This St Patrick’s Day government authorised a US military cargo plane to land at Shannon Airport on its way back from delivering munitions to Israel.
Yesterday morning the heavy payload cargo plane left a key NATO base, Germany’s Spangdahlem Air Base, and hours later arrived at the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) Ovda Airbase.
The US Air Force C-17A Globemaster left the IDF base and returned to Germany.
It left Germany early this morning and was expected to land at Scotland’s Glasgow Prestwick Airport.
But the plane – used for delivering munitions of war – diverted to Shannon and remained at the Irish airport for four hours before leaving Ireland for the US at midday.
A Shanghai-based geospatial intelligence firm last month revealed the extent of US military cargo deliveries to the IDF’s Ovda Airbase – illustrating the importance of these flights to the Israeli military.
“Satellite imagery shows the US military continuously transporting supplies to Ovda air force base via C-17s,” said MizarVision.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has been contacted for comment.
