To counter this the Commission recommended the immediate development of primary radar.
This has been declared a significant danger to civilian aircraft, but the Commission found it also causes significant economic disruption as a result of delayed or diverted flights. In its findings the Commission noted flights of Russian bombers in particular, which have been conducting so-called training missions down the West coast. In the coming weeks the government is set to announce its implementation plan for the Irish Defence Forces. In the most ambitious set of suggestions it said that Ireland would get 12 fighter jets to police Irish airspace. In a presentation to a defence summit organised by non-profit policy group Slándáil in Dublin this week, JR Wildridge of Lockheed Martin suggested that Ireland could alternatively get new fighters from his company – including the F16 or the cheaper South Korean manufactured FA-50 jet.Įarlier this year the Commission on the Defence Forces set out a series of recommendations around the Irish Air Corps. A LEADING US jet fighter manufacturer has said the Irish Air Corps could buy or lease second-hand aircraft from other European air forces which are now adopting the more modern stealth variants.
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