If Ireland starts trying to buy radars etc. off Ukraine to save money, I called it first.
>Dr Tom Clonan described Ireland as being a “weak link” in Europe when it comes to security and defence.
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>”Ireland is responsible for 220 million maritime acres of ocean, but we can’t patrol it. We have nine ships, four of them are tied up with crew shortages. We can’t see into our airpace, as we are the only country in the EU with no primary radar,” he said.
Defense issues aside, if an aircraft ever loses enough sensors to be unable to determine its location, so that it cannot broadcast it to Irish receivers, that also means that Irish air traffic control would not be able to guide them in. The Irish ATC can only see planes if they are reporting their position themselves.
It also has non-military bad guy implications. One of the first things that the hijackers on 9/11 did was to disable the transponders on the aircraft to make it harder to track the planes. If the same thing had happened in Ireland, they’d be invisible.
Yes, Russia, please simply perform your military tests everywhere. The world really does not have any other problems and is bored as shit! 🙁
Hope in the end you will find your fucking war ships on the mighty Atlantic’s ocean floor!!!
Are they going to send Liam Neeson into to negotiate?
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If Ireland starts trying to buy radars etc. off Ukraine to save money, I called it first.
>Dr Tom Clonan described Ireland as being a “weak link” in Europe when it comes to security and defence.
>
>”Ireland is responsible for 220 million maritime acres of ocean, but we can’t patrol it. We have nine ships, four of them are tied up with crew shortages. We can’t see into our airpace, as we are the only country in the EU with no primary radar,” he said.
Defense issues aside, if an aircraft ever loses enough sensors to be unable to determine its location, so that it cannot broadcast it to Irish receivers, that also means that Irish air traffic control would not be able to guide them in. The Irish ATC can only see planes if they are reporting their position themselves.
It also has non-military bad guy implications. One of the first things that the hijackers on 9/11 did was to disable the transponders on the aircraft to make it harder to track the planes. If the same thing had happened in Ireland, they’d be invisible.
Yes, Russia, please simply perform your military tests everywhere. The world really does not have any other problems and is bored as shit! 🙁
Hope in the end you will find your fucking war ships on the mighty Atlantic’s ocean floor!!!
Are they going to send Liam Neeson into to negotiate?