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A historic chapter in NATO’s Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) comes to an end as the F-16 Fighting Falcon flies last mission on January 6 and Bodø Air Base shuts down.

Russia has now sealed off its Arctic borders to aggressive military activity from foreign countries, the defense minister said in this week's address on the state of the Russian Armed Forces.

"The prevailing policy of Washington is to destroy the previously reached agreements in the field of arms control," the Russian Foreign Ministry says in a statement on December 18 as the country is now formally out of the Open Skies Treaty.

Serial production of Russia’s hypersonic navy missile has started and construction of the first storage site is underway near Severomorsk.

The Government in Helsinki on Friday announced it has chosen the American Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 fighter jets to replace the current fleet of F/A-18 Hornets.

The destroyer “Vice-Admiral Kulakov” and support vessels are conducting combat training missions in the Norwegian Sea says the press service of the Northern Fleet.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova on Friday said the recent navy visit to Svalbard is the latest step by Oslo in a series of successive actions to include this territory in the sphere of national military development.

Busy day in the skies over the Barents- and Norwegian Seas as NATO scrambled F-16s and F-35s to meet a pair of Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers and other military aircraft, while a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft for several hours flew back-and-forth outside the important submarine bases at the Kola Peninsula.

Ensuring Norwegian sovereignty in territorial waters around the Arctic archipelago is the purpose of the high-profile navy voyage.

The ballistic missile was launched from the White Sea and hit a target at the Kura test site in Kamchatka.

There are 'tense and unpredictable' changes in the operational environment, the national security document reads.