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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 ...
Loaded .303 rifles found by Irish security forces at an IRA training camp in Kilkelly, County Mayo, as late as 1985; Lee-Enfield reportedly still in active use in sniper role in late 1980s. [4] [15] Gewehr 98: 7.92×57mm Mauser: Bolt action rifle German Empire [16] [17] M1 carbine.30 Carbine: Semi-automatic Carbine United States [18] [13] M1 Garand
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
The ARW in its domestic counter terrorism role trains and deploys with the Garda Síochána (national police) specialist armed intervention unit, the Emergency Response Unit (ERU). [10] In February 2022, the Commission on the Defence Forces report recommended that the ARW be renamed the Ireland Special Operations Force (IRL-SOF). [11]
Pages in category "Military equipment of the Republic of Ireland" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Military Aviation in Ireland, 1921-45. University College Dublin Press. ISBN 9781906359485. MacCarron, Donal (2012). The Irish Defence Forces since 1922. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781780963914. McIvor, Aidan (1994). A History of the Irish Naval Service. Irish Academic Press. ISBN 9780716525233