When will @dfatirl bring in Russian Ambassador to explain why their aircraft are flying along Irish west coast? http://t.co/hvJQ90E4iX
— Derek Mooney (@dsmooney) January 29, 2015
The Irish Aviation Authority has confirmed two Russian miliatary aircraft flew through Irish controlled airspace on Wednesday
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) January 30, 2015
Without some damn war to fight.
Back to Chelsea with you.
Meanwhile…
Russia’s Ambassador to Britain Alexander Yakovenko, summonsed to 10 Downing Street this afternoon.
Sources said the Russian planes were flying without their transponders turned on, making them invisible to civilian aircraft. A number of flights arriving in Britain had to be diverted to avoid potential disaster….
UK summons Russian ambassador after ‘dangerous’ bombers disrupt civil aircraft (Telegraph)
Did we scramble the Air Corps?
That would have sent them Scurrying alright…
Nah, we let England do that for us
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/russian-nuclear-bomber-planes-fly-off-west-coast-of-ireland-as-british-typhoon-fighters-scrambled-30949988.html
Britain, not England
‘Curious now
If we were to scramble the Air Core
What would that look like
Besides the Government Jet and a few Rescue Choppers
Dunno Ring them and ask them.
miliatary?
they’re going to invade mayo and nick all the gas we gave to shell.
Take 20 years for anyone to notice…
And letting two British fighter jets “that can carry NUCLEAR BOMBS” into irish airspace is ok?!?
Are the Russians the bad guys?
Is that the story??
Cause the rendition flights and troops we turn a blind eye to stomping through our airports makes me know for sure we aren’t on the neutrals side.
Russia is like the gay bashing kid up the road, so we’re not with him, right.
The other guy, USA, he’s a bully too but can exercise more tolerance so…. I guess it’s time to paint rainbows on dem nukes.
A typhoon could carry a nuclear weapon sure, a tupolev bear can carry many nuclear weapons, not that the number is significant and not that you would use a nuclear weapon in air to air combat, unless you were tired of living that is.
There are no neutrals in foxholes, only the neutralised (see what i did there)
Now, pass the scotch….
Oh no, an armchair general, arms geek type.
Thats armchair brigadier general to you sonny !
Not really, but unless you live under a rock, the average joe would know most of these useless factoids.
The Soviets used Shannon as well.
but Boris never got off the plane
She didt complain much…
Badum tish!
Being so busy bringing facts to the masses, you may have missed some of Putin’s carry on over the last several years.
A Russian bomber arriving unannounced in Irish airspace without so much as a by your leave is far more disturbing than pre-agreed landings in Shannon, regardless of how appalling the purposes for some of those stop overs.
I dion’t care who you are, flying a pair of bombers capable of blowing up Dublin over head without even transponders on to let us know you are there is threatening behaviour.
The Ambassador should be summoned.
Heh, true, wouldnt be much point announcing your bombing raid.
And the hundreds of submarines “with nuclear BOMBS” running up and down our coastline for decades?
In our waters, without our permission, are they ok?
Or hasn’t the news told you what to worry about and when yet?
+ Sheralga (http://www.thejournal.ie/shelga-state-papers-1984-1837788-Jan2015/)
No, they are not ok either, and ambassadors have been summoned in the past for such incidents.
Thankfully, supreme truth seers such as your good self shine a light where newspapers and history books dare not venture, keeping we mere mortals informed.
its not Irish Airspace it was International Airspace some of it controlled by Ireland
The euro fighters based in Anglesey are not armed with nuclear weapons
Do we actually have the capability to blow these guys out of the sky?
Anyone?
It’d definitely make the news a little less dull.
…no
Blow them out of the sky?
Wi’wha’ exactly
prayers
Marty morrisseys powerful ejaculate.
It’s the real reason out neutrality has never been threatened.
No, we spent the €64bn that the US spent on Star Wars, on Anglo and AIB.
The military have SFA to target modern warplanes, maybe sarcasm and wise cracks.
More of this please Russia.
Why?
Nah, we subscribe to the ‘sure no one would ever attack us, we’re a great bunch of lads’ school of defending one’s airspace.
Based on every other assault on our sovereignty, the reaction from DFA will be ‘downplay, make it go away’.
Otherwise there’s work to do or something.
Nobody gives a fupp what we think as much as we might think they do.
Maybe Tubridy can get the Russian Ambassador on and ask him if he has Irish blood and we’ll all do a jig for him.
Maybe they were checking out the airfields in Cleggan and Inishboffin that Eamon O Cuiv spunked €9m on?
FG troll gonna troll troll troll
Scramble the Air Corps?! No jets – just a turboprop that flies up to 25k feet – those ‘Bears’ fly at 45k.. So much for ‘defending’ neutrality..
No doubt the Commander in Chief…..The President was in full alert
and took command, the Russians are merely responding to over
flights into their air space which was stepped up by NATO over
the turmoil in the Ukraine…..on wonders how long it took NATO
US and the British to detect the flight progress of Bear’s and mount
a response, the Russian’s might be interested to see what electronic
intelligence they can glean and also what electronic signals
were emitted from a Chinese Battle ship on a “courtesy” visit in
Portsmouth….as the incident was close by.
Given that all our security authorities are too busy guarding water meters
we would not be in a position to make a response….even a token one:
TU-95s are not “nuclear bombers”
So where exactly does Irish airspace start and end ?
Oh there’s a map in this …. check out the ICAO’s mapviewer
If Ireland is truly neutral, then we should be supportive of Russia protecting its ethnic neighbours in eastern Ukraine. If the US can use Shannon, then maybe the Russians might use Athlone (there’s no airport there yet, but I’m sure the Russians would fund it if we leased them landing rights for a decade).