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The Norwegian Ministry of Defence programme for financing research on security and defence policy

Support is given to research on topics that are relevant for the MoD and the Norwegian Armed Forces.

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The Defence Budget 1999. Summary

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The long term defence plan for 2002-2005 - Short version (text)

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The Combat Aircraft Blog - the Official Blog of the Norwegian F-35 Program Office

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New Submarines - status per 1 February 2018

The Norwegian Submarine Project is on track. Germany and Norway are working closely together on procuring identical submarines, and the joint process towards the submarine supplier tkMS is well under way.

Facts regarding Norway and F-35

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Unified Effort - Expert Commision on Norwegian Security and Defence Policy

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NATO agrees to provide extensive support to Ukraine

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Assembly of battle tanks in Norway

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