Originally posted by expat01
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Originally posted by Galloglass
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Say for example the DF buys 2 million 5.56mm ball a year. Should the DF buy the Irish made ones at €1 each or the UK made ones at 25c each?
Often the foreign companys have been running for decades (if not 100s of years). Ireland was largely missed by the industrial revolution and there is comparatively little heavy industry here.
There simply isn't the demand!
The DF did see the war coming ..... Finance didn't care .... they didn't even care when there was the biggest threat to Ireland.
Why did we want British aircraft instead of US? Spares!
Timoney is a strange one. Already.
But Ireland does have a fairly big arms industry. Granted a lot of it is probably dual-use (even anti-virus software is dual use).... But look at it this way, WW3 is going on, Ireland is neutral. UK says no you can't have BAe made ammo..... meanwhile in the Department of Trade in Dublin a military export licence for Intel to Lockheed Martin is refused ..... wonder how many missiles say Intel Inside on them?
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