The Defence Forces have mounted a hush hush surveillance operation – to monitor a Russian research ship off the Irish coast, it has emerged.
The Mirror has established that a state of the art Air Corps surveillance plane as well as a Naval Service ship were involved in the operation off the Cork coast on Monday.
The €5 million PC-12 Spectre Air Corps plane was sent from Casement Aerodrome in south Dublin to monitor the Akademik Boris Petrov as it moved through Irish waters off the coast.
