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  • The number of techncial personnel is not determined by the number of aircraft, rather by the size of the entire system. Lads turning spanners per hull, on the ramp,assuming nothing goes pear shaped on the turnaround, is around three or four; engineering staff dealing with tech stuff in the head office is probably the same again. You are dealing with airworthiness/modifcations/armament/overhaul/engine and airframe structural specialists and so on.Now,you can buy in a lot of that as part of the package,ie, you lease the Gripen,you get the Swedish shed-dwellers to deal with the indoor engineering and let the Irish do the ramp stuff. Hangar work soaks up manpower like you wouldn't believe and if you are getting into fitting out and manning workshops for overhauling subassemblies like pumps,valves, motors and so,then you start ramping up the manpower requirement like crazy,which is where the accountants start whining and the Minister starts tapping the table and the other capbadges start making snide remarks about costs. So,you have to think carefully about what you buy in.

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    • "I read the article in Forbes. "

      Ireland’s Air Force Badly Needs Fighter Jets
      For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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      • Originally posted by Anzac View Post
        You would then need 18 aircraft in the fleet so as to have those 24 pilots qualified as Basic Mission Ready based on the 1:1.25 ratio if you were trying an RAF level QRA capability.
        How are Hungary and Czechia pulling it off with 12? Do we know?

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        • Originally posted by na grohmiti View Post
          I wonder if this is an indication that the Multinationals with FDI in Ireland are asking questions about Irish Security Policies given that Forbes are now reporting on it?
          It was the year of fire...the year of destruction...the year we took back what was ours.
          It was the year of rebirth...the year of great sadness...the year of pain...and the year of joy.
          It was a new age...It was the end of history.
          It was the year everything changed.

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          • Originally posted by Graylion View Post
            How are Hungary and Czechia pulling it off with 12? Do we know?
            Nato Overlap as they have friendlies on their eastern border?
            For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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            • Sounds like the RAF had to intercept a Ryanair Poland-Dublin flight today over North Sea

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              • Originally posted by DeV View Post
                https://twitter.com/air_intel/status...914793472?s=21

                Sounds like the RAF had to intercept a Ryanair Poland-Dublin flight today over North Sea
                Aren't we lucky that nothing like that could ever happen here.....
                For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                • Aircraft Squawked 7700 and met by police at remote stand in Stansted

                  It was the year of fire...the year of destruction...the year we took back what was ours.
                  It was the year of rebirth...the year of great sadness...the year of pain...and the year of joy.
                  It was a new age...It was the end of history.
                  It was the year everything changed.

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                  • Originally posted by na grohmiti View Post
                    maybe the DOD can start a go fund me page for the jets
                    Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

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                    • Originally posted by CTU View Post
                      Aircraft Squawked 7700 and met by police at remote stand in Stansted

                      Probably something like this.
                      For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                      • that's the kind of guy you unveil the crash axe for...

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                        • What would happen if just before entering IAA controlled airspace a Russian Bear turned on his transponder, contacted Shannon Control saying he was an unarmed aircraft on a navigation exercise and would like to transit across Ireland?

                          Would the trailing armed RAF Typhoons be able to do the same?

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                          • Originally posted by EUFighter View Post
                            What would happen if just before entering IAA controlled airspace a Russian Bear turned on his transponder, contacted Shannon Control saying he was an unarmed aircraft on a navigation exercise and would like to transit across Ireland?

                            Would the trailing armed RAF Typhoons be able to do the same?
                            What is the likelihood of either aircraft being unarmed?
                            For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                            • Originally posted by na grohmiti View Post
                              What is the likelihood of either aircraft being unarmed?
                              Well the Typhoons would definitely be armed

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                              • Originally posted by EUFighter View Post
                                What would happen if just before entering IAA controlled airspace a Russian Bear turned on his transponder, contacted Shannon Control saying he was an unarmed aircraft on a navigation exercise and would like to transit across Ireland?

                                Would the trailing armed RAF Typhoons be able to do the same?
                                It might be unarmed with traditional weapons, but "armed" with electronic warfare, sigint and comint gear. Which is becoming more of an issue for force planners in the air defence domain.

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