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Experiences from Syria important for Northern Fleet, says new head commander

«Syrian experiences are successfully being applied in the North.»
June 25, 2019

Russia’s new Arctic missile knocks out targets in massive test launch

At least 4 powerful belt wagons roll into the terrain and fire the missiles that soon will be deployed along the Russian Arctic coast.
June 14, 2019

Russian elite troops train landing near border to Norway

A big landing ship sails into the Pechenga Bay to pick up marine infantry from nearby garrisons.
June 10, 2019

A powerful Russian flotilla is on its way to the Barents Sea

More than 15 surface vessels, several submarines and support ships, as well as aircraft and helicopters, take part in the Northern Fleet exercise now in the making along the coast of the Kola Peninsula.
May 30, 2019

Murmansk gets Russia’s biggest dry dock

It will replace the floating dry dock that last year sunk into the Arctic waters of the Kola Bay.
May 28, 2019

Exercise Barents, unique cross-border Arctic rescue cooperation

Click on the gallery above to see all photos from the cross-border rescue training in the Barents Sea.
May 27, 2019

Satellite images reveal Russian navy's secret Arctic marine mammal facility

These pens near the naval town of Polyarny on the Kola Peninsula might very well be the home from where runaway ‘Whaledimir’ beluga escaped from. Or was he brought to Norwegian waters on purpose?
May 27, 2019

Wheels up for airforce exercise in the skies over northern Scandinava

The biennial air force exercise Arctic Challenge is in full swing with more than 100 aircraft from nine nations.
May 26, 2019

Design flaws delay Russia’s most high-tech nuclear submarine

The auxiliary systems onboard the Yasen-M class submarine «Kazan» do not meet the Defense Ministry’s requirements.
May 24, 2019

Moscow threatens response against Norwegian radar near Russian border

In her weekly briefing for the press, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Thursday came with a direct warning to Norway.
May 23, 2019

Russia says its radio-electronic shield now covers the Arctic

New systems for radio-electronic warfare installed along the country’s Arctic coast are able to jam foreign ships and aircrafts several thousand kilometers away.
May 21, 2019

Russian navy with artillery shooting in Norwegian Sea, second in a month

Northern Fleet warship «Severomorsk» tested its weapons systems outside the coast of northern Norway.
May 16, 2019

US, Norwegian troops join military drill in northern Finland

A major international military exercise began in Sodankylä, Finnish Lapland, on Wednesday. About 100 foreign soldiers are taking part in manoeuvres in Sodankylä, along with several Norwegian tanks.
May 16, 2019

Putin appoints new leader of Northern Fleet

Aleksandr Moiseev served 29 years onboard nuclear submarines. Now, he is the new commander in charge of Russia’s most powerful fleet.
May 09, 2019

Ships bring 20,000 tons of construction materials to world’s northernmost airstrip

The runway in Russia’s Arctic military base of Nagurskoye will strengthen Russia’s control over Arctic air space.
May 07, 2019

Pentagon warns of risk of Chinese submarines in the Arctic

China’s growing involvement and interest in the Arctic could pave the way for a strengthened military presence in the region, including the deployment of submarines to act as deterrents against nuclear attack, the Pentagon said in a report released on Thursday.
May 06, 2019

Navy is building a new major depot for Arctic operations

A military logistics center in Arkhangelsk is to handle millions of tons of goods destined troops and bases across the Arctic.
May 02, 2019

Here comes a nuclear submarine longer than the world has ever seen

Built for special missions, “Belgorod” can carry deep-sea equipment like nuclear reactors to the Arctic seabed, as well as deploying the Poseidon second nuclear strike drone.
April 23, 2019

Along Russia’s border to Norway, a big show of military force

Sounds of explosion rocked through the borderlands as 1,000 forces and more than 340 military vehicles, tanks and aircraft engaged in military training.
April 23, 2019

Norway rearms Finnmark for new security landscape

The army is well underway with establishing a new Cavalry Battalion, Home Guard and a Ranger Company in Norway's northernmost region bordering Russia’s heavy militarized Kola Peninsula.
April 17, 2019

Russia claims to have demonstrated complex exercise outside Norway

The Northern Fleet’s press service says the largest missile cruisers, long-range bombers, anti-submarine aircraft, helicopters and fighter jets took part in an exercise in the Norwegian Sea.
April 11, 2019

Russia announces missile drill outside Norwegian air base

Expert says such missile launch may be intended to send a signal to NATO that Russia is capable of expanding its bastion defence beyond the Barents Sea.
April 10, 2019

Two nuclear warheads still on Arctic seabed 30 years after Komsomolets disaster

41 crew members died when the submarine sank on April 7th 1989. Norwegian and Russian researchers will this summer send down an ROV to measure possible radioactive leakages from the wreak.
April 06, 2019

Video: Russian bombers outside Norway for second time in a week

A pair of Tu-160 strategic bombers made 13-hours flight over the Barents-, Norwegian- and North Seas.
April 04, 2019

Russian sub launched cruise missile without leaving port

"Severodvinsk" is Russia's most advanced submarine and is based less than 60 km from the border to Norway.
April 03, 2019

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