France intends to leave nothing to chance in its preparations to ensure the security of the Games with the help of anti-drone units.
France intends to leave nothing to chance in its preparations to ensure the security of the Games with the help of anti-drone units.
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Security is the hottest topic at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and France It is proposed not to leave anything to chance in its preparations to ensure the security of the Games with the help of anti-drone units.
The Villacoublay military base, on the outskirts of Paris, will house an anti-drone coordination center in which police, gendarmes and soldiers will work to contain the threat posed by drones.
“Drones can be used to carry out a protest or with terrorist intent,” he told reporters. General Arnaud Bourguignon, general officer in charge of air and anti-drone protection for the Games. “We saw that it was easy to use a drone for other purposes and turn it into a weapon.”
Agents will monitor air traffic during the Olympic Games and they will be able to identify the drones, either with radars or with images sent by agents on the ground at the Olympic venues.
Some of the drones will be identified as “friendly”, while others will be neutralized.
Agents will use one of 15 heavy anti-drone units, which have radar, cameras and a jamming antenna and can neutralize a drone from kilometers away.
Anti-drone rifles, which scramble a drone’s radio signal or shoot it down with lasers, will also be at their disposal, but not all drones will need to be scrambled.
“Some drones are used by the media, but also to referee some events, so we cannot ban them completely,” he said. Bourguignon.
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