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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In concerted action with fighter jets Mig-31BM and Su-24, air defense personnel in the remote Arctic archipelago exercised protection against enemy aircraft.
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.
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.
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.