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* 45 armoured personnel carriers armed with 12.7mm machine gun & co-ax 7.62mm machine gun * 8 command vehicles armed with 12.7mm machine gun & co-ax 7.62mm machine gun * 2 ambulances * 1 recovery vehicle * 18 close reconnaissance vehicles armed with the 12.7mm machine gun or a 40 mm automatic grenade launcher in a Kongsberg Protector (RWS)
The Defence Forces (Irish: Fórsaí Cosanta, [7] officially styled Óglaigh na hÉireann) [8] [9] [Note 1] are the armed forces of Ireland. They encompass the Army, Air Corps, Naval Service, and Reserve Defence Forces. The Supreme Commander of the Defence Forces is the President of Ireland. [10]
The Irish Army (Irish: an tArm) is the land component of the Defence Forces of Ireland. [5] The Irish Army has an active establishment of 7,520, and a reserve establishment of 3,869. Like other components of the Defence Forces, the Irish Army has struggled to maintain strength and as of April 2023 [update] has only 6,322 active personnel, and ...
Example found by Irish security forces at Buncrana in County Donegal in 1976, serial number traced to Harrison Network. [24] Example also demonstrated at an IRA training camp in 1983. [1] Beretta BM 59: 7.62×51mm NATO: Semi-automatic rifle Italy [25] FN Model 1949: 7×57mm Mauser: Semi-automatic rifle Belgium: Surplus Venezuelan contract ...
During the Irish Civil War thirteen Rolls-Royce armoured cars armed with Vickers .303 machine guns [1] were handed over to the Irish National Army by the British government. . All were in service with the Irish Defence Forces until after 1945, when following the end of The Emergency they were phased out as the peacetime army shr
Military equipment of the Republic of Ireland includes all military equipment designed, produced, or operated by the Republic of Ireland. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
The Army Ranger Wing (ARW) (Irish: Sciathán Fianóglach an Airm, [6] "SFA") is the special operations force of the Irish Defence Forces, the military of Ireland.It is a branch of the Irish Army, it also selects personnel from the Naval Service and Air Corps.
At a time when the Provisional IRA seemed replete with Armalites, the INLA was mainly armed with shotguns, which the rank and file wryly took to calling "Costello-ites" after their leader. The INLA's main source of arms early on was from sympathizers in the Middle East, from where they imported a contingent of AK-pattern rifles in 1978 and ...