Security
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.
Norway’s king and prime minister met Russia’s Sergey Lavrov by a memorial devoted to Soviet liberation of Norwegian border town Kirkenes.
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Research vessels operated by Russia’s Northern Fleet have this summer mapped several thousand square kilometers of the Arctic shelf.
1400 army- and home guard soldiers participate in a co-exercise with the air force in Troms and western Finnmark.
Two Kalibr cruise missiles that can carry nuclear warheads were launched from the Barents Sea on Thursday as part of the Grom-2019 exercise.
Several areas in the Barents Sea are closed off making ready for ballistic missile shootings from submarines from October 15 to 17.
"Russia has invented new weapons of war that harken back to an age when a nuclear balance of terror reigned," a U.S. State Department official said to the United Nations' Disarmament and International Security Committee.
NATO’s northernmost country with direct border to Russia’s militarized Kola Peninsula relies heavily on allied reinforcements, but lacks capacity to join when its allies will train how to provide support in a war scenario.
Battle cruiser «Pyotr Veliky» was among the ships that this week engaged in an exercise on hunt-down of enemy submarines in the Barents Sea.
Unclear if the barges hold the damaged small-size reactor or isotope source.
Just few days before international Arctic expedition MOSAiC crossed into the waters south of Franz Josef Land, the Northern Fleet held a major shooting exercise in the area.
This year’s major expedition of the Northern Fleet is completed with an ice hockey match on a rare Arctic rink.
"Severodvinsk" is Russia's most advanced submarine and is based less than 60 km from the border to Norway.
State military shipping company Oboronlogistika has this year delivered 30,000 tons of goods to Russia’s new Navy bases in the High Arctic.
It is not very often nowadays you see a grey-colored ship from a NATO country sailing into a Russian port.
With a longer range than previous systems, the S-400 will protect air space over the eastern Barents Sea where Russia’s ballistic missile submarines are patrolling.
Click on gallery to see more photos. Photo: Northern Fleet press service
Click on gallery to see more photos. Photo: Northern Fleet press service
Click on gallery to see more photos. Photo: Northern Fleet press service
Click on gallery to see more photos. Photo: Northern Fleet press service
Click on gallery to see more photos. Photo: Northern Fleet press service
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Video footage from a beach near weapon testing area Nenoksa shows helicopters, excavators and men in protection gear involved in the removing of radioactive debris from last month’s nuclear accident.
Russian soldiers were put on alert on Wednesday and subsequently moved towards training fields in the Pechenga area.
The installation at Cape Chelyuskin is reported to cost 1.2 billion rubles
Saida Bay and two other key nuclear waste facilities on the Kola Peninsula violate the law on physical protection, a regional court ruling says.
Russia’s Northern Fleet takes action against ship suspected of violating sailing regulations in the remote Arctic waters.
Troops from the Northern Fleet boast Russia’s reenforced presence in the High Arctic as they stage major military drills on the remote archipelago of Severnaya Zemlya.
Together with Polish forces, the Norwegian Navy is testing its main anti-ship weapon in a fjord near Tromsø, Northern Norway
The modernised T-80BVM is the tank best suited for Arctic operations, the Northern Fleet says.
The flag and flagpole erected on Cape Fligeli symbolizes our urge towards peaceful exploration and development of the Arctic, the country’s Northern Fleet says.
