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Presumably the tender process means that using the charter company means the DF has less worries.
After the issue with the Helicopters in Chad they will leave it to the Pros.
we do exactly the same thing when we don't have Air Troopers available - we went to Canada with Air Berlin and came back with Thomas Cook.
what the Irish DF are doing makes perfect, cost effective sense.
RGJ
...Once a Rifleman - Always a Rifleman...Celer et Audax
Presumably the tender process means that using the charter company means the DF has less worries.
After the issue with the Helicopters in Chad they will leave it to the Pros.
surely the UN must have some rights when it comes to deploying UAV's over their own AOR?
Thats part of the problem when the A.O. is sandwiched smack up against an International border such as between Northern Israel & Southern Lebanon, and also a reason for U.N.I.F.I.L. to be targeted by the "Hezzies" who don't want anybody to know what they are up to in the area.
are the Irish DF not deploying any air assets to UNIFIL?
ITALAIR provided any necessary air assets to UNIFIL in the past.
The Beauty of UN missions like this is each contingint bring the assets they are best capable of providing, to make a composite formation.
In the past Ireland provided transport or Logs formations to Somalia and Kosovo. There was definitely a unit made up of just MPs in KFOR also.
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.
fear of attack from observing one of the factions is not a reason not to deploy such assets - surely it is the very reason to deploy such assets in the first instance.
RGJ
...Once a Rifleman - Always a Rifleman...Celer et Audax
fear of attack from observing one of the factions is not a reason not to deploy such assets - surely it is the very reason to deploy such assets in the first instance.
Jaysus RG, it isn't attacking them we are worried about, its bumping off them that's the problem.
Your questions can all be answered by MANDATE MANDATE MANDATE.
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.
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