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Navy chiefs issue security warnings over presence of 'foreign military vessels'
Navy chiefs issue security warnings over presence of 'foreign military vessels'
Report in the Irish Examiner of the briefing of the Oireachtas Committee on Defence and other matters refers.
About time some service chiefs has the guts to tell it like it is. Well done Navy.
In todays Irish Examiner an association describing itself as The Irish Defence and Security Association is initiating steps to develop our Defence against cyber and climate threats. It is an effort to capitalise on the need as they see it to beef up our uses of modern means up to using satellites for defence purposes. I thought we were doing that nationally in any event???
Russian naval support ship makes surprise appearance off Cork Coast with possible 'unknown' partner
The Akademik Pashin is an oil-tanker for Russia's Northern Fleet and it appears to have diverged from it's planned course
The Russian navy's Ustinov, third largest vessel in the Northern Fleet, which had been due to take part in exercises off the Cork Coast in February
We may have to put the Castletownbere Trawlers on high alert as a Russian naval ship has suddenly popped up off the coast of Cork - and it could have company.
The Akademik Pashin is an 'oiler' for Russia's giant Northern Fleet - a support ship that shadows the fighting ships of the Northern Fleet. At 10am this morning, it popped up on radar just 75 nautical miles (140km) due south of the West Cork coast. That's closer than the Russian fleet was planning to hold exercises in February.
Russian fleet oiler pinged at 10.30am this morning off the coast of Cork
The fleet oiler usually operates closely with ships like the giant missile cruiser, Marshal Ustinov, one of the Russian naval ships which were shadowed by the Norwegian Air Force in January as the fleet sailed towards scheduled exercises 160 miles off our southwest coast.
Earlier today, the Pashin 'pinged' 75 nautical miles due south of Cork, popping up on multiple Marine Traffic scanner sites including Vesselfinder.com - and it immediately drew attention from social media accounts and security experts who track Russian naval activity - as it was not on its expected course.
The fleet oiler can be tracked by ordinary marine radar and tracker sites - but the fighting ships it usually accompanies cannot, as they do not have civilian and merchant transponders - or Automatic identification systems (AIS) - and are effectively 'cloaked' from view.
And there is speculation that the Akademik Pashin is not alone, with tracker group The Lookout saying: "The Northern Fleet oiler Akademik Pashin didn't turn south-west upon leaving the English Channel as expected, but appears to be operating south of Ireland, possibly along with an unknown companion."
If the Akademik Pashin is operating with Russian Naval ships - they are almost certainly already being tracked by NATO and by the Royal Airforce.
The IT article says that the Russians are allowed sail through the Irish Sea as long as they don't enter territorial waters, but is the northern exit of the Irish Sea, The North Channel, not British territorial waters?
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