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●ボーイング737ほども翼幅がある巨大な米軍リモコン飛行機
《グロウバル・ホーク》(=全世界を飛び回るタカ)が、昨年の秋に
無許可で英国の《王族専用特別空域》に侵入し、英国航空界にパニックを
起こしていたことが発覚したことが、英国『インディペンデント』紙に
報じられています。(この新聞はたしか、全盛期の『プラウダ』をも
しのぐ世界最大の“党派新聞”ナベジョンイルの『読売新聞』が、反戦的な
姿勢に嫌気が差して提携を打ち切った相手でしたよね。そしてナベジョンイル
の『涜売新聞』は、大英帝国の心理戦争媒体として歴史的悪名を馳せる『タイムズ』
とネンゴロの仲になったわけでした。)
●リモコン巨大機《グロウバル・ホーク》は、「9・11事変」のときに旅客機を
装ってカミカゼ特攻を行なったとも言われていた、噂の新兵器ですね。
英国はナチス・ドイツのV1やV2を食らって「恐れと戦[おのの]き」(Shock & Awe)
をさんざん経験しているのに、またもV1のお化けみたいな飛行機をとばして
英国王室をビビらせるなんて、さながらナチスをこっそり応援していたプレスコット・
ブッシュの孫猿が英国に示した下品なジョークのようです。
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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/story.jsp?story=510483
American spy plane triggers UK air alert
By Francis Elliott, Deputy Political Editor, The Independent
11 April 2004
A US air force remote-controlled spy plane with the wing span of a Boeing
737 entered UK airspace without permission, causing a major alert, The
Independent on Sunday has learnt.
Air-traffic controllers hurriedly granted the Global Hawk drone privileged
airspace reserved for the Royal Family after the incursion was discovered,
according to a senior defence official.
The incident is believed to have occurred during trials last year of the
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in Germany, one of a number of Western nations
keen to buy the spy plane.
A USAF prototype drone flew six sorties over the North Sea during tests in
October and November last year. The Global Hawk, first used to spy on
al-Qa'ida in Afghanistan, is said to have eavesdropped on shipping and radar
stations during missions from a German naval base near Hamburg.
But the drone sparked a serious alert when it illegally strayed into UK
airspace. "We had no idea what this thing was, had to hurriedly identify it
and then give it 'purple airspace'. It was a major embarrassment that has
been hushed up," said a civil servant.
"Purple airspace" is an exclusion zone usually reserved for the Royal Flight
that typically forbids other aircraft from flying either 15 minutes ahead or
30 minutes behind the privileged aircraft.
Gerald Howarth, the Tory defence spokesman, called for ministers to account
for the incursion. "This disturbing report suggests that there is no
effective control over the use of UAVs in civil airspace."
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