The thing about overseas sales is that you effectively have to be cynical and stop pretending that neutrality is anything but a sham, such as Sweden and Switzerland do. They are quite happy to sell arms to all and sundry, while maintaining a face of neutrality and they maintain strong military forces themselves.
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
T[h]anks or no t[h]anks
Collapse
X
-
Hi All
Given the title of this thread I had thought it would have been a discussion about whether or not Ireland, as part of it’s National Defence strategy, should include Armour as part of it’s OOB?
Following on from that I would have expected to see a debate about whether or not we have a requirement for MBT’s? If we do is it politically possible to acquire them (personally I think not - but you never know. After all if someone had asked me 8 years ago if would AIB be nationalized I would have said not in a thousand years! )
If the consensus opinion is “Yes in an ideal world it would be desirable to have some form of Armour” then why are we not discussing what kind of armour we need? What is the role for armour in our 2 Brigade structure ? once the role has been defined what vehicles match the requirement? And then finally once we have all agreed that we need hover tanks with dual 120Mm Canons and a Klingon cloaking device is it politically possible to get them and can we afford them. (ultimately we end up with a compromise and replace the Scorps with CV90’s)
Also if I may, can people please stop pointing out that the current role of the Cavalry is Reece and that we therefore have no requirement for armour of any sort other than a few more MRVs? This kind of post ruins everyones hovertank buzz and really is not appreciated at all I mean seriously you can’t let too much reality cloud a debate about Tanks and Ireland.
OK that’s me done so just to get this thread back on track.
Do we need Armour – Yes
What would we like (Leo 2 please about 24 plus command vehicles recovery vehicles etc.)
Is that realistic? – Not a hope
So what’s our second best option? (The role by the way is light armour – fire support, overwatch, and scaring the crap out of anyone that points an AK at us redundancy in terms of future capability, corporate knowledge of armour etc )
IMHO contenders are CV90, French car with the 105, Italian Cantauro etc.
Thanks and yes it IS a slow day in the office
- Likes 5
Comment
-
They did that already. It's call the Stryker MGS and even the Americans have realised it's shit. Everything from cracking armour, with a Mowag variant? Never! To it toppling right on over.
At the end of the day, if you want to put a tank gun on something, put it on a tank.
- Likes 1
Comment
-
Yeah I know about the MGS, but I wonder how the Danes get on with the DF90 https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7139/7...0e421769_z.jpg or the oto merela Hitfact 105 http://www.warwheels.net/images/Cent...mTurretOTO.jpg
Comment
-
I don't understand why there are occasional comments to the effect that "Neutrality" is a sham on the part of countries such as Sweden as they are manufacturers of military equipment. The two have NOTHING to do with each other. In fact so far as I know, to be "recognised" as a Neutral, a country must show itself "willing" to put up a fight in defence of it's policy. Easier done if you manufacture your own equipment. I believe Sweden does not export ANYTHING to a country if is is actually engaged in a war, a policy that benefited Ireland when we purchased the Unimog APC's which were "embargoed" by Sweden when the original purchaser got involved in "hostilities"Last edited by Galloglass; 13 October 2014, 03:14.
- Likes 2
Comment
-
Originally posted by Galloglass View Post[ATTACH]7821[/ATTACH]
a policy that benefited Ireland when we purchased the Unimog APC's which were "embargoed" by Sweden when the original purchaser got involved in "hostilities"
- Likes 4
Comment
Comment