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Monday, December 26, 2011

New Spy Plane to Watch N.Korean Missile Launches

Falcon 2000The South Korean military will introduce new high-tech reconnaissance aircraft capable of intercepting communications and detecting missile launches in North Korea.

A government source on Sunday said the existing reconnaissance aircraft -- the Geumgang for visual information and the Baekdu for communications intercepts -- have only limited capabilities, so the military will buy two Falcon 2000s from French firm Dassault.

The planes will chiefly intercept North Korean wireless communications or detect the frequencies of weapons and equipment.

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