{"id":614134,"date":"2025-12-05T16:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/614134\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:16:17","slug":"france-probes-suspected-drone-flights-over-nuclear-submarine-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/614134\/","title":{"rendered":"France probes suspected drone flights over nuclear submarine base &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just got the news that France has opened an investigation after suspected drones were spotted over the <strong>Ile Longue nuclear submarine base<\/strong> on the Atlantic coast late Thursday, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of overflights <strong>began around 7 p.m. and continued until early Friday<\/strong>, with most sightings in the first hours. Authorities denied claims that gendarmes fired at the drones but said precautionary measures were taken.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor leading the case said <strong>investigators are still verifying<\/strong> the information, noting that some accounts could be unreliable while others appear more credible. &#8220;Some of the reports may be completely fanciful, others are much more serious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The facility houses <strong>France&#8217;s nuclear-powered submarines<\/strong>, each armed with ballistic missiles. Drone incursions of unknown origin have unsettled several European countries in recent months, with EU officials calling them a form of hybrid warfare.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-1645313-4753753\" data-fullsize=\"\/media\/37\/franceprobessuspected_4753753b.png\" data-lazy=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.euhttps:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/media\/37\/franceprobessuspected_4753753_650x.png\" width=\"650\" onclick=\"if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; gallery_openmodal('1645313','4753753',false,'9a8522085f95ec30b3878900ff7d2159');\" height=\"353\" alt=\"France probes suspected drone flights over nuclear submarine base\" class=\"rwd_col_content lazy\" data-cf-modified-687239833df4e0e7862d05dc-=\"\"\/>Ile Longue nuclear submarine base \/\/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We just got the news that France has opened an investigation after suspected drones were spotted over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-614134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115667861568693253","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}