Europe and Early Warning
Closely linked with its foray into space-based military reconnaissance, the WEU is evaluating concepts for early warning satellites in conjunction with a potential European antimissile defense program. In Rome in 1993, the Technological and Aerospace committee cited the need for "space monitoring and early warning system from which it would be possible to choose an antimissile defense system for Europe" (Reference 105). No specific designs for an early warning satellite system have been released, and a decision to initiate such a major program is not expected in the near-term. French plans for an early warning network could be adopted, in part or whole, by the WEU.
