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When a training missile exploded in the silo, Captain Igor Grishkov immediately dived his enormous Typhoon submarine to flush away burning rocket fuel before the other nuclear weapon-tipped missiles were set on fire.
February 03, 2018
The fleet of NH90s should instead serve the country’s frigates and help hunt down enemy submarines, a new defense report says.
February 02, 2018
Journalists could be contacted by intelligence officers and used to covertly impact public debate and political decisions, according to the Police Security Service (PST).
January 31, 2018
NATO and Russia’s cat-and-mouse game in the Norwegian and Barents Seas gives a sharp increase in allied port-calls, especially in northern Norway.
January 27, 2018
They are quick and powerful, and are made for high pace through Arctic wilderness. Almost 100 new snowmobiles are delivered to Norwegian border guards as the local garrison beefs up capacities.
January 24, 2018
Sevmash steps up modernization of capacities at its naval yard in Severodvinsk, northern Russia.
January 22, 2018
The Zvezdochka yard outside Arkhangelsk, northern Russia, demands another 6.8 billion ruble for its comprehensive modernization of nuclear submarine «Podmoskovye». The ministry responds with a 3.7 billion suit against the yard.
January 18, 2018
Extreme wind conditions hindered Norway to scramble F-16s.
January 15, 2018
The Yunarmiya now includes more than 1,600 youngsters from the Murmansk region. Many of them live in closed Navy towns.
January 09, 2018
No country has ever carried out such extensive projects in the high north, the Russian military leader says in a recap of 2017.
January 03, 2018
The «Ilya Muromets» is the Northern Fleet’s first new icebreaker in 45 years.
January 02, 2018
New and upgraded air bases allow the Northern Fleet to extend the scope of its Arctic flights.
January 02, 2018
Russia’s 36-years old Typhoon submarine «Dmitry Donskoy» crushes the sea ice in the White Sea.
December 28, 2017
After postponed several times, a ejection test of the Sarmat (SS-X-30) took place at Plesetsk on Wednesday.
December 28, 2017
«If we want to lead the way, if we want to win, we must be the best,» the President says.
December 20, 2017
Russian security service officers are celebrating a century of counter-intelligence, and boast that a growing number foreign agents are being hooked. This month, they put retired Norwegian border inspector Frode Berg behind bars.
December 20, 2017
Former border inspector on Norway's border to Russia, now pensioner, Frode Berg is detained by FSB in Moscow.
December 19, 2017
A majority of Finns still believe that Finland should remain outside the NATO military alliance, according to the latest Yle-commissioned poll.
December 19, 2017
A pair of Tu-22M3 long-range bombers is back at the air base in Olenegorsk after dozens of combat missions in Syria.
December 13, 2017
Cost-efficient and practical as the Nordic countries interact more and more.
December 01, 2017
The same level of intensity is planned for 2018, Head Commander Nikolay Yevmenov says.
November 30, 2017
The 140 hectare facility will provide support for the increasingly complex Navy engagement in Arctic waters.
November 30, 2017
A new frigate and a big landing vessel are about to join the ranks of Russia’s most powerful fleet after more than a decade of construction and testing.
November 27, 2017
Northern Fleet soldiers put on gas masks in this week's counter-terrorism exercise.
November 13, 2017
50 years after the Northern Fleet got its first ballistic missile submarine, Sevmash yard in Severodvinsk floats out its latest pride. «Knyaz Vladimir» will be Russia’s most advanced ballistic missile submarine.
November 06, 2017

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