#HighNorth @samferdselsdep.bsky.social @kdd.regjeringen.no

The #US #submarine USS Oregon docked at the Port of Grøtsund just outside #Tromsø last week. “Our port visit reflects the enduring strength of the relationship between the United States and Norway,” says Captain David Beam.

#HighNorth @forsvaret.bsky.social

The Norwegian government has not allocated funds in next year's national budget to strengthen the #hospital in #Narvik, #NorthernNorway, which is tasked with supporting #military #preparedness needs. "Quite incomprehensible," says chair of the county government in Nordland.

#HighNorth

I am obliged to sound (a ludic) #GIUK-NGap klaxon... Operation Northern Sentinel - maritime surveillance & sea control! #highnorth

The Norwegian government wants to strengthen the new Arctic Resilience Centre with NOK 15 million in next year’s national budget. It also proposes to allocate NOK 12 million to municipal preparedness in Finnmark, Northern Norway.

#preparedness #HighNorth #Arctic @jd.regjeringen.no

The #Norwegian government proposes allocating NOK 191,7 billion to the #defence sector in the 2027 national budget. In Northern Norway, there are i.a. plans for investments in property, buildings, and facilities of NOK 3,65 billion.

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"South Korea is seeking a role in the Arctic maritime economy as a builder of specialized vessels, an operator of them &, increasingly, a potential logistics hub connecting Asian trade with the Northern Sea Route..." #busanconnection #polartriad #highnorth bsky.app/profile/vess...

I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... "The Cold War-era emphasis on defending the Northern Gap (between Greenland, Iceland, & the UK) from Russian naval incursions should be superseded by concentrating on the ‘Bear Gap’ between Northern Norway & the Svalbard archipelago..." #highnorth

The emerging #busanconnection! And here's where the PanStar Acro currently is: through the Bering Strait & just crossing the Gulf of Anadyr, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug... #highnorth #polartriad

I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... Faroe Islands ..."sits in the centre of the GIUK Gap, one of NATO & JEF’s most important maritime approaches as the North Atlantic gateway for Russian ships sailing to & from the Arctic..." #highnorth #lionprotector www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2026/oc...

I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... The Last Opaque Water. "The waters from the Bear Gap to the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom Gap remain the transatlantic hinge...", & "It is also the one theater where transparency does not yet hold..." #highnorth www.thecipherbrief.com/nato-cant-co...

"As demonstrated by the confrontation this April, undersea competition between Russia & NATO in the Arctic is intensifying, & new Russian weapons are being brought to bear...": interesting analysis on Olenya Guba & the infrastructure supporting GUGI... #highnorth

I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... Danish SeaGuardian long-range Arctic & North Atlantic surveillance capability by 2028... #highnorth

I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... #highnorth

I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... “The North Atlantic is once again a theatre of strategic competition..." #highnorth #atlanticbastion en.highnorthnews.com/politics/his...

I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... "the entire regional security architecture is changing..." #westernarctic #highnorth

A new route to the #IndoPacific — through the #Arctic.

The first stage of #PEGASE26 has taken #French #Rafale #fighters, #A330 #MRTT #tankers and #A400M #airlifters through the #HighNorth, opening a new route towards the Indo-Pacific.

Why has #France chosen it? Read more:

"The strategic significance is therefore greater than the individual flight paths. NATO is building a distributed surveillance architecture in which different aircraft can cover complementary parts of the same battlespace, from the High North to the Baltic Sea..." #highnorth

On Saturday evening, the first successful #satellite #launch from mainland Europe was completed from #Andøya Spaceport in #NorthernNorway.

#HighNorth #Arctic @nfd.regjeringen.no

Orbit for Isar "Onward and Upward"... #andoya #highnorth