{"id":66556,"date":"2026-08-18T09:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/66556\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:05:20","slug":"irelands-anti-israel-stance-limits-the-capabilities-of-its-newly-acquired-dassault-falcon-6x-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/66556\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s Anti-Israel Stance Limits the Capabilities of its Newly Acquired Dassault Falcon 6X \u00a0Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tel Aviv: Ireland has not yet found a replacement for the Israeli system that was planned to be used on its new official jet aircraft. The Irish anti-Israeli stance is limiting the capabilities of its new official jet aircraft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ireland ordered its new \u20ac53 million government jet, a Dassault Falcon 6X, without the Israeli-developed FalconEye navigation and landing system. The decision follows a 2024 policy against signing direct contracts with Israeli defence companies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kssl.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kalyani_banner.jpg\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" alt=\"ads\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The omitted system is Falcon Eye, an enhanced vision technology built by French manufacturer Dassault in partnership with Israeli defence contractor Elbit Systems. Installing FalconEye required a separate direct procurement agreement with Elbit Systems, which breached Ireland\u2019s August 2024 policy against buying new Israeli defence equipment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FalconEye is the first Head-Up Display (HUD) system to blend synthetic, data base-driven terrain mapping and real-time enhanced video generated by the unique multispectral Enhanced Vision System (EVS), providing an unprecedented level of situational awareness to flight crews in all conditions of operation, day and night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without FalconEye, pilots have reduced visibility aids and may be forced to divert to another airport during dense fog or low-light conditions.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/raksha-anirveda.com\/author\/arie-egozi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ARIE-EGOZI-INAGE-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-150x150 size-150x150\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>-The writer is an Israel-based freelance journalist. The views expressed are of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views of Raksha Anirveda<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/raksha-anirveda.com\/?_dnlink=68821&amp;t=1718450850&amp;strack=1625197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/big_bang_RA.gif\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" alt=\"big bang\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tel Aviv: Ireland has not yet found a replacement for the Israeli system that was planned to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13060],"tags":[4664,2240],"class_list":["post-66556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dassault-aviation","tag-dassault","tag-dassault-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}