Tag: Frontex Aerial Surveillance Service
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Engine failure and crash: Frontex drones in Malta and Greece grounded
A drone flying on behalf of Frontext has blocked the runway of Malta’s international airport after a malfunction. In August, a similar model had crashed into the sea off Crete. The coastguard plans to salvage the wreckage. A Frontex drone…
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Europe’s drone agency: Frontex paves the way for military drones in domestic airspace
Large drones in Europe are only allowed to fly in restricted airspaces, and until now this has also applied to the military. Operations by the EU border agency Frontex are changing that. With maritime drones, a new dimension of militarisation…
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Frontex pays another €84 million for aerial surveillance
The border agency spends one-sixth of its budget on flights at the EU’s external borders. With the service, the Frontex director makes himself independent of the governments of the member states. A contract for helicopter operations does not materialise for…
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Frontex closes surveillance gaps in the air and in space
High-flying drones are to reconnoitre the EU’s external borders from the stratosphere, a static zeppelin is already observing close to the ground. With interception systems in space, the EU border agency wants to locate and possibly tap satellite telephones in…