According to the Northern Fleet, the cruise missiles hit their targets located more than 200 km away.
The missile launch is part of the ongoing Zapad-2025 exercise.
Reportedly, a key target in the exercise was an imagined enemy flotilla in the Barents Sea. The scenario also included the destruction of imagined enemy saboteurs that had infiltrated the archipelago. […]
The Franz Josef Land is Russia’s northernmost archipelago. It is located about 400 km from Norway’s Svalbard archipelago.
In recent years, Russia has significantly strengthened its military presence at the archipelago. The Nagurskoye base today includes a major building complex, an airfield and powerful arms, including the Bastion system, a Monolit-B coastal radar, as well as anti-drone equipment.
In a bid to intimidate Norway and its NATO allies, the Russian war ministry emphasizes that the onyx missiles are «almost undetectable» for moderne air defence systems and capable of ”destroying naval vessels of any size at distances of up to several hundred kilometres.”
Russia has applied the missiles in its war of aggression against Ukraine. Läs artikel