BBC – Norway resorts to ship-watching from space Norway’s coastline is huge. The mainland’s rim stretches for more than 2,500km but if you measure it to include all the fjords and nooks and crannies, it comes out at more than 25,000km. Little wonder then that the Scandinavian nation relies heavily on satellites to help it [...]

Defense Technology International – Winter Warfare Cold Response 2010, the multi-national, cold weather military exercise hosted by Norway above the Arctic Circle recently ended. More than 8,500 troops from 14 nations participated in the 16-day exercise in and around northern Norway’s coast and a sliver of neighboring Sweden. Participants included the U.S., Britain, Germany, the [...]

Barents Observer – Norwegian submarines need base in Northern Norway Norwegian submarines are instructed to sail more outside Northern Norway, but lack important support facilities on land, one year after Norway abandoned its Arctic base of Olavsvern.

Defense Technology International – Norway’s futuristic, high-speed, next-generation surface-effect-ship naval craft are no longer being called “MTBs” or “FPBs” but now are officially designated to be “corvettes.”more…

Defense Technology International – The Norwegian Chief of Defense is to present his proposal for the country’s next multi-year defense plan on Monday Nov. 5 — and the Skjold-class program to acquire six super-fast (60-kt.) littoral combat craft is expected to be one of the main casualties.more…

Xinhua – The Norwegian Government is now ready to send four missile/torpedo boats with a crew of 100 to join in UN operations in Lebanese waters.more…

Norway Post – The US elite force Navy Seals has shown considerable interest in the Norwegian high speed patrol boats of the “Skjold” class, built with stealth technology. This makes the vessels difficult to detect by radar. more…

BBC – A Russian trawler which fled with two Norwegian fisheries officials on board after they inspected its catch is nearing Russian territorial waters.more…

BBC – A Norwegian submarine on a UK-organised military exercise has collided with a tanker in the Minch.more…