NATO Trying to Produce Drones That Can Survive the Arctic to Counter Chinese-Russian Collaboration

Elvis Dunderhoff January 31, 2025

Everything is drones these days, and the enemies of the US government are much further along in developing these technologies, while the US focuses on useless wokeness such as triggered trannies and bluepilled niggers.

The last thing the US invented was the internet, decades ago. They can’t invent anything of value, and their military development is a total global joke.

Reuters:

In 2023, Mads Petersen, owner of Greenland-based startup Arctic Unmanned, sat in a car to keep warm while he tested a small drone at minus 43 degrees Celsius (minus 45 degrees Fahrenheit).

The cold soon drained the drone’s power.

“The battery only lasted for three minutes,” he said.

Governments in the world’s far north are seeking to overcome such challenges as the region comes increasingly into the geopolitical spotlight.

Russia and China have stepped up military activity in the Arctic, while NATO states in the region are reporting more acts of sabotage on energy and communications lines. President Donald Trump has recently revived U.S. claims to Greenland.

The conflict in Ukraine, meanwhile, has shown that unmanned aircraft can provide critical intelligence and strike capabilities on the battlefield.

The United States, which sees the Arctic as crucial for territorial defence and its early warning system against nuclear attacks, said in a July strategy document it would focus on unmanned technology to counter Chinese-Russian collaboration there. Russian and Chinese bomber planes flew together off the coast of Alaska in July and their coast guard ships sailed together through the Bering Strait in October.

But drones – whether multicopters or fixed wing models – are vulnerable. Only the largest, long-range models have enough power for anti-icing systems like those used by aircraft. Cold, fog, rain or snow can cause a malfunction or crash.

With countries boosting military spending, a Reuters survey of 14 companies and six defence ministries and armed forces in northern Europe and America shows the industry working at pace to buy or develop drones that can endure icy conditions, and increasing urgency among NATO states to acquire them.

“We are all having to catch up with Ukraine and Russia,” said General Major Lars Lervik, head of the Norwegian Army.

No global data is publicly available on states’ military drone fleets, but Lervik said the war in Ukraine has given Moscow and Kyiv valuable experience of drone technology that NATO countries lack.

Russia, whose military began building up a drone fleet in the Arctic in 2014, took an early lead in the race to control the Northern Sea Route, a passage between Europe and Asia along Russia’s northern coast, said James Patton Rogers, a drone expert at Cornell University and a UN and NATO policy adviser.

Russia’s Zala Aero, part of the Kalashnikov Group, already offers drones designed for extreme Arctic conditions and Russia has also said its long-range S-70 Okhotnik combat drone can operate at minus 12 Celsius and will be deployed there.

“We’re moving towards a point where Russia will not only have unarmed surveillance drone systems along the Northern Sea Route, but potentially armed systems that are constantly patrolling those areas as well,” said Rogers.

He said NATO had been slow to devise a coherent response. NATO said it has strengthened its presence in the Arctic and set up a new  Command to keep Atlantic lines free and secure; NATO states are investing in new air and maritime capabilities.

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Weather-resistant models are not the only solution. The U.S. Department of Defense has said it will buy tens of thousands of cheap drones with a kamikaze brief as part of a programme started in 2023 that will focus on the Indo-Pacific. It did not respond to a question on whether it may risk littering the Arctic with drone debris.

“Sometimes it’s actually cheaper to … build something super cheap where we can just have thousands of them, and we don’t care if we lose some,” said Gregory Falco, head of the Aerospace Adversary Lab, a U.S. research centre that designs defensive and offensive capabilities for the Department of Defense.

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Finland in 2023 added 2,000 small drones to its army’s fleet of around 250 older ones. These can, according to their French manufacturer Parrot (PARRO.PA), opens new tab, fly in minus 36 degrees Celsius. They have been used in winter exercises in the north, the Finnish army says.

Other countries with territory in the region are drawing up plans to purchase winter-proof drones, budgeting tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.

Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command, which is responsible for security in and around Greenland, does not have any drones. Copenhagen last year set aside 2.7 billion Danish crowns ($381 million) for two long-range models to operate in the Arctic and this week said it would buy two further drones. The country has also set aside 60 million crowns for smaller models, but gave no further details.

Canada is buying 24 winter-capable medium-sized drones and 40 small ones for its navy, the Canadian Armed Forces said in an email. The forces currently operate around 150 older small and medium-sized drones.

Soldiers are basically useless now. That might benefit the US, since all their soldiers are bluepilled niggers and woke trannies.

But this is the age of drones, and the US can’t figure that out, because they are so woke and bluepilled.

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