Ireland’s planned purchase of combat jets and the development of a long-overdue national radar system mark a historic turning ...

Few countries in the developed world are without fighter jets. Combat aircraft fast enough to intercept an aerial threat are considered the backbone of a capable air defense, and most nations maintain ...

Ireland’s Tanaiste (Deputy Prime Minster) and Defence Minister Simon Harris has instructed “groundwork” to begin on the ...

Ireland needs new radars to see what is flying above our airspace before we go about purchasing fighter jets, a security ...

Officials in the Department of Defence have been asked to cost a massive expansion of the Irish military, including the ...

The Tánaiste said 'I think we are living in a geo-security and geo-political environment that is volatile and we have a lot ...

Ireland does not have its own capability to police its airspace and does not have any fighter jets to respond to airborne ...

Tánaiste and Minister for Defence Simon Harris is now “convinced” of the need for the State to acquire combat jet aircraft to ...

Experts say such a plan will be a massive cost to the taxpayer, with a potential price tag of around €1 billion.

THE government will spend up to €100 million a year on fighter jets as part of a major upgrade of our defence capability.

Boost to Starmer’s ‘coalition of the willing’ as Dublin pushes to expand its military and put boots on the ground ...

The MiG-35 was intended to be Russia’s answer to modern multi-role fighters, evolving from the MiG-29 with improved avionics, ...