During the Cold War, the Greenland-Iceland-UK (GIUK) Gap formed the principal route by which Soviet submarines menaced America’s East Coast; it remains a crucial outlet for Russian submarines today.

Other Russian defence sources said that the tanks deal could be expanded to include three diesel powered submarines “Kilo” class, combat helicopters Mi-28 and armoured infantry vehicles BMP-3.

The Soviet global submarine threat has declined dramatically, and is no longer the primary threat to the United States. Instead, the focus is on a still evolving threat of regional conflict in ...

heavily monitored during the Cold War for Soviet submarines making their way into the Atlantic and still a gateway for Russia’s Northern Fleet. The US has kept a military presence on Greenland ...

The man who has emerged as Donald Trump's geopolitical dealmaker-in-chief has said that he's developed a "friendship" with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Steve Witkoff was speaking at a Saudi ...

When appropriate he could be indiscreet: once he showed journalists where Soviet submarines were deployed and invited them to say what countermeasures they would take. On another occasion he ...

Beijing has built up the world’s largest navy and wants to reclaim Taiwan – but the West are also fighting for influence in the region ...