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  • #61
    Originally posted by DeV View Post
    So the AC should get rid of all its other aircraft to pay for it?
    i think its possible that there might just be a feeling that Ireland ought to have the defence spending of a first world European state, rather than the defence spending of, say, Legoland...

    the PC-9M's should go, any deal to lease Gripen or F-16 will include the training package, so they are useless with such aircraft, and without such aircraft they are, err... useless.

    the learjet should be flogged off and the money put towards a general purpose cargo aircraft - C295/C-27J/C-130 - such an aircraft could do everything the LJ can do, if in less style and comfort, but also do a great deal of things the LJ cannot do.

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    • #62
      Originally posted by ropebag View Post
      the defence spending of, say, Legoland...
      Lets be honest, Legoland would kick our asses



      What are you cackling at, fatty? Too much pie, that's your problem.

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      • #63
        Damn Right

        Last edited by Flamingo; 25 June 2015, 23:21.
        'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
        'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
        Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
        He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
        http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html

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        • #64
          Always thought the PC-9s were a complete waste of money. No role whatsoever. Not now, not in the future.
          We need aircraft that can be used and we can get training overseas.
          Having a jet to primarily ferry government ministers is also a waste of money and hours. They can take aer fungus or ryanair. It's a vanity role that should only be looked at when the AC is fit for a military purpose and has cash to spare. Of course, the government would be content with the AC if they had "air corps 1" and that was "air corps 1 and only".

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          • #65
            Originally posted by expat01 View Post
            We need aircraft that can be used

            Add to that will be used...... Jet fighters won't be !

            1 the State couldn't afford the hours required to keep pilots current (never mind get them up to full capability
            2 we couldn't afford the required weapons
            3 we couldn't afford to deploy them overseas
            4 they can't do air ambulance, MATS, maritime surveillance, all the jobs the AC spends most of its time doing
            5 they would only be used in role a handful of times a year (a visit to QE2 (once in a lifetime), visit of U.S. president (there have been what 4 ever?), air inception (not even a monthly occurance).


            Having said the civvies may be deterred from air space infringement in Dublin if they were met by an AC aircraft (although it would have landed by the time it was on station).

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            • #66
              Your points 3 and 4 also apply to the PC9, and this aircraft does not even qualify for 5. It has no operational function whatsoever.

              While I think we should get fighters, I can't see it happening without a tripling of the budget.
              I disagree that we cannot afford to acquire or maintain fighters and their pilots, I do agree that the government is not going to spend on them and further agree that there are other priorities before acquiring them.
              I just said the PC9s, or any other single seat aircraft that can't shoot down or shoot ground are a waste of time and submit that a 6 gripens or F-16s would be a better investment, of more use however infrequently, than the PC-9s.

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              • #67
                if the IAC had had a deployable force of Gripen/F-16, would they have been sent, or would there have been calls to for them to be sent, to support Irish forces either in Chad or in the recent unpleasantness on the Golan?

                for the inevitable pedant, when countries deploy forces on UN operations, they often also send strictly natonal contingents that come soley under their own governmental control and are hosted by friendly or commercially negotiated nearby countries whose purpose is the assist that countries UN contingent should the poo start to fly.

                as an example, when UK forces were in Bosnia under UNPROFOR, there was also a UK contingent in Croatia with all the bangy-whizzy bits should the need have arisen. same with Lebannon in the early 80's with UK contingent forces being based in Cyprus.

                one can't help but recall that, for example, Irelands close friend France holds a great deal of diplomatic sway in Central Africa, and indeed that Irelands' close friend the UK has its own sovereign airbase in the eastern Med...

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                • #68
                  Originally posted by ropebag View Post
                  if the IAC had had a deployable force of Gripen/F-16, would they have been sent, or would there have been calls to for them to be sent, to support Irish forces either in Chad or in the recent unpleasantness on the Golan?
                  The current White Paper (2000) which is still in force, doesn't allow for the deployment of IAC overseas at present, let's hope that changes with the forthcoming WP.

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                  • #69
                    Originally posted by Dogwatch View Post
                    The current White Paper (2000) which is still in force, doesn't allow for the deployment of IAC overseas at present, let's hope that changes with the forthcoming WP.
                    doesn't allow, or doesn't forsee?

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by ropebag View Post
                      doesn't allow, or doesn't forsee?
                      Doesn't allow

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                      • #71
                        Nigeria seems to be buying a Squadron of Scorpions......Just saying.

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                        • #72
                          Originally posted by Galloglass View Post
                          Nigeria seems to be buying a Squadron of Scorpions......Just saying. [ATTACH]8019[/ATTACH]
                          Yeah for COIN operations, if they get aproval for the sale...

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                          • #73
                            They must have eventually spent all of that money that was hidden in those bank accounts.
                            "The dolphins were monkeys that didn't like the land, walked back to the water, went back from the sand."

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                            • #74
                              Originally posted by Galloglass View Post
                              Nigeria seems to be buying a Squadron of Scorpions......Just saying. [ATTACH]8019[/ATTACH]
                              Link doesn't seem to work?

                              Edit,

                              Presume its one of these:

                              The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is looking to buy 12 Scorpion jets from Textron AirLand to equip a single squadron in order to fight the Boko Haram insurgency gripping the country. Air Vice Marshal Rufus A Ojuawo, the director of operations for the Nigerian Air Force, said the NAF wants and needs the Scorpion and […]


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                              Last edited by Herald; 2 July 2015, 00:51.

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                              • #75
                                Originally posted by FMolloy View Post
                                They must have eventually spent all of that money that was hidden in those bank accounts.
                                Well their Irish relative didn't bother coming to collect it.
                                For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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