Posted on 01/02/2022 7:00:54 PM PST by texas booster
Norway' Minister of Defense, Frank Bakke-Jensen, on Friday signed an agreement with the United States allowing for, among other things, construction of hangar and fuel supply infrastructure for U.S. Navy P-8A maritime patrol aircraft at Evenes airport and the nearby Ramsund naval station.
“This agreement will strengthen the United States and NATO’s possibilities to defend Norway,” said Minister of Defense, Frank Bakke-Jensen in a phone interview with the Barents Observer.
The new deal widens the opening for transatlantic military cooperation further. At Evenes airport, inside the Arctic Circle, new infrastructure will be built and paid by the United States, aimed at serving U.S. and other NATO maritime patrol aircraft operating over the strategically important Norwegian Sea.
In recent years, Russian Northern Fleet submarines have both sailed more and enlarged patrol areas outside Norway’s northern coast. New, improved, quieter subs of the Yasen class, with cruise missiles that can strike farther, worry the US and its NATO allies.
Keeping track of the submarines requires sub-hunting aircraft capabilities. With first delivery expected in 2022, Norway will get five new P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft currently under construction by Boeing.
However, the Russian fleet of nuclear submarines are growing substantially. Currently, 15 subs are at different stages of readiness at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk.
“Increased Russian sub activity requires more surveillance capabilities from our side,” Defense Minister Bakke-Jensen said.
“The new agreement is expending already existing Norwegian-American cooperation,” he said.
Bodø Air Base is south of Evenes Airport roughly 100 miles.
My first thought as well.
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Since both of us thought of it we must mot be qualified to waste money.
Russia is a country of atheist leaders.
You are wrong. Putin has been actively rebuilding churches.
It's amazing that people will support the most anti-U.S., anti-Christian leaders, just because the media tells them to.
Whatever. Putin has been standing up to the globalists and the homo agenda and has been rebuilding and praising Christian Orthodox churches. You might be a Romney/Bush globalist trying to foment continued cold war for the MIC. China is the enemy you seek. Not Putin.
Your favorite president, GW Bush went out of his way to praise and defend the “religion of peace” after we were just attacked.
Wow, you really are duped my the media. Your idol, Putin, is allied with China against the U.S. And Romney, Bush, Ted Kennedy, and Obama supported Putin. At least I know which side you’ll be on, if Russia attacks the U.S.
If Putin rebuilds a church, it’s like Egyptians renovating a Pyramid. They don’t actually follow that religion, they are just restoring monuments in their country.
He needs to make them an offer they can’t refuse.
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