Air Corps testing new ‘eyes of the State’ maritime surveillance aircraft

The air force in Ireland will be more “tech-enabled, enhanced and efficient” going forward, the Defence Forces chief of staff has said.

Lieutenant General Sean Clancy made the comments as the Air Corps conducted test flights of its new C295 maritime surveillance aircraft on Wednesday.

He said the two aircraft were part of the response to growing and more advanced threats operating at sea.

He said: “Everything from cartels trying to find weak spots in terms of people, drugs and trafficking which are counter to our norms and values and threaten the sovereignty of our state and every other state on the western shoreline of Europe, which is where they are probing those soft spots.”

He explained that the Defence Forces had taken a phased approach to introducing the aircraft since obtaining them last year.

“When you have an aircraft with a capability of this magnitude, ultimately this is going…

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