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Thanks to their sophisticated radars, the Awacs planes of NATO manage to locate those of the Russians and are able to intercept them if they were to cross the Polish border.
NATO’s Awacs planes have radars 9 meters in diameter. As close as possible to the Ukrainian border, they deal with intelligence. On board, a dozen soldiers of different nationalities, who monitor the regular alerts. “We have just detected, in Belarus, a Russian-made device. So, without further details at this time”, explains one of the heads of the mission, who is French. For him, it may be a Russian troop, positioned in Belarus, which would return home.
Surveillance operators assess the speed, altitude and precise nature of the aircraft spotted. “It is a device that does not transmit the usual signals, which may be an indication that it is a fighter plane”, says another. NATO fighter planes are also positioned over Poland. “If the Russians cross the border, we can use our fighters to intercept this kind of plane“, says a soldier.