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France-UAE satellite deal shaky after US spy tech discovered onboard – report


Pleiades satellite.(Image from smsc.cnes.fr)

The sale of two intelligence satellites to the UAE by France for nearly a billion dollars could go south after they were found to contain American technology designed to intercept data transmitted to the ground station. The equipment, costing 3.4 billion dirhams ($930 million), constitutes two high-resolution Pleiades-type Falcon Eye military intelligence satellites, which a top UAE defense source has said contain specific US-made components designed to intercept the satellites’ communications with their accompanying ground station...

http://rt.com/news/france-uae-satellite-deal-220/

NSA is killing French/European industries...



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