A surprise in the form of Triton UAV is waiting for Russia: what a new type drone is capable of

In particular, the drone made a maneuver called "lateral sliding", when the aircraft moves so that the counter flow of air runs on the plane not in front, but on the side, at an angle to the plane of its symmetry. In view of all, the tests were successful, as the US Navy decided to increase the average duration of future MQ-4C Triton tests to five hours in one departure.

According to the leading MQ-4C Triton Amanda Margie, a test engineer, the American developers want to lift restrictions on flights in the event of a risk of glaciation, but at first they intend to make sure that in such conditions drones retain sufficient control and stability. MQ-4C Triton is an autonomous drone created by Northrop Grumman based on RQ-4B Global Hawk. It is designed for intelligence with the help of advanced sea sensors.

Manages a drone of five people: UAV operator, tactical coordinator, two useful load operators, communication coordinator. On January 15, the political observer Elizabeth Gosselin-Malo in her article in Defense News wrote that the United States was planning to become fixed in the Arctic with the help of drones as Russia was busy with war in Ukraine.

According to the American Security Project, in 2020, the number of Russian military bases in operation or modernized in the Arctic was at least 16, 12 of which are 12 aircraft, three submarines and one air intelligence base. Experts believe that Russians have long retained a military advantage in the Arctic region due to their icebreakers and UAVs capable of working in cold conditions.

For example, in 2018, Kalashnikov concern presented a series of Zala Arctic drones, and in 2019 in Russia, they declared another drone capable of flying in the Arctic for up to four days. According to Yussi Kangasoya, a specialist in the CP of the Arctic Drone Labs Central Center in Finland, the Russians also use submarine drones in Arctic waters.

He is convinced that the state of Russian troops in Ukraine gives the West a great opportunity not only to catch up with the Russian Federation, but also to take leadership positions in the Arctic region with the help of unmanned technologies.

As noted in the article, many of the US drones are losing communication during work above the 77th northern parallel, which, according to the head of the northern command of the US Armed Forces, General Glenn Vanchir, reduces the competitiveness of the US army in the Arctic. In addition, Americans do not have developed infrastructure to maintain the work of such drones on a permanent basis. In early January, it was written that the US is developing supersonic Revenant.