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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.
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Sabotage Claims Swirl Around Severed Baltic Sea Cable Incidents

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 19, 2024

Russian 747 Cargo Plane Made A Highly Peculiar Roundabout Flight Across Finland
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Russian 747 Cargo Plane Made A Highly Peculiar Roundabout Flight Across Finland

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 18, 2022

Anonymous F-35 Customer Is Getting A New Variant Of The Stealth Jet
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Anonymous F-35 Customer Is Getting A New Variant Of The Stealth Jet

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 29, 2021

Here’s How Finland Justified Its Decision To Buy 64 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters
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Here’s How Finland Justified Its Decision To Buy 64 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Dec 10, 2021

Finland Chooses F-35 As Its Next Fighter: Report
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Finland Chooses F-35 As Its Next Fighter: Report

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Dec 6, 2021

Watch This Finnish Leopard 2 Tank Roll Over Troops During “Tank Terror” Training
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Watch This Finnish Leopard 2 Tank Roll Over Troops During “Tank Terror” Training

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Oct 23, 2020

Here’s The Full List Of Kit Offered To Finland If It Chooses F-35 Or Super Hornet
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Here’s The Full List Of Kit Offered To Finland If It Chooses F-35 Or Super Hornet

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 9, 2020

More Than Half Of Finland’s F-18 Hornets Take Part In An “Elephant Walk” Readiness Drill
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More Than Half Of Finland’s F-18 Hornets Take Part In An “Elephant Walk” Readiness Drill

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 9, 2020

Rumors of Covert Russian Ops Swirl After Finland’s Police Raid Bond-Esque Private Island
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Rumors of Covert Russian Ops Swirl After Finland’s Police Raid Bond-Esque Private Island

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Nov 1, 2018

NATO Unfazed By Russia Plans To Fire Missiles Near Its Massive Exercise Off Norway (Updated)
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NATO Unfazed By Russia Plans To Fire Missiles Near Its Massive Exercise Off Norway (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Oct 31, 2018

U.S. Carrier Enters Arctic Circle For The First Time in 28 Years As New Cold War Heats Up
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U.S. Carrier Enters Arctic Circle For The First Time in 28 Years As New Cold War Heats Up

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Oct 22, 2018

Russia Executes Mock Special Operations Raid On Remote Island Off Finland
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Russia Executes Mock Special Operations Raid On Remote Island Off Finland

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 11, 2018

Finland’s Getting Ice-Breaking Missile Corvettes With Serious Air Defense Abilities
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Finland’s Getting Ice-Breaking Missile Corvettes With Serious Air Defense Abilities

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Trump Says Finland Is Buying New F/A-18 Hornets. They’re Not.
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Trump Says Finland Is Buying New F/A-18 Hornets. They’re Not.

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 29, 2019

Missile Laden Su-27 Gets Between NATO F-16 And Russian Defense Minister’s Jet
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Missile Laden Su-27 Gets Between NATO F-16 And Russian Defense Minister’s Jet

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 29, 2019

Message From Moscow: Armed Russian Su-27s Violated Finnish Airspace Twice In One Day
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Message From Moscow: Armed Russian Su-27s Violated Finnish Airspace Twice In One Day

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Oct 8, 2016