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    “Non è Top Gun”: i piloti dell’Irish Air Corps riceveranno un addestramento al combattimento “dogfighting”.


    “Non è Top Gun”: i piloti dell’Irish Air Corps riceveranno un addestramento al combattimento “dogfighting”.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/04/02/its-not-top-gun-air-corps-pilots-to-receive-dogfighting-combat-training/

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    1. nitro1234561 on

      As if funding greyhound racing wasn’t bad enough the government is paying for dogfighting now

    2. RomfordWellington on

      I can guarantee all those pilots on that course felt like they were the dogs bollocks. It’s absolutely Top Gun.

    4. GerKoll on

      Yeah, right….next thing they tell us is that Special Forces are not all Rambos……

    5. IrishCrypto on

      Its a bit like a grown man sitting in a go kart with pedals doing a lap of Mondello Park.

      What a complete waste of money, if any of these planes were confronted in an actual situation they would be shot down before the pilot has time to embrace his inner Tom Cruise.

    6. alex-the-meh-4212 on

      Isn’t dogfight just not a thing anymore since vietnam?

    7. OnlyEstablishment243 on

      How does an air force ‘lose the ability to conduct in-house combat training’, so that we have to hire a civilian contractor. I suspect someone’s mate is getting very rich indeed from this.

    8. _defunkt_ on

      That will come in handy when the Russians attack using Yak-3s from 1940.

    9. wolf101123 on

      Should probably get them some jet fighters as well then. 

    10. throwawaypsql on

      I presume this is in preparation for our new interceptors that are coming any day now…

    11. finzaz on

      It’s not Top Gun until the volleyball on Dollymount and a sing-song afterwards in the pub.

    12. Malboury on

      They’ll be taking a page from Ukraine’s book and considering how these older planes might be used to intercept drones (as mentioned in the article), and not thinking of dogfighting Russian jets or something. The machine gun mounted on them is more than enough to down a Shaheed or similar drone. It’s tempting to chuckle, but given the way the world is going, and the fact that we had unidentified drones approach within 500m of an Irish naval vessel just in December, some training on using older planes as interceptors is a reasonable precaution to take.

    13. boyga01 on

      Fierce game of Gaelic football on the beach in the white shorts then afterwards. The need for Schpeeed

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