Conor Gallagher joins crew members as they explain how the new acquisitions can help tackle a range of threats from fishery violations to incursions by ships from potentially hostile nations
It took a few minutes for the people on the deck of the Stena Line ferry to realise they were being watched from above.
By way of demonstration, a crew member points the camera at a sailing ship 5km away. Individual passengers can be seen moving about the deck. “You can see people eating an ice-cream from 15,000ft,” a crew member says.Woman who died after dog attack at her home in Co Limerick named locallyThe C295′s radar detects targets from 300km away.
The planes will also be used to monitor for incursions into the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone by ships from potentially hostile nations. The Air Corps has been involved in tracking The addition of two new Airbus C295 maritime patrol aircraft expands the Air Corps' surveillance capability. Photograph: Alan Betson
Maritime threats are “growing, complex and advanced”, said the Defence Forces chief, and include threats from “cartels trying to find weak spots for people and drug trafficking”.
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