"Russia has invented new weapons of war that harken back to an age when a nuclear balance of terror reigned," a U.S. State Department official said to the United Nations' Disarmament and International Security Committee.
NATO’s northernmost country with direct border to Russia’s militarized Kola Peninsula relies heavily on allied reinforcements, but lacks capacity to join when its allies will train how to provide support in a war scenario.
Just few days before international Arctic expedition MOSAiC crossed into the waters south of Franz Josef Land, the Northern Fleet held a major shooting exercise in the area.
Video footage from a beach near weapon testing area Nenoksa shows helicopters, excavators and men in protection gear involved in the removing of radioactive debris from last month’s nuclear accident.
With a longer range than previous systems, the S-400 will protect air space over the eastern Barents Sea where Russia’s ballistic missile submarines are patrolling.
Troops from the Northern Fleet boast Russia’s reenforced presence in the High Arctic as they stage major military drills on the remote archipelago of Severnaya Zemlya.
The flag and flagpole erected on Cape Fligeli symbolizes our urge towards peaceful exploration and development of the Arctic, the country’s Northern Fleet says.
New satellite images from from the secret base of Russia’s Main Directorate for Deep Sea Research on the coast of the Kola Peninsula show that two pens with beluga whales are tied up with extra mooring ropes to hinder the animals to escape.
With a second Borei-class submarine soon to be delivered, the number of Bulava ballistic missiles deployed for patrol in the Barents- and Arctic Seas will be doubled.