Around 12:00 a NATO Northrop Grumman RQ-4D “Phoenix” left Sigonella AB to make a surveillance mission (probably) over Libya. We don’t know the registration of the drone but we know that NATO RQ-4Ds use Italian Hex code (in this case 33FD69).
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The drone was trackable until it entered into Tripoli FIR, after some minutes the ADS-B transponder was switched off.
The mission continues (14:30 CET) between Crete and eastern Libya
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