The Hawaii Times - According to the Ministry of Defense is now preparing a technical agreement that will specify any overflights. "We are part of NATO's Allied drones protect us. Flyovers will be possible under specific conditions, like in Germany and other countries, "he told Pravo Defence Minister Martin Stropnický (YES). His office also confirmed that the Czech Republic could operate over the largest US drones.
"The government agrees with crossing over and transporting the armed forces of NATO member states, including overflights of unmanned aircraft in terms of deactivated weapons and reconnaissance systems," says the government material that is available now.
"It is believed that high over the Czech Republic should be flying Global Hawk carrying out tasks in favor of NATO," he told Pravo Ministry spokesman Jan Pejsek.
Global Hawk is a military UAV operating under all conditions. Almost in real time can provide imagery of large geographic areas at high resolution. During a reconnaissance mission can map up to 100,000 square kilometers of terrain a day.
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Machines have a span of 40 meters, they are 15 meters long and five meters high. Flying at an altitude up to 20,000 meters in the air lasts record 32 hours and can fly almost 23,000 kilometers. For comparison - the government Airbus fleet will fly only eight thousand kilometers.
Global Hawk aircraft are stationed at the Italian base at Sigonella in Sicily, where it flies, for example, to monitor the territory of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
According to the German magazine Der Spiegel last year, the Americans have agreed that due to the action near the Russian border to the aircraft Global Hawk to fly three to five times a month over German territory. But here it was not easy to negotiate, because the US leadership had promised that Germany will take over the aircraft off all radars and sensors that could monitor the situation on the ground. Similarly worded agreement and the Czech Republic.
What do Czech Air Traffic Control?
US Army request for permission for overflights unmanned machines whose size is comparable with transport aircraft, employs Czech authorities since the beginning of the year.
They met several times negotiating teams of the Ministry of Defence, Transport and Interior, and tried to find a way to allow overflights drones, because it does Czech Air Traffic Control no experience. Finally we found a solution and overflight of US aircraft judged according to the same laws as in the case of Czech operators drone.
According to the spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Vitezslav nice walks near the drones are still controlled for years, even if the pilot does not sit on the board, but thousands of kilometers away on a military base.
The overflights by him will not be a problem because the spy drones flying at an altitude of 20 kilometers above the ground. He added that the US military will have before every flight the CAA route and time over. "Each flight will have a flight plan and air traffic management will know about it - as any aircraft that enters our flight operations," said Nice.
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