Security
NavyX, a British special program aimed at develop new technology for maritime warfare, chose Arctic conditions when several of its new "James Bond style" craft were tested for the first time.
A pair of F-35 fighter jets from Ørland air base and two F-16s from Bodø followed two Tu-142s and one MiG-31 over the Norwegian and North Sea Saturday.
At least five soldiers were injured as a drone carrying a bomb device crashed and exploded near the border to Norway and Finland.
Exciting moment for the video-filmer in the Russian Tu-142 as two of Norway's new F-35 fight jets approach wing-by-wing.
740 soldiers from northern Europe participate in the demanding winter war games taking place across Finland’s northernmost region Lapland.
Weather conditions were rough as the Northern Fleet's new tanker transferred several tons of liquids to state-of-the-arts frigate "Admiral Kasatonov".
A pair of Russian supersonic Tu-160 strategic bombers flew over the Barents, Norwegian and North Sea to south of Great Britain on Thursday. Another aircraft stayed circling in the air west of Norway’s air base in Bodø.
The military force that is directly subordinated President Putin will guard key infrastructure objects in the Russian North.
More than 15,000 soldiers from nine countries will put down their weapons and start preparing to go home from their current locations in northern Norway.
More than 1,000 men from Russia's Northern Fleet engage in combat training along the border to Norway
A pair of Northern Fleet Tu-142s has for the fourth time in just over two weeks been on mission outside Norway. The flight on Wednesday went all south to the Bay of Biscay.
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Less than a week after a pair of Russian strategic bombers were flying south outside European airspace, two American B-2A bombers were escorted by three Norwegian F-35 fighter jets over Iceland and the North Atlantic.
Talks are in process over possible flights to Korzunovo, the abandoned air field controlled by the Northern Fleet.
Northern Norway is battle zone in this year’s major allied Arctic exercise.
The ban includes all private drones with video, photo or other sensors for a period of one month in large area in northern Norway.
The Northern Fleet’s separate motorized rifle brigade in the Pechenga valley near Russia’s border to Norway has started to use UAVs to position targets during live-firing drills.
Norwegian and British fighter jets were scrambled two times this week to meet a pair of the Northern Fleet’s ASW aircraft on training mission over the Norwegian Sea.
The annual speech of President Putin to the Federal Security Service for the first time did not reveal the number of Russians and foreigners nabbed for espionage.
Surveillance of maritime traffic is key priority for the Northern Fleet’s UAV unit.
Oslo does not want the Russian Navy’s song and dance ensemble to participate in a Norwegian cultural festival.
Kremlin seeks to exploit any issue that can create split, said Lt. Gen. Morten Haga Lunde when presenting the Intelligence Service’s 2020 review of security threats to Norway.
Key law enforcement authorities of the Russian Arctic region joined forces in exercise onboard two retired nuclear-powered icebreakers docked in Kola Bay.
Two of Russia’w most advance radar systems are under building in the Kola Peninsula. They will complement similar systems in Novaya Zemlya and Arkhangelsk.
“We should expect development and testing of new, advanced weapons systems in the areas east of Norway. Several of these will have nuclear propulsion systems,” said Director of the Norwegian Intelligence Service, Lt. Gen. Morten Haga Lunde.
“As normal there are no evidence, just general speculations,” the Embassy writes in a statement to the Barents Observer.
A third ship for northern waters might be built by the Vyborg Yard outside St.Petersburg.
Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) sees the announced missile shootings as a response to next month’s exercise Cold Response which takes place north of the Arctic Circle.
Two big naval vessels from the Northern Fleet trained combat against enemy aircrafts off the Norwegian coast.
New fighter jets, surveillance aircraft, submarines, air defense systems and a significant boost in manpower is on its way to the Nordic country’s defense forces.
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.
