Ireland has signed an acquisition order with France which will see the delivery of long-range military radars under the country’s military radar programme.<\/p>\n
The order was confirmed this morning by Minister for Defence Helen McEntee.<\/p>\n
The order will see delivery of five deployable Thales long-range radar systems, commencing next year. <\/p>\n
Ms McEntee said it was “a significant milestone” in terms of delivery of the radar programme. <\/p>\n
The first long-range radar systems are expected to be delivered next year, with the full capability in place by the end of 2028. <\/p>\n
Ms McEntee has previously said the new equipment will significantly strengthen Ireland’s ability to protect its skies. <\/p>\n
The Commission on the Defence Forces identified the development of a primary radar capability as an immediate priority to ensure Ireland can maintain a complete ‘Recognised Air Picture\u2019. <\/p>\n
The Department of Defence said that strong progress has also been made in developing the Defence Forces\u2019 ground-based air defence capability, including the accelerated delivery of Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) ahead of Ireland\u2019s EU Presidency. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland has signed an acquisition order with France which will see the delivery of long-range military radars under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-628282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}