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SAS Isandlwana (F146) is the second of four Valour-class frigates for the South African Navy built by the European South African Corvette Consortium. SAS Isandlwana was named after the Battle of Isandlwana at a ceremony held in Kiel in December 2002, by Deputy Defence Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.
The Thales MRR G-band air/surface search radar and the majority of the electronic warfare suite, such as the Grintek EWASION system and the Saab Avitronics radar support system will be replaced. The existing combat management system, including the Electro-optical tracker will be replaced, or upgraded by a new system.
LEDS-150 Land Electronic Defence System is an active protection system, developed by Saab Avitronics, a South African subsidiary of the Swedish aerospace and defence company, Saab. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The system is able to counter most known threats against armored vehicles with soft and hard kill methods.
The Ordnance Corps (ORD) (Irish: An Cór Ordanáis) is a combat support corps of the Irish Army, a branch of the Defence Forces, that has logistical and operational responsibility for military ordnance in Ireland. The logistical role of the Army Ordnance Corps is to provide technical support to the Defence Forces for the procurement, storage ...
In 2020, the Irish defence budget was €1.04bn. This included €780m on defence and €259m on army pensions. [24] Department of Defence spending was 0.27% of GDP in 2020 and 0.29% in 2019. [25] In 2022, the defence sector budget was €1.1bn and in July of that year the Irish government announced plans to increase this to €1.5bn by 2028.
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
The Department of Defence was created at the very first meeting of Dáil Éireann on 21 January 1919. The Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, passed soon after the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, provided it with a statutory basis.
In 2013 the Air Defence regiment also ceased to operate as a separate component, [6] and the Field Artillery regiments, known as Brigade Artillery Regiments, took over the Air Defence role. [6] Today the Artillery Corps comprises the Artillery School, located in the Defence Forces Training Centre (DFTC) in the Curragh Camp, and two Brigade ...