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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.
May 05, 2020
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.
May 04, 2020
Norway was not participating when the NATO allies tested anti-submarine warfare capabilities in the Norwegian Sea on May 1st.
May 01, 2020
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.
April 30, 2020
It is now considered as one of the best equipped research and survey ships in the Russian Navy.
April 29, 2020
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.
April 28, 2020
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.
April 26, 2020
The "Sevmorput" will break its way through Arctic ice to the Northern Fleet's new compound in Franz Josef Land.
April 23, 2020
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.
April 17, 2020
The top-secret missile was most likely what locals in two remote villages in the Russian north captured on camera on Wednesday.
April 16, 2020
The 96 meter long special-purpose ship "Akademik Aleksandrov" has been formally incorporated in Russia's Northern Fleet.
April 14, 2020
The upgraded version of MiG-31 interceptor-fighters based on the Kola Peninsula performed flights up to 17,000 meters.
April 11, 2020
Meanwhile, not a single Russian soldier has so far tested positive for the virus, the Ministry of Defense informs.
April 07, 2020
The S-300 missile complex is now operational in Tiksi, the Northern Fleet informs.
April 07, 2020
Russia’s National Anti-terrorism Committee says the man was planning to carry out a terrorist attack.
April 04, 2020
The Yasen-class nuclear subs will total nine vessels of which five are to be based in the Kola Peninsula.
April 03, 2020
Infantry units carry out exercise with howitzers, anti-aircraft missile systems and chemical reconnaissance vehicles.
March 31, 2020
A civilian who went onboard the cruise-missile carrier “Orel” had met with a man who tested positive to the coronavirus.
March 28, 2020
The K-157 "Vepr" is first of five upgraded Akula-class subs that are about to return to active duty in the Barents Sea.
March 24, 2020
The explosion happened Sunday afternoon at a weapons warehouse in Roslyakovo between Murmansk and Severomorsk.
March 22, 2020
In concerted action with fighter jets Mig-31BM and Su-24, air defense personnel in the remote Arctic archipelago exercised protection against enemy aircraft.
March 18, 2020
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.
March 17, 2020
The military force that is directly subordinated President Putin will guard key infrastructure objects in the Russian North.
March 16, 2020
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.
March 13, 2020
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.
March 12, 2020

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