VLF station La Régine (French Navy)
France /
Languedoc-Roussillon /
Verdun-en-Lauragais /
World
/ France
/ Languedoc-Roussillon
/ Verdun-en-Lauragais
France / World / Languedoc-Roussillon / Aude / Carcassonne / Castelnaudary-Nord
military, VLF transmitter station
La Régine hosts a Very Low Frequency Naval communications facility.
Using 28 transmitters and antennas (the highest one over 300m) the facility provides contact with the French nuclear ballistic missile submarines at sea.
This sensitive facility is secured by a specialized Marines Infantry Company: the 'Compagnie des Fusilliers Marins de France Sud'.
It's official callsign is FUG.
Using 28 transmitters and antennas (the highest one over 300m) the facility provides contact with the French nuclear ballistic missile submarines at sea.
This sensitive facility is secured by a specialized Marines Infantry Company: the 'Compagnie des Fusilliers Marins de France Sud'.
It's official callsign is FUG.
Wikipedia article: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villemagne#.C3.89conomie
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 43°23'20"N 2°5'54"E
- Naval Comms Centre - La Lauzette 12 km
- Castelnaudary, Quartier Capt. Danjou 14 km
- Airbase 101 Toulouse-Francazal (closed) 63 km
- Rosas AS radar site 154 km
- CENTRE D’ÉTUDES DE GRAMAT 154 km
- Marcoule Nuclear Site 225 km
- Airbase 125 Istres-Le tubé 227 km
- Base aérienne 115 d'Orange-Caritat 236 km
- Aérodrome Orange Plan-de-Dieu 243 km
- Base aérienne 701 Salon de Provence 244 km
- Cammaze's lake 1.8 km
- Quarry 6 km
- Quarry 6.2 km
- Quarry 7.3 km
- Saint-Papoul 8.1 km
- Revel 11 km
- Castelnaudary 14 km
- Revel Montgey Airfield (LFIR) 14 km
- Lac de Lenclas 17 km
- Lac de la Ganguise 25 km