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Unmanned airplanes. France: military radars on the hunt for drones flying over nuclear power plants

Paris, France - The army is deploying systems that can detect small flying objects at low altitude

France is deploying military radars to detect the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that have been flying over the country’s nuclear power plants for almost a month and a half (for details see AVIONEWS). The news, given on Monday by a Greenpeace activist on Twitter, has been finally confirmed by the army. So far, details on measure taken to fight the “Mystery flights” had been held in secrecy for safet...

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Rome, Italy, 11/14/2014 18:26
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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