JFD are British, they bought out Ortega who designed the "Shadow SEAL"

The Irish Air Corps (IAC) are close to signing a contract with Austrian company Airborne Technologies (ABT) for three Self Contained Aerial Reconnaissance (SCAR) Pod systems https://www.key.aero/article/irelands-pc-9m-fleet-close-gaining-new-weapons-capability https://www.airbornetechnologies.at/ai...

THE Government is to double its investment in the Defence Forces in a first serious step to militarily protect our neutrality. Taoiseach Micheal Martin believes Ireland should remain neutral but have the capacity to defend our shores similar to other neutral nations like Finland and Switzerland. ht...

German parliament has approved the funds to kit out the army's Leo II's with the Rafael Trophy APS

https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/land ... protectio/

The RFT for the new body armour/load carrying system has gone out too.

RFT has gone out. The Defence Forces of Ireland are considering the purchase of a single rifle type to fulfil the operational requirements for Designated Marksman and Sniper Support to replace the existing FN FAL 7.62mm sniper support rifle. The rifle shall share a commonality of features such as ca...

Dude we detain 3 times the amount of Irish trawlers as everyone elses....by that logic our own fishermen are not showing much solidarity.

So a bit unexpected, the gov has decided the NS needs more ships because of Brexit related issues so have authorised the DOD to buy 2 new ships, smaller than the current PV, they'll be in the 50 metre length range for use in the Irish sea. According to the article in the media and how it's worded (F...

France has decided to restart holding large scale division sized conventional warfighting exercises for the first time in decades.

EuroGremlins...

SW1 wrote:The Italians to aquire 4 sigint and 4 awac aircraft based on the g550 platform I assume with Israeli assistance

Something interesting about the SIGINT variants is they also seem to be capable of offensive work too.....

Germany joins nascent European push to shoot down hypersonic missiles By: Sebastian Sprenger   1 day ago COLOGNE, Germany — Germany has joined a European Union-endorsed project aimed at intercepting a new generation of hypersonic missiles too fast for existing defensive systems. Nudged by France, B...

Looks like EU is nowhere to be seen on European defence helicopter project and has to defer to NATO. Some of the work that will go into this new helo has/will be developed under EU projects. and you know this how exactly? Following various EU funded Horizon etc projects over the last couple of year...

Missed this a few months back. MBDA Patent Offers New Glimpse Into Europe’s Hypersonic Weapon Plans Steve Trimble May 01, 2020 hypersonic missile interceptor MBDA has started working on solving some of the hardest challenges posed by development of an interceptor for maneuvering hypersonic missiles....

J. Tattersall wrote: Looks like EU is nowhere to be seen on European defence helicopter project and has to defer to NATO.

Some of the work that will go into this new helo has/will be developed under EU projects.

Slowly moving forward. Department of Defence targets new €200m, multi-purpose naval ship The Department of Defence has confirmed it intends to proceed with purchasing a new Multi-Role Vessel (MRV) for the Naval Service, which could be used as a hospital ship and would be capable of carrying troops a...

Five European allies sign on to build NATO’s next medium-lift helicopter STUTTGART, Germany – Five NATO member nations have signed on to build the alliance’s next-generation helicopter, planned to replace existing fleets starting in 2035. France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy and Greece each s...

Bit of a turn up, looks like Thales has won the 1.5 billion Euro contract to supply the combat system for the Germans new Mks 180 frigates.

https://www.reuters.com/article/thales- ... NL1N2I32RV

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muttbutt wrote:or just go get a mothballed Airbus A3XX what have you.

To fly the rangers to Mali? Or for what?

Various reasons...we keep getting caught out by not having the on call ability to bring or retrieve people/kit

The Irish Times reports that Irish officers are concerned about the intelligence implications of allowing UK-based aircraft to collect data over Ireland as they provide top cover for rescue missions. Reading a bit deeper it seems Irish Air Corps is actually concerned about the potential of one of i...

There has been talk of new C-295 MPA to replace the C-235 and even getting Gripen to allow QRA The C-295 MPA's have already been budgeted for and ordered...now there have been suggestions popping up that maybe we should keep the C-235's, strip their kit out and use them for transports, buy more 295...

Rheinmetall have held firing trials for the 130mm tank gun...on a chally II....

https://twitter.com/MarkUrban01/status/1277974129463812098 Also no participation in international exercises or missions until the entire unit is reformed. The KSK had "become partially independent" from the chain of command, with a "toxic leadership culture", Annegret Kramp-Karr...

What's this future ' interceptor'? Leasing Gripens (as the deliveries of the new one to the Swedish AF will start), or taking the Typhoons off the Austrian unenthusiastic hands as they don't seem to be able to support such a small fleet effectively ( a little bit of help from the RAF/ BAE could wor...

Wonder if this is going to be used as a pretext in future for corvid hit UK British government as in France managing on 3 ssn so we always follow France with cuts like to our surface fleet size or follow general lead anyway so rn can manage on just 3 in future,I wouldn't put it past them even tho F...