Security
Embarrassing leaks about troop movements or secret operations should come to an end, the Russian President orders.
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.
Siste/ mest lest
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.
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
