The French website “Agouravux” published a report on the presence of the first flight of NATO’s MAGMA 10 drone over the Mediterranean, indicating that it also flew over Libya.
The modern airliner took off from the “Sigonella” airbase, on the Italian island of Sicily, and collected during its flight through sensors photos and information on moving targets that were transferred to the NATO Task Force operational support center in Sigonella, where it was processed and then provided to the members of the alliance.
The US Air Force General Philip Stewart described the event as historic, as it would allow NATO to open a new chapter on improving allies’ capabilities in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced in early 2020 that NATO had opened the first ground-based surveillance system for drones at the Sigonella air base.
Stoltenberg then tweeted that “a single drone can observe an area as large as Poland, and has a system that can remain in the air for more than 30 hours, allowing the coverage of the entire European Atlantic region, as well as areas outside it.”
