Fighter jets for the Air Corps?

I fully expect the pre-trial motion to succeed and for this matter to never see the inside of an open Court.

Craughwell's intentions may be noble enough here, but he's overreaching. And he knows it.

Thing is, October means its in the news while the 2024 estimates are being drawn up. Hood to keep it in the news, even if its clear govt have no intention of doing anything until 2030 at the earliest.

Its a bit like when you are a kid and your ma tells you to tidy your room, and you stack up a few books... before lying down to take a nap.

While it was mentioned in 2015 and some of the companies did try and capitalise on that, the department only started a procurement team since the Commission, and with how things are changing, is the capabilities/pricing of whatever was suggested in 2015 relevant nearly 10 years on? Let alone when/if they actually put a Tender out given the pace Procurement goes in DOD.

Nah, whole different paradigm now.

Supply chain, capacity, inflationary cycle, high demand for the specific technology etc.

They might as well have read the Smyths Toys Christmas brochure in 2015, for all the good it would do them now.

Are you talking about a fixed land-based platform of sea surface surveillance?

Is that even practical beyond a very short range of land?

Firstly, your assessment of the reality of anything, is best disregarded.

But one thing Craughwell and others have done, is to raise awareness of the unsatisfactory nature of the situation, not to mention the hypocrisy.

That genie isn't going back in the bottle and by setting up and then accepting the recommendations of the CoDF, the Government have conceded the point.

Cost has really nothing to do with it. This is about a sovereign Republic contracting out big chunks of its defence obligations to the very nation with whom we were essentially in conflict, for centuries. A territorial conflict which remains unresolved to this day. And that matters to many people in Ireland.

Who knows, it may well matter to the Brits too. They have become very insular in this last decade and they could withdraw from the agreement at any moment. What then?

I could see the systems being feeding back to the same command facility but would positions for Primary Radar work for Maritime Radar as well? If they were to use the preexisting sites for the IAA would they work as well? Would the systems cause interference with each other I wonder and what kind of systems are we looking at given the suggested Kite for Project costs? Makes you wonder which nation they have already sent a team to, might give us an idea about what general capabilities they are looking at.

Their EL/M-2022A(V)3 radar does have air surveillance modes.

Just use the block function, a lot easier to ignore them.

The P60s were definitely FFBNW Air search radar, and the Oerlikon 76mm can be used quite effectively in the AA role. Whether they can datalink their radar picture really depends on what unit they ever decide to go with. Very informative video apart from him saying Melara as Malaria, the whole way through.

The Secondary Rh202 cannon are also reaching end of life, and much talk about an RWS system to replace these. Either way, many RWS that size also operate as a CIWS system, such as HITROLE 20 or Lionfish