Beja: unmanned aerial vehicles in BA11 until early December.
Detachment UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles, in financial years until the beginning of next month. In 2017 an aircraft crashed in access to BA11.
In the framework of bilateral cooperation between Portugal and Belgium, It is underway, from last day 17 October, Air Base No. 11, in Beja, a detachment of four UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles.
Designated a "Forward Operating Base" of UAVs, a BA11 ensures logistical and operational support for the air activity of the detachment and ensures the integration of air operations.
The end of the posting, comprises about 50 Military, It is scheduled for early December.
unmanned aircraft of the Belgian Air Force crashed in access to BA 11.
In 10 October 2017, a Belgian military drone crashed near the Air Base of Beja, Tests performed when, yesterday afternoon.
A aircraft, the size of a light aircraft, It disappeared from radar at about 16 hours and found, just over two kilometers from the runway of the Air Base No. 11 (BA11), after a farmer has given warning.
At the crash site, which is located between Mombeja and Santa Vitória, lane on the approach zone, were members of the Portuguese Air Force with a crane, the aircraft having been dismantled to facilitate transport to BA11, with the support of the FA vehicles from Belgium.
The car entered the BA11 fence 01,00 hours, nine hours after the aircraft, controlled by mobile phone signal, have disappeared from devices Air Force (DOES) Belgian.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
