Norway confirms ‘Burevestnik’ launch from Novaya Zemlya as debate over Russia’s nuclear-powered cruise missile intensifies

Norway confirms ‘Burevestnik’ launch from Novaya Zemlya as debate over Russia’s nuclear-powered cruise missile intensifies

Norway’s military intelligence service has confirmed that Russia’s most recent test of its nuclear-powered, nuclear-capable cruise missile, 9M730 Burevestnik—NATO reporting name SSC-X-9 “Skyfall”—was launched from the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic. “We can confirm that Russia has conducted a…

‘Russian Secrets’: Western technology used to build Russia’s Arctic seabed surveillance

‘Russian Secrets’: Western technology used to build Russia’s Arctic seabed surveillance

An international consortium of news organisations has published detailed findings on a covert Russian programme, codenamed “Harmony”, that has installed an undersea surveillance system across the Barents Sea and adjacent Arctic waters to protect Russia’s nuclear submarine fleet. The reporting…