Arctic Recon

Arctic Recon is a downloadable Special Ops Mission Mode challenge in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 as part of Content Pack 6. It is available for Call of Duty ELITE subscribers on the Xbox 360 as of June 19, 2012.

Baseplate gives the orders to plants beacons on a ship, Kuvalda, to guide missiles which will destroy the ship. Players control a Recon Drone that has a mounted minigun and thermal vision that is used to designate places where beacons must be placed beforehand. After which, they are extracted via helicopter before the missiles blow up the ship.

Achievements
Stay Frosty (15 ) - Complete the "Arctic Recon" Special Ops mission on any difficulty

Sub Zero (25 ) - Complete the "Arctic Recon" Special Ops mission on Veteran difficulty

Dr0n3d (35 ) - Complete the "Arctic Recon" Special Ops mission in under 3:30

Trivia

 * The Recon Drone's crosshairs are that of the RPG-7 instead of its multiplayer standard.
 * Baseplate mentions that the Kuvalda is a Slava-class Cruiser, a ship also seen in "Hunter Killer".
 * This is the only time in Modern Warfare 3 where the unscoped M14 EBR can be used (not to be confused with the MK14 assault rifle seen in multiplayer), similarly to the Breach & Clear Special Ops mission from Modern Warfare 2.
 * Despite being unscoped, the M14 EBR in this mission has no aim assist or auto aim, probably due to the fact that it is classified as a sniper rifle.