Norwegian police and military officials said one person has been killed when a tank collided with a car on a county road during a major military exercise in central Norway, the Associated Press reports. The crash happened Monday, March 7, in Nord Troendelag county, where the Cold Response exercise is taking place with 15,000 soldiers […]

Norway shares a 120-mile land border with Russia. And at the same time a heavily-armed Russian convey draws ever closer to eastern Ukraine — raising the possibility of another escalation in the Ukraine’s already-restive east — the U.S. Marine Corps is re-supplying a vital pre-positioning site in central Norway. The Norwegian pre-positioning program began in 1981, […]

NHIndustries (NHI) has delivered the sixth NH90 helicopter to the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA), it announced on 4 February. The delivery marks the end of the first phase of the Norwegian programme, which will see 14 NH90 helicopters delivered in total. The fleet of six delivered NH90s will begin operations with the Norwegian Coast […]

Supacat has inked a £23 million contract with the Norwegian Defence Logistic Organisation (NDLO) for the supply of HMT Extenda high mobility vehicles, the company announced on 6 May. The delivery of the first ‘pre-series’ vehicle is scheduled for late 2016. It will be followed by the delivery of the full fleet from 2017 to […]

Norway would spend $477 million on building the nation’s first anti-aircraft battery and modernizing its squadron of German Leopard 2 tanks amongst other defense projects,” Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide was quoted as saying on 29 April 2015. According to the local media, the country’s defense experts have been recently calling for “more troops and […]