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DF Commission Report

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    #932
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 24,019 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    All of our fleet up to the P60 class were already co-funded by the EU with common fisheries policy grants.

    We may benefit in future from piggybacking the economies of scale for equipment and munitions, but nobody is going to buy IFVs, ships, and planes for one of the wealthiest nations on the face of the Earth.



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    #933
    vswr
    Registered Users Posts: 266 ✭✭vswr


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122343743#Comment_122343743

    so now we'll have 2 potential grants to sponge from… bigger ship, still no sailors to run them



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    #934
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 24,019 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Obviously the acquisition of new vessels and aircraft is going to occur in parallel with reforms and increased recruitment.

    Even if we ordered the large MRV on Monday morning, it would be 4 years before she's operational. Probably longer.

    None of this stuff happens in a silo. Renewal and expansion of the DF means new buildings AND new weapons AND structural reform AND improved pay and conditions AND expanded recruitment AND a deeper intelligence infrastructure AND new technologies AND a revised role in this Republic AND - almost the easiest bit - more ships and planes and armour.

    Its one big bastard of a task.



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