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At least one of Russia’s commercially flagged tankers has appeared armed with heavy machine guns. The weapons fit is likely mainly intended to provide close-in protection against naval drone attacks but is also evidence of increasingly bold measures taken by Moscow to ensure that military bases in its strategically important Kaliningrad exclave continues to be supported.

Heavy Machine Guns Appear On Key Russian Commercial Tanker In Baltic

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jun 29, 2026

The French Air and Space Force confirmed that its Rafales, currently deployed in neighboring Lithuania, were scrambled in response to the drone incursion. The drone was identified before one of the fighters shot it down over an uninhabited area.

Video Captures Rafale Fighter’s Drone Kill Over Baltic

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jun 8, 2026

Ukrainian drones targeted the Kronstadt naval base and the Steregushchy class corvette Boiky. Damage assessments were not fully clear in initial reporting.

Russia’s Baltic Fleet Successfully Attacked By Ukrainian Drones

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jun 3, 2026

Naval Group: We are very honoured by the choice of the Swedish Ministry of Defence to select the #FDI to provide the Royal Swedish Navy with 4 latest-generation 1st rank frigates.

Sweden Chooses Unusual French Design For Its New Frigates

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on May 19, 2026

A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon flies a routine mission over the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, May 31, 2025. Equipped with state-of-the-art radars, sensors and an air-to-air refueling capability, the P-8A is scheduled to receive periodic future enhancements to keep pace with the submarine warfare threat.

Danish P-8 Sale Set To Boost Poseidon’s Northern Footprint

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 2, 2026

Finland seized the Fitburg, a cargo vessel accused of damaging an undersea telecom cable linking FInland and Estonia

First Ship Seized For Undersea Cable Cutting Since NATO’s Baltic Sentry Began

By Howard Altman

Posted on Dec 31, 2025

NATO member Lithuania today authorized the shooting down of balloons that cross the border from Russia’s ally Belarus, after as many as 66 balloons were spotted by Lithuanian radar overnight. The Lithuanian government has described the balloon incursion as a “hybrid attack” and has closed its border with Belarus — temporarily, to start with.

Lithuania Will Shoot Down Balloons Crossing Border From Belarus After Dozens Detected Overnight

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 27, 2025

Germany plans to buy Joint Strike Missile (JSM) cruise missiles from Norway, to arm its forthcoming fleet of F-35A stealth fighters. While these jets were primarily chosen as launch platforms for U.S.-owned nuclear gravity bombs, under a long-standing NATO agreement, Germany is increasingly viewing the F-35A as part of an expanding conventional long-range strike arsenal.

German F-35s Will Be Armed With Stealthy Joint Strike Missiles

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jun 5, 2025

The Marines have been sent to Finland to help protect undersea cables.

Drone-Equipped U.S. Marines Now Helping Protect Baltic Sea Submarine Cables

By Howard Altman

Updated on Feb 21, 2025

NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) has confirmed to TWZ that four Dutch F-35A stealth fighters are now also participating in Baltic Sentry, a mission intended, among other things, to ensure the security of critical undersea infrastructure in the region. The jets were already in the region as part of the alliance’s Baltic Air Policing mission.

F-35s Now Helping Prevent Baltic Seafloor Cable Sabotage

By Thomas Newdick, Howard Altman

Updated on Jan 22, 2025

In the coming weeks, drone boats will be plying the waters of the Baltic Sea helping to detect and deter undersea cable sabotage as part of Baltic Sentry.

Drone Boats Being Rushed To Help Prevent Baltic Seafloor Cable Sabotage

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jan 17, 2025

A French Navy Atlantique 2 maritime patrol aircraft was illuminated by the fire-control radar of a Russian long-range air defense system, while flying over the Baltic Sea earlier this week, according to France’s Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu.

France Decries Russian S-400 Radar Locking Onto Its Maritime Patrol Aircraft Over Baltic Sea

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 17, 2025

NATO nations boosting naval presence and AI monitoring in response to undersea cable cuts.

NATO Boosting Naval Presence And AI Monitoring In Baltic Sea After Undersea Cables Cut

By Howard Altman

Updated on Jan 7, 2025

A Russian-connected oil tanker suspected of severing the Estlink 2 power cable running under the Baltic Sea between Finland and Estonia was reportedly found to be packed with spy equipment.

Russian-Linked Oil Tanker Suspected Of Sabotage Was Brimming With Spy Equipment: Report

By Howard Altman

Updated on Dec 27, 2024

The Chinese ship, the bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 (R) is anchored and being monitored by a Danish naval patrol vessels in the sea of Kattegat, near the City og Granaa in Jutland, Denmark, on November 20, 2024. Denmark's navy said on November 20, 2024 it was shadowing a Chinese cargo vessel in the Baltic Sea, a day after Finland and Sweden opened investigations into suspected sabotage of two severed undersea telecoms cables. "The Danish Defence can confirm that we are present in the area near the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3," the military wrote in an email to AFP, adding that it would make no further comment for the time-being.

Danish Navy Shadows Chinese Cargo Ship After Baltic Sea Cable Damage

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 20, 2024

29 November 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Sassnitz: A fiber optic cable is pulled ashore from the cable-laying ship "Pleijel" at the entrance to the port of Sassnitz. After several weather-related delays, an 800-kilometre-long undersea cable from Scandinavia landed in Sassnitz on the island of Rügen on Wednesday. the yellow cable, which is about the thickness of a broomstick, will soon be connected to the GlobalConnect fiber optic network. Including land and sea routes, the cable for the digital high-speed highway is a total of 2600 kilometers long, as GlobalConnect announced. Work began in fall 2021.

Sabotage Claims Swirl Around Severed Baltic Sea Cable Incidents

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 19, 2024