3,000 NATO soldiers will participate in this winter’s Joint Viking exercise at Setermoen north of the Arctic Circle, among them more than 1,000 U.S. Marines.
Rapidly melting sea ice and increasingly navigable Arctic waters – a so-called Blue Arctic – will create new challenges and opportunities for the United States, requiring “sustained American naval presence and partnerships in the Arctic region,” according to the new U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Arctic strategy.
The dummy-nuclear warheads all reached their designated targets at a test range on the coast to the eastern Barents Sea, according to Russia's Defense Ministry.
President Vladimir Putin has a signed a decree appointing the powerful leader of the Arctic forces to Admiral, the second-highest rank in the Russian navy.
Russia's construction of nuclear-powered submarines hits post-Soviet peak. 15 sub are currently at different stages of readiness at the shipyard in Severodvinsk.
The Northern Fleet's aircraft carrier will embark on tests in the Barents Sea in 2022 with main boilers, diesel generators and main turbo-gear units replaced.
Nine month after Vladimir Putin ordered its construction, the new medical center stands ready to treat patients from the far northern military district.
The Northern Fleet's Center of Radio-Electronic Warfare has rolled out and tested its Murmansk-BN complex which are designed to suppress enemy radio signals at distances of up to 5,000 kilometers.
From the Russian sector of the Barents Sea, the new missile can reach targets in the Norwegian Sea in about 10 minutes after launch if the Northern Fleet chose to activate its Bastion defence concept.
Is really KV Svalbard's voyage far north of Siberia happening without informing Russia and as a deliberated military provocation on behalf of the United States?
