Fighter jets for the Air Corps?

I dunno what your reading, but anything I've read links to official source of the analysis, or article. Which you'd know if you'd actually read and/or understood it. Nothing once off about the same thing being said for years from a wide variety sources.

... and predictably you're back to war again...

More shortages in the US.

"In response to a question from committee member Rep. Jennifer Kiggans (R-VA), asking how long it takes to train Air Force fighter, bomber and mobility pilots, Allvin testified that training for mobility pilots should take 18 months while fighter and bomber pilot training could take more than two years.

But he explained that it’s actually taking the Air Force up to four years to train new pilots because the service doesn’t have enough training aircraft available."

Seems so. I guess if you ignore resourcing issues with people and equipment, for a long time. It starts to gain momentum that's hard to reverse. Especially if there's crisis.

Never heard of the phrase 'combat air patrol'?

Jets control airspace by responding to ground, sea and airborne tracking systems and denying access to that airspace to any other aircraft, be it a warplane, a spy plane, a drone or a civilian aircraft out of communication or known to be in unfriendly hands.

It is the most routine tasking that any interceptor / air superiority fighter will ever do. In all likelihood, it'll be 99% of its service life.

Both forces waited too long to replace their jet trainers. The RAF Hawk should have been replaced a decade ago with another LIFT, but in the meantime the Tucano was also withdrawn from service, so now all the people waiting on conversion courses are also struggling just to maintain normal flying hours due to the lack of aircraft. In the USA the T38, which was used by everyone in the fast jet game to keep their flying hours current, suddenly stopped becoming available,as one by one airframes started timing out. Combine that with a few high profile fatal accidents and suddenly everyone is trying to stay current on a handful of airframes. Air National Guard units in particular struggled, as it was not always possible or practical to take an F16 or F-A/18 up just to build flying hours on cost grounds.

Of course neither air force is in the habit of buying something off the shelf built elsewhere.

Nice rant that's unsurprisingly all wrong as usual.

Your trolling is becoming tiresome.

So too is your ignorance of the deteriorating security situation in Europe and the north Atlantic, very definitely not to exclude Ireland.

Fact: three days ago, the UK Defence secretary announced the Government there had approved the sending of long range air-launched Storm Shadow cruise missiles to the Ukrainian forces. A missile almost impervious to air defence systems, it could cause devastation of Russian formations and indeed to strategic targets in the near border area of Russia proper. The Russian authorities are enraged by this escalation.

Fact: Russian government survey vessels, deployed with Russian naval surface vessels and submarines have been identified loitering over a multitude of undersea pipelines and cables in the North Sea, Baltic Sea, Arctic Ocean,Celtic Sea, English Channel and North Atlantic proper, including the territorial waters and EEZs of a dozen or more EU and/or NATO states. Including Ireland.

Considering the Russians invented the false flag operation over a hundred years ago (Maskirovka: The Disguise) and that they already blew up the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline, it would be beyond naive to think that energy and communications infrastructure linking Ireland to NATO states would not be under threat, because of the involvement of those NATO states in supplying offensive weapons to Ukraine.

The Russians don't care that Ireland is militarily non-aligned, we have been sanctioning Russia, seizing their assets in the IFSC, deporting Russians who are a threat and engaging in serious diplomatic fall outs with their embassy, humiliating their Ambassador and allowing permanent protests at their facilities.

And so, your deliberate obtuseness around the hybrid threat environment in which Ireland exists and against which it must defend, is ignorant, naive, childish and stupid. And nobody here thinks you have a scrap of credibility in anything you say.

I would guess a little of both having read it. Interesting to see yet again DPER getting flagged as the major obstacle for progressing anything.

If that is accurate and current within the AC it’s some interesting figures, seems to be much lower than what we’ve seen before, though off the top of my head that operational coatings seem to be closer to the M346 suggestion to the Commission than operating Gripens?