FS Marjata (2014)

FS Marjata is a Norwegian purpose-built electronic intelligence collection vessel (ELINT),[1] which was ordered by the parliament in 2010.

The installment of the technical equipment took place from April to November 2015 at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown in Virginia.

In 2019 the NIS denied to confirm Kirkenes as her home port when asked by the Norwegian online newspaper aldrimer.no.

In July 2020 the Norwegian Ministry of Defence confirmed that Harstad, 334 km to the west, is the new official homeport for the intelligence ship.

Over the last few years, the region of eastern Finnmark county, and Kirkenes in particular, has been troubled by Russian jamming of GPS signals.