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Altogether, are 3, 5 militaries at the frontier region that separates Brazil and Colombia. The range of 1, 6 km of extension is a permanent rout of drug and weapons trafficking and contraband.
Patrol boats, attack of helicopters, air force fighter, and in the middle of this war operation, the new is a discreet spy plane. His name: UAV (unmanned air vehicle), a remote controlled aircraft.
The UAV is Israeli manufacturing and it’s been used for the first time at a military operation in Brazil. He has 6 meters of weight. It is equipped with two high definition cameras, able to detail everything that happens in the vast green area. It can fly up to 16 hours.
The airplane can get to a velocity of 110km/h in altitude of four thousand meters. On the floor is impossible see the airplane and can’t hear any sound. But the UVA can see everything; register any movement, record in colors or infrared sensors, used in night over flight.
“If I want detected a person who is in a forest environment, for example, the ideal is use the infrared. It detected the activity which we are observing”. Explain the Lieutenant Paulo Laux, first UAV commandant.
The command cockpit of UAV works at a central. The arrival and flying are automatics, but the pilot can use the remote control too. The airplane route is defined by a computer.
If I want to dislocate, one of the ways that I have is just drag the icon that the aircraft goes. Is pretty simples, says the lieutenant Paulo Laux.
The UAV cameras are controlled by a joystick, like a video-game.
“Can move and directly the camera for a determinate sector that I want to look, or keep looking, doing the sweeping at a determinate area. I can change the image zoom approximating or deviating of the area that I want to look. Said the Major Leandro da Silveira, from the First Squadron of the UAV.
The UAV can monitories the forest in a 250 kilometers from the base and can send the images by satellite in real time. During the over flight, the UAV localize an illegal runway IN Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, in Amazonas, 70kilomters from Colombia frontier. Used by a criminal from Amazonia, next to Colombia frontier, this was later bombed by Brazilian fighters.
A flash in the woods of 1400 meters, according to the army, the runway would be used by traffickers as a foothold in the transportation of drugs. Identified the target, the next step is the destruction of the track.
Four fighters from Air force are equipped with bomb, carrying nearly 200 pounds of explosives each.
The objective is to make a hole in the runway to the aircraft could not land. With a diameter of four meters deep, six feet., "Said Lt. Marcelo Teixeira, an expert in weaponry.
Keep at the helicopter. Twenty minute of trip until the place where the runway was founded. For safety, we follow the operations at a distance of two thousand meters of the fighters.
Then, start the shot. We Record the moments that the bombs are dropped. From a fighter cockpit, a pilot records the attacks too.
It’s a not controlled runway, any aircraft can be landed there to make a supply, to keep drugs, weapons smuggling. The mission objective is eliminated those runways to achieve with these illegal activities cannot support the logistics, "said Lt. Col. Fernando Mauro, the Aviation Combat Team.
Another illegal runway was also bombed underground near the frontier with Colombia. It was late at night. Night vision sensors allowed the pilots hit the target accurately.
The actions are part of Operation Ágatha, the Fantastic followed, with exclusivity for six days, an unedited mission of the armed forces, in conjunction with federal agencies. In addition to the repression of trafficking and smuggling, the teams fight environmental crimes.
The Amazonia protection system identified an area of illegal logging within an Indian reservation. With that information, an air force aircraft were dislocated for the region and recorded images of a saw mill in operation. Now, the federal agents and a troop of 20 soldiers of the Army will have an operation on site.
The helicopter flies over the Rio Negro to get to the saw mill. At the landing, we found the watchful Reginaldo Pimentel Pereira, who claims to know not be allowed the extraction of timber in that area.
Militaries also arrive in a boat. The IBAMA agents measuring boards inside the saw-mill, they find a locked filing. And discover more wood ready for commercialization. The seized material would fill two trucks.
The equipments are sealed. According with the watchful, the saw-will owner is a merchant from Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira that would install at the pueblo reservation Alto Rio Negro more than 10 years.
We identify two types of basic crimes here. First, the irregular filing, that means, doesn’t exist a document of Forest origin for this Wood, the DOF, and, second, the saw-will is working without a license. Says the federal agent of environmental Cicero Furtado.
From São Gabriel we dislocated to Benjamin Constant, at Trípole Fronteira region. The denunciation is of a lot of tons of hardwood were scattered at rio Javari border – what confirmed during the over flight.
IBAMA apprehended 600 deadhead, evaluated in R$500 thousand, that were at a terrain beside a saw-will. The merchant get a work license, but he said that the wood wasn’t his.
The unsafely boats are a common situation: passengers without vests, vessels precarious conditions and overcrowded.
The agent result in the apprehension and like wasn’t identify by the Wood property and rest the adoption for the Brazilian army, Says the federal agent of environmental Andrei Souza da Silva.
We try acquire knowledge about the safety, the life risk in the river, use of vests, an special attention for have a lot of kids embedded at those boats, says the cap Robson do Nascimento, from the Operations Service Patrol Boat.
The Ágata operation is a result an accord between Brazil and Colombia to reinforce the vigilance at the frontier.
“There was a great inhibition of the offense. It took the liberty of the traffics action and of that uses the rivers to make the illegal traffic and committing the offenses. That is one of the main results”, conclude the General Pedro Fioravante, Jungle Infantry Brigade.