Norway Long-Range Maritime Surveillance Drones

Norway planned to buy long-range drones for maritime surveillance in the High North, to be based at Andøya air station, under the long-term defence plan presented in April 2024. The Ministry of Defence asked US authorities about options in 2024, General Atomics offered the MQ-9B SeaGuardian and Northrop Grumman pitched the MQ-4C Triton, and in 2025 the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency supported a concept selection study with the Air Force. In March 2026 the government proposed in Prop. 68 S not to buy national long-range surveillance drones, and the Storting's foreign affairs and defence committee unanimously endorsed this in June 2026. Part of the intended effect is to come from cooperation with the United Kingdom on long-range drones and from space-based solutions.