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How the Royal Navy has been looking at future MCM over the last year
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Interesting abstract appears in the Defence Forces review, which was launched yesterday.
The Maritime Community Value of a Naval Base on the East
Coast of Ireland
Lt/Cdr Stuart Laurence Armstrong
The Irish Naval Service is in the process of commissioning two Lake Class Inshore Patrol
Vessels which it has procured from the Royal New Zealand Navy. Accordingly, the Navy
intends to station these vessels on the East Coast of Ireland and establish a Forward
Operating Base there. This represents challenges but also the chance to harness the
significant opportunities that the East Coast has to offer. To date the port that has received
the majority of attention in this regard is Dún Laoghaire and as such this thesis focuses its
research on this region.
It is recognised from the outset that the logistical and technical aspects of the establishment
of the base are within the capabilities of the Defence Organisation. With this supposition
this thesis aims to inform and prepare the Navy from the perspective of the Maritime
Community incumbent on the East Coast centred around Dún Laoghaire. The Navy must
be aware of the Social, Industrial and Governance dynamics of the region, it is critical
that awareness of the needs and culture of the area are fundamentally understood before
it occupies and becomes of the Community itself. Not doing so risks exasperating any
current issues the community may have and devalues the opportunities that have attracted
the Navy there in the first place.
This thesis engaged with expert stakeholders form Industry, Local Government and
Defence. It has researched the Maritime Community of the East Coast and has provided
recommendations to help the Navy and the incumbent East Coast Community create
mutual value building up to and during the permanent presence of Naval Vessels in Dún
Laoghaire. A framework detailing how value and sustainability can be generated for all
East Coast Marine stakeholders was developed. The framework recognises three types of
Maritime Community constituents; Port Users, Policy Makers and Population and maps
out the forces acting on them.
The thesis started by looking at a changing Navy but discovered an East Coast Community
in the process of its own transition and its community constituents not knowing how
to communicate yet. The Defence Force is in a position to enter and compliment this
community, presenting the opportunity for the Forward Operating Base to positively
affect and become part of the incumbent East Cast CommunityFor now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.Comment
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Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence debate - Thursday, 1 Feb 2024 (oireachtas.ie)The inshore patrol vessels are undergoing a programme of work at the naval base. They are expected to become operational in 2024 with crew familiarisation and training. We have to do the naming and commissioning ceremonies. The Deputy was correct in saying that a forward base in Dún Laoghaire or elsewhere in Dublin is being seriously considered. We need a Dublin presence, certainly in a naval situation. Some 1.5 million people are living in Dublin. We need to be able to open up access for people to join the navy. To have young people see it in operation in their locality matters. One of the downsides of barracks closing is the loss of military tradition in recruitment. I am very conscious of that.For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.Comment
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IPVs to be named L.E. Aoibhinn and Gobnait.
I for one am delighted to see a return to hard for foreigners to pronounce Irish Female names.
Take that FS D'Entrecasteaux, HMCS Shawinigan and of course HMNZS Aotearoa.For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.Comment
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I think I will just go with the numbers........Originally posted by na grohmiti View Post"We will hold out until our last bullet is spent. Could do with some whiskey"
Radio transmission, siege of Jadotville DR Congo. September 1961.
Illegitimi non carborundumComment
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How about Toothless 1and 2."Let us be clear about three facts. First, all battles and all wars are won in the end by the infantryman. Secondly, the infantryman always bears the brunt. His casualties are heavier, he suffers greater extremes of discomfort and fatigue than the other arms. Thirdly, the art of the infantryman is less stereotyped and far harder to acquire in modern war than that of any other arm." ------- Field Marshall Wavell, April 1945.Comment
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Air Corps already using that for the new "MSA" aircraft (because MPA would have come with an ability to hunt the surface and sub-surface).Originally posted by apod View Post
Not normally one to criticise the NS, but the IPVs were intended as a stopgap between the end of the CPV and the selection of something with counter mine warfare capability, but it's been 4 years now since the CPVs were wadied, and the IPVs haven't sailed under their own power in the Northern Hemisphere once yet.
You'd think it would be easier to keep a small crewed, inshore vessel operational compared to one expected to work 200 miles off the coast?For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.Comment
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