“There are still a few details to iron out but we are ready.
» General Arnaud Bourguignon, in charge of the fight against drones (LAD) for the Olympic Games, is confident, four months before the event: “
I am reassured that everyone understands the mission
,” he says.
Organized at the beginning of March at the Villacoublay air base, the Coubertin LAD exercise made it possible to test on a full scale the systems which will be deployed during the Olympic Games to secure the airspace around the sites and to verify good interministerial coordination.
If the air force, accustomed to securing air bubbles, has its own expertise, Games security will also involve internal security forces.
The Coubertin LAD exercise made it possible to test
the “integration
” of the different protection systems, within a common “
shared air situation
” (SAP) platform.
“
SAP makes it possible to collate all the information and share it with all those involved in the field
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