Russia’s military posture in the Arctic emphasizes air and maritime early warning and defense, highlighted by the reopening of 50 previously closed Soviet-era military posts. This includes the refurbishment of 13 air bases, 10 radar stations, 20 border outposts, and …

Russia’s military activities in the Arctic have in turn led the United States, NATO members, and close U.S. partners such as Sweden and Finland to increase their own regional military capabilities with a commensurate uptick in exercises, …

2024年10月31日 · The Russian leadership fears that a more accessible Arctic will bring along more military activity from NATO and its allies in the European Arctic and above North Pole approaches. It also fears there will be more military presence from the US and Canada in the Pacific Arctic – alongside Chinese inroads in circumpolar governance and presence.

2022年11月16日 · Since 2005, Russia has reopened tens of Arctic Soviet-era military bases, modernised its navy, and developed new hypersonic missiles designed to evade U.S. sensors and defences. Four Arctic...

2024年10月29日 · Russia’s military presence in the Arctic peaked during the Soviet era and new increases to defense spending have expanded operations in the region, though it’s still far below the Cold War ...

2025年1月22日 · Russian nuclear submarines patrol the Arctic seas, while a growing fleet of nuclear-powered ice breakers projects Kremlin power across the region. China and Russia have conducted joint...

2022年12月21日 · Russia has continued expanding its military bases in the Arctic region despite significant losses in its war on Ukraine, according to a new series of satellite images obtained by CNN.

5 天之前 · 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 ...

2025年1月28日 · 1 Michael Paul and Göran Swistek, ‘Russia in the Arctic: development plans, military potential, and conflict prevention’, SWP Research Paper 3 (2022): 11. 2 Elana Wilson-Rowe (ed.), ‘Policy aims and political realities in the Russian North’, Russia and the North (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2009), 1.

Russia’s western Arctic features a great concentration of advanced conventional capabilities for defensive and potentially offensive purposes centered on the Kola Peninsula and serves as home to Russia’s Northern Fleet headquarters, which hosts Russia’s most advanced Arctic land, air, and naval assets, notably including its nuclear arsenal and s...