclear powered underwater drone will take place this fall.
Their objective is to challenge the current legal and territorial status of the region and undermine Russia's development of natural resources, leader of FSB's Border Guard Service Vladimir Kulishov argues.
With short notice, the Russian Northern Fleet announces via its own media a large-scale exercise to happen later this month in the Barents- and Norwegian Seas involving 30 surface ships, a few submarines, support vessels and more than 20 aircraft.
Embarrassing leaks about troop movements or secret operations should come to an end, the Russian President orders.
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The US and UK naval group leaves the Barents Sea Friday evening after five days in waters where Russia's Northern Fleet normally exercises. The voyage marks a new age with U.S. Navy surface warships sailing in the north.
The "Sevmorput" will break its way through Arctic ice to the Northern Fleet's new compound in Franz Josef Land.
As the number of Russian soldiers infected with the coronavirus increases rapidly, the Northern Fleet showers its bases in the Kola Peninsula with disinfecting materials.
Without any Norwegians participating, the group of one British and four U.S. warships sailed into the Barents Sea for "maritime security operations." The U.S. Navy has not operated in the Barents Sea with surface vessels since the mid-1980’s. Russia's Northern Fleet assets have begun tracking NATO’s surface action group.
Norway was not participating when the NATO allies tested anti-submarine warfare capabilities in the Norwegian Sea on May 1st.
Nobody has jumped from such heights so far north. "First time in world history," said Russian Deputy Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, about the special exercise at the Franz Josef Land.
UAV developed for Arctic military surveillance operations. Photo: Press service of Russian Ministry of Defense
Photo: Press service of Russian Ministry of Defense
Photo: Press service of Russian Ministry of Defense
Photo: Press service of Russian Ministry of Defense
Photo: Press service of Russian Ministry of Defense
Photo: Press service of Russian Ministry of Defense
Just a few hours after he was sworn in as Russia’s president for the third time, in May 2012, Vladimir Putin signed a decree ordering the development of the Navy in the Arctic. Now, eight years later, the results are highly visible on satellite photos of the Kola Peninsula. And more is to come.
As a big transport plane Il-76 lands on the Nagurskoye base in Franz Josef Land, the Northern Fleet announces that the remote airfield now can be applied through the whole year.
It is now considered as one of the best equipped research and survey ships in the Russian Navy.
British Air Traffic Control says Russia’s long-range military aviation, flying south outside Norway towards the North Sea, is posing a hazard to civilian air traffic.
There are forces that want to weaken unity in Norway, as well as between western countries, Prime Minister Erna Solberg underlined as she on Friday presented her government's new long-term plan for the Armed Forces.
The 96 meter long special-purpose ship "Akademik Aleksandrov" has been formally incorporated in Russia's Northern Fleet.
The top-secret missile was most likely what locals in two remote villages in the Russian north captured on camera on Wednesday.
The upgraded version of MiG-31 interceptor-fighters based on the Kola Peninsula performed flights up to 17,000 meters.
Meanwhile, not a single Russian soldier has so far tested positive for the virus, the Ministry of Defense informs.
In concerted action with fighter jets Mig-31BM and Su-24, air defense personnel in the remote Arctic archipelago exercised protection against enemy aircraft.
The explosion happened Sunday afternoon at a weapons warehouse in Roslyakovo between Murmansk and Severomorsk.
The K-157 "Vepr" is first of five upgraded Akula-class subs that are about to return to active duty in the Barents Sea.
A civilian who went onboard the cruise-missile carrier “Orel” had met with a man who tested positive to the coronavirus.
Infantry units carry out exercise with howitzers, anti-aircraft missile systems and chemical reconnaissance vehicles.
The Yasen-class nuclear subs will total nine vessels of which five are to be based in the Kola Peninsula.
Russia’s National Anti-terrorism Committee says the man was planning to carry out a terrorist attack.
The S-300 missile complex is now operational in Tiksi, the Northern Fleet informs.
