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French
Navy SIGINT/Intelligence ship Dupuy de Lôme entered the Black
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The
French Navy Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) ship Dupuy de Lôme (A
759) crossed the Bosphorus to enter the Black Sea on June 3rd. Last
year, the French "spy" ship was deployed four times to the
Black Sea, an unprecedented situation. The vessel is undoubtedly deployed
to monitor the events currently taking place in East Ukraine. |
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The Dupuy de Lôme is designed for the collection of signals, communications
and electronic emission beyond enemy lines. It is fitted with an impressive
array of sensors, most of them developped by Thales.
Picture: Jean-Michel Roche
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The
French vessel replaced the U.S. Navy Bruke class guided-missile destroyer
USS Ross which left for the Mediterranean in the earlier hours of Wednesday.
The Montreux Convention of 1936 that regulates the regime of the Turkish
straits - the Dardanelles and the Bosporus - says that naval ships of
the non-littoral countries can cruise in the Black Sea for not more
than twenty-one days.
The Dupuy de Lôme is designed for the collection of signals, communications
and electronic emission beyond enemy lines. It is fitted with an impressive
array of sensors, most of them developped by Thales.
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