You have to meander about ten minutes in the heights of Lyon to reach the air base 942. It is 10 am, and the sun is slowly rising in the sky.
Apart from the whistling of the wind on the car, no noise can be distinguished.
No roar of engines, no spinning propellers.
Surprising, approaching an Air and Space Force base.
“The small peculiarity of this base is that it has no plane
, smiles our guide.
We are in the nerve center of operations.
This is where the air defense of France happens.
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It is in this ultra-secure place that two weeks ago, an operation was coordinated to escort a "phantom plane" over France.
After being warned that a Cessna 551 had just entered the national territory without giving any sign of life, the national air operations center (CNOA) sent two Rafales to contact the pilot.
And to everyone's surprise, no one was visible in the cockpit...
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