Security
A former officer from the Headquarters of the Armed Forces in Northern Norway told about the surfacing submarine in a TV documentary by NRK about the Cold War.
MiG-31K fighter jets armed with the new Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile based at Kola, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya could in practice pose a threat it is not possible to defend against in the European Arctic, northern Scandinavia and North-Atlantic.
An ambitious plan to knock down 400 shabby apartment blocks and build new ones was presented by Murmansk regional authorities on Friday.
The rebuilt version of the passenger aircraft Tu-204/214 will be Russia’s equivalent to the U.S. built Boeing P-8 Poseidon that Norway, among others, will deploy for surveillance flights over the Barents- and Norwegian Seas.
U.S. troops will take part in Cold Response, the Norway-led winter drills, but with substantially fewer soldiers than originally planned.
As the country’s one and only vessel of the kind lies damaged by accident and fire at port in Murmansk, the President puts his eyes on a brand new project.
The church icon that serves as patron for Russia’s Navy sailors is visiting the Northern Fleet base towns in the Kola Peninsula.
The "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky" will improve search- and rescue capabilities in Russia’s western Arctic region.
“Knyaz Vladimir”, the first upgraded Borey-A class submarine, will not be handed over to the navy by the end of 2019 as planned.
After the two previous 4th generation multi-purpose submarines experienced long delays in construction, Russia now seems to have gain speed at the shipyard in Severodvinsk.
It is the Norwegian Intelligence Service that on Friday reports about the disturbances.
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Yunarmiya, the «youth army» established by the Russian Ministry of Defense, recruits more youngsters in the border towns of Nikel and Zapolyarny.
The fire on "Admiral Kuznetsov" at yard No. 35 started during welding work in one of the engine rooms.
The anti-aircraft missile system will over the next years be deployed in all the country’s Arctic divisions, Northern Fleet Head Commander Aleksandr Moiseev says.
The Federal Security Service claims the arrested man is a supporter of the Right Sector extremist organization.
Russia’s new - and most advanced - nuclear powered submarine is one of the vessels continuing shootings.
The Kinzhal missile was launched from a MiG-31K taking off from Olenegorsk airbase on the Kola Peninsula.
«USS Minnesota» takes part in the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between NATO and Russian subs in the Norwegian Sea.
With weapons on the shoulders, infantry solders learn how to traverse Arctic borderlands with dogs.
The decision to build one more office complex for the security service comes only three years after the Stalin-styled new headquarters opened.
President Putin assembles his top military aides to discuss the development of the Navy and Northern Fleet.
The Tsirkon scramjet-powered cruise missile is said to travel at a speed making it impossible to intercept by any known means.
The Tor-M2DT has been officially handed over units in the Northern Fleet’s motorized infantry units in Pechenga.
The «Admiral Kasatonov» is to be officially included in the Russian Navy in the course of 2019.
Ex-border inspector Frode Berg is now on his way home to Kirkenes after 23 months in FSB’s notorious Lefortovo prison in Moscow.
The «Knyaz Vladimir» has successfully fired torpedoes on underwater and surface targets in the White Sea, the Northern Fleet informs.
Moscow wants to know more about the country’s buildup of military capacities in the north.
The Northern Fleet complements its motorized infantry units with a series of new and powerful T-80BVM tanks.
Three U.S. B-52 strategic bombers; P8 maritime patrol aircraft, tankers and a RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft were flying over the Barents Sea on Wednesday. Norwegian F-16 fighter jets followed the huge American bombers to 31° East.
The «Gremyashchii» will test its Kalibr cruise missiles in the Barents Sea.
At least eight nuclear-powered submarines sailed out from their homeports on the Kola Peninsula last week, the Norwegian military intelligence says to NRK.
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Simultaneously as the Northern Fleet sails the largest submarine maneuverer since the days of the Cold War, the “Knyaz Vladimir” Borei-class sub for the first time launched a test missile that cross the Arctic an hit the target on Kamchatka in the Far East.
Russia’s military-patriotic Yunarmiya – or Youth Army – got Norwegian funding to tour the country’s northeastern border region. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee says representatives of such movement should not have been invited to a peace anniversary.
High-level confidence building in Norwegian-Russian borderland on Friday made foreign minister Sergey Lavrov to soften the wording on Norway’s military policy.
