i think that the air corps will get crushed if the ever have to go one on one combat with air forces of other countries. I know it probably wont happen in the near future but better safe than sorry.
2007-05-09 10:11:23 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
It's unlikely as in the military world they are seen as a part time defence force
2007-05-09 10:23:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Irish Air Corps Fighter Jets
2016-12-10 17:14:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why waste good taxpayers money buying jets for the Irish Air Corps?
Who in their right mind is going to 'attack' Ireland?
The Brits did that. Now look!
No, Ireland should hold on to it's prop driven planes. Could be worth something in a few years; antiques.
Eire is a neutral country. Any Irish citizen who wants to fly jets, can simply join the Royal Air Force, like you do, and train as a fighter pilot.
Same basic rule applies to any Irish citizen who wants to do military service. There are regiments in the British Army which are just, well, Irish. The Irish Guards, the Royal Irish Rangers etc.
2007-05-09 18:45:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ireland has a limited defence budget, and operates a strict posture of neutrality. Owning jet fighters of the F16/F18 category could be consedered by other nations as a putative negation of Irish Neutrality, to wit, if Ireland has a squadron of Fighter aircraft, they see the need to defend against a possible aggressor. Austria has taken the same approach - they did buy a few old Saab Draken interceptors from Sweden a few years ago, but they are now, I believe, grounded.
Furthermore, to operate an effective fighter arm, you need supporting infrastructure such as radar, early-warning aircraft such as AWACS or ERIEYE. These are expensive.
One must look at Ireland from Irish eyes. Currently, there is no identifiable possible aggressor who is likely to attck Iraland using aircraft. Therefore, it is pointless to pay a lot of money to provide an effective fighter force and its infrastructure to deal with a threat that does not exist. The limited cash that Dublin allocates to the Irish Defence Forces is much better spent in providing for real threats, that tend to revolve around smuggling, fisheries protection, and the ability of the military to provide aid to the Civil power if there is a recrudescence of IRA activity or rioting amongst the population.
Ireland has flown jets - Vampires, aircraft that had a ground-attack and counter-insurgency use, and Fouga Magisters, that were useful training aircraft and again had a COIN capability.
Currently, the most useful aviation boost to the Irish forces would be an increase in their helicopter fleet, for liaison, transport and SAR duties. They could also do with a realistic anti-aircraft missile capability - a few batteries of Rapier and an increase from 21 launchers for the Swedish RBS70 hand-held systems would be a better deterrent than a few secondhand F16As
2007-05-09 11:06:54 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
You have to consider this, jets are getting so fast that the only way they'll hit a prop plane is by flying into it. I don't know what a prop plane costs these days but you can't even get a new F16 for less than $30 million. It just wouldn't be worth going to war with Ireland. Keep it that way, you're better off. In Ireland you have schools and work and public services. If you want to see what having military might does to a country, go to America, there are millions living on the streets over there. The poverty is unparallelled.
2007-05-09 10:33:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
You can check on the aircraft of the Irish Defence Force in their magazine,'Irish Defence Forces'.
2007-05-09 17:27:47 · answer #6 · answered by Rob Roy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Please be advised if any one wants to supply jets to IRELAND, I have 2 in my back yard and simply they get rusty. after delivery if they want they can modified them as fighter JETS... Of course her majesty has to give her permission for this IRISH new endeavour, Do not be surprised is very common for every USA citizen to own at least couple of these retired executive jets...Gas here is very expensive lately ...we try to save money...So any time we have to do food shopping we use our jets. I put already a lot of miles in these 2 jets....it is time to get new ones. Payment can be done by Pay pal only. LOL..... LOL.
2007-05-09 10:39:55 · answer #7 · answered by nikitasgarofallou 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I once knew a guy who fixed planes in Ireland and he told me that him and his buddies just got stoned all day and then, ummmmm, yeah, worked on the wings and stuff...it wasn't in the military, but if that's any indication of the type of plane workers you have over there, you might want to stick with the prop planes...Fighter jets are probably beyond a stoner's comprehension.
2007-05-09 10:25:34 · answer #8 · answered by Night_Owl_23 1 · 2⤊ 4⤋
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2017-02-19 16:43:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haha. sorry, but Ireland generally has few battles (other than the politic problem in Northern Ireland) and if there is going to be any war Ireland will probably keep out of it - or be protected by the R.A.F.
2007-05-09 10:22:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋