More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

A Russian Navy surveillance ship made a nine-day cruise in the vicinity of Japan’s southwest islands approaching as close as 12 nautical miles from the coastline, according to a Monday release by ...

Using Tartus, and the Hmeimim air base ... Russia does not appear to be giving up on the region entirely. The Russian Navy “could support a Mediterranean presence with deployments from Northern ...

Things in the Arctic have never been hotter. In the past year, Russian nuclear submarines have practiced firing cruise missiles near NATO members Norway, Finland and Sweden. That drill followed Arctic ...

Without Russia, which is so large that its northern border makes up 40 percent ... U.S.' current military footprint there. Military bases on this map include naval, air force and ground force ...

Russia and China ... Atlantic used by the Russian Northern Fleet's nuclear submarines, says it will invest in long-range surveillance drones for a planned Arctic base. It also plans to buy weather ...

Norway, which is NATO's monitor for a vast 2 million sq km area of the North Atlantic used by the Russian Northern Fleet's nuclear submarines, says it will invest in long-range surveillance drones for ...

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