Tag: military

Defense faces new wave of demands

Norway will be maintaining its troops in Iraq, just as it faces allies' requests for more troops in Mali and patrol vessels in the...

Secret criticism flies around new F35s

Something seems to be wrong with the operating capabilities of Norway's growing fleet of new F35 fighter jets, but no one will specify what...

War hero granted a state funeral

UPDATED: One of Norway's last resistance heroes from World War II will be honoured next week with a funeral to be conducted at state...

Norway’s ‘Jens’ to calm NATO nerves

NEWS ANALYSIS: As nervous and bickering leaders of NATO member countries gathered in London on Tuesday, their own Norwegian leader Jens Stoltenberg was using...

Spy chief waits for probe results

The embattled chief of Norway's military intelligence agency E-tjenesten, Gen Lt Morten Haga Lunde, clearly felt compelled to utter some sort of response as questions...

Many responsible for frigate fiasco

UPDATED: The leader of Norway's state accident investigations board stressed on Friday that its role is not to place blame on who or what...

Norway drops missile defense program

Just weeks before meeting Russian officials in the northern city of Kirkenes, to celebrate how the former Soviet Union liberated Finnmark from Nazi German...

Defense chief calls for major build-up

Norwegian defense chief Haakon Bruun-Hanssen is asking for, and may well receive, an extra NOK 25 billion (USD 3 billion) over the next eight...

Norwegian vessel sails to North Pole

Norway's polar exploration heroes Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen never managed to sail all the the way to the North Pole, but a vessel...

Russia won’t let Hurtigruten sail

Russian authorities have spoiled some exclusive Arctic cruise plans for passengers on board one of the Norwegian shipping line Hurtigruten's newest vessels, the MS...
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