By akademiotoelektronik, 10/06/2022

North Korea/Traffic: The Falcon 200 of the Navy was "regularly" intercepted by Chinese fighter planes

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In order to document the violations of the sanctions imposed by resolutions 2375 and 2397 of the United North Korea Security Council for its nuclear program and its activities in the field of ballistic missiles, the French Navy punctually engages in order to monitorIllicit traffic on the high seas under the UNSC ECC [United Nations Security Council Enforcement Coordination Cell].

This is how, from October 15 to November 7, as part of the Aeto mission, a Falcon 200 "Gardian" maritime surveillance plane of the 25F flotilla has been deployed, from French Polynesia, on the Air Base of Nub[Japan].

In detail, Falcon 200 missions are planned according to the information delivered by the UN about ships suspected of engaging in illegal transbords of oil, coal and iron for the benefit of North Korea.

For this task, the Falcon 200, implemented by six people [a pilot, a chief of board, a mechanic on board-or guy-a radio and two radigators] has a pulse compression radar capableto spot the Grois ships in a rauon of 120 to 140 nautical ... and two large portholes for visual identifications and shots.

During its latest deployment in Futenma, the Falcon 200 of the 25F thus carried out ten missions in the China Sea, the equivalent of around forty hours of flight."This deployment has enabled France to once again display its attachment to freedom of navigation in international waters, its commitment to nuclear proliferation and to maintain its autonomous capacity for assessment of situation in a competition area andContestation, ”summed up the staff of the armies [EMA], in his last report of operations.

But what he does not say is some of his missions have obviously indisposed China ... Yet permanent member of the UN Security Council ... but also close ally of North Korea.

Asked about the evolution of the Chinese naval forces during his last hearing in the Senate, Admiral Pierre Vandier, the chief of staff of the French Navy [CEMM] first replied that the Mission Marianne, conducted thespent in the Indo-Pacific region with the nuclear attack submarines [SNA] Emerald and the Batîment of Metropolitan Support and Assistance [BSAM] Seine had made it possible to establish that, "technologically, China was aheadfour years on what we imagined ”.And to insist: "We objectively observe a rise".

Also, continued Admiral Vandier, without saying more, "as an example, our Falcon 200 which, in Japan, participates in the mission of monitoring the embargo against North Korea, is regularly intercepted byChinese mkk fighter planes which are alerted by an anti-aircraft defense frigate positioned in the south of North Korea ”.

Anyway, for the CEMM, "If we project ourselves in 2030, at this rate, it is illusory to believe that we will continue to have the ascendancy on a Chinese navy who would not have developed"Because" it develops in all high -speed areas and that is what worries the Americans at the highest point ".