Tag: defense

Norway hesitates over Iran response

The Norwegian government is still mulling over a request from the US for a military "contribution" towards boosting security in the waters off Iran....

Norway unlikely to meet NATO goals

It took a complaint from NATO's Norwegian chief Jens Stoltenberg to spur Norway's defense ministry into action this week. It finally announced a bigger...

Ministry confirms frigate scrapping

It's official: Norway's badly damaged frigate KNM Helge Ingstad won't be repaired. The defense ministry has finally determined that it will be better to...

Norway remembers its D-Day heroes

Prime Minister Erna Solberg was among allied government leaders invited to D-Day memorials in Portsmouth this week, because of the role exiled Nowegians played...

Police, military tied to weapon scandal

Norwegian police have revealed a fairly brisk illegal weapons trade, after finding and seizing stashes of more than 2,000 firearms believed to stem from...

Once-proud frigate set to be scrapped

It will cost more to repair the ill-fated frigate KNM Helge Ingstad than to build a new one, Norwegian defense officials have confirmed. Both...

Norway celebrates veterans, freedom

It was perhaps ironic that a large German cruiseship would sail into Oslo early Wednesday morning, just as an historic US military vessel was...

Spy chief candid to the bitter end

In his unusual but typically candid manner, Lt General Kjell Grandhagen told newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) last December that he didn't know how long...

Norwegian defense ‘has been weakened’

Only their smiles were perhaps surprising when Norway's defense chief, Admiral Haakon Bruun-Hanssen, presented his annual report to Defense Minister Frank Bakke-Jensen this week....

Probe launched into frigate’s salvage

The Norwegian Navy's ill-fated frigate KNM Helge Ingstad was refloated this week, just six weeks after the sunken vessel was raised from the waters...
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