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Irish Air Corps / Re: Air Corps to provide Heli Ambulance Service to HSE.

« on: March 10, 2008, 12:18:12 am »

Everytime a helicopter is painted green or camoflage a man drowns at sea...FACT.

this fact provided by the Irish Anti-War Movement/Friends of the Taliban

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Irish Air Corps / Re: Air Corps to provide Heli Ambulance Service to HSE.

« on: March 09, 2008, 07:21:01 pm »

So much for the army having a new level of air support.

If someone took 80m or so of capital investment out of the Health Care budget and put it into the Defence Forces someone might cry fowl.

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Air Corps News / Irish Mail on Sunday 26-8-07

« on: August 30, 2007, 10:10:11 pm »

Shortly after someone thinks of painting "Orphan Rescue" on the wings.

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Air Corps News / Irish Mail on Sunday 26-8-07

« on: August 28, 2007, 02:11:26 pm »

There is approximately one article about the lack of Air Defence capability a year.

So far the impact on public opinion has paled in comparison to the upset about Kerry Katona's dog's new collar.

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Irish Air Corps / Suggested names for the AB139

« on: April 13, 2006, 11:17:02 pm »

Loeg - Cuchulain's charioteer.

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Irish Air Corps / short range anti aircraft weapon?!

« on: May 03, 2005, 07:32:26 pm »

Quote (pilatus @ 03 May 2005,05:08)

thanks all!i thought it was most likely an error in the article!but for missions abroad no matter the threat from aircraft there should be shoulder launched weapons(dedicated not anti tank)available for use!i was reading in ireland on sunday about army ops in the congo in the 50's and it mentions that the irish army shot down a jet fighter!i never heard of this before!??does anybody know what type it was?im thinking along the lines of an L29delfin or one of the old sukhoi types? '>

News to me the only enemy airpower I ever heard of was one Fouga Magister flown by a deranged Belgian mercenary which I never heard of getting shot down.
Especially since we had Canberras and J29s on our side.

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Irish Air Corps / short range anti aircraft weapon?!

« on: May 03, 2005, 01:02:27 pm »

GTTC: Rigid aluminium wouldnt do it, you'd need something at least as dense as steel and more than 4mm thick to have a hope of detonating the warhead.
I have seen the diameter of the entry hole for detonated heatrounds and I can assure you it is the size of a €2 coin.

The RPGs used in Somalia and A-Stan were modified with a simple timed HE warhead that detonated after a set flightime, they did their damage via fragmentation not direct penetration.
HMGs and 23mm guns are far superior anti aircraft weapons to RCLs and ATGMs.

@Fouga: Firstly they would bill it as something its not, secondly the Javelin has no specific anti air capacity other than it can lock onto targets that are above ground level.
Even if you managed to switch from the default top attack mode and fire the missile at a target that was visible and slow enough you'd have extremely poor odds of getting a kill.
On the other hand as GTTC has helpfully pointed out, Heavy calibre and small arms fire are massively effective against even armoured aircraft and a whole lot cheaper than a Javelin round.
Which is precisely why the Javelin has no anti-aircraft role in the Defence Forces.

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Irish Air Corps / short range anti aircraft weapon?!

« on: May 02, 2005, 09:20:49 pm »

Yeah as an anti tank weapon...

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Irish Air Corps / short range anti aircraft weapon?!

« on: May 02, 2005, 04:33:36 pm »

No more than the Milan was, it just means that if a slow target is in the air you can still aim at it and the warhead will definitely take it out but it should in no way be considered an air defence asset.

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Irish Air Corps / short range anti aircraft weapon?!

« on: May 02, 2005, 01:56:30 pm »

Its true that the Carl Gustav has been used to damage Helicopters in the past as has the Venerable RPG-7 series.

But the odds of a helicopter giving you a clear shot are minimal, plus most parts of most helis wouldn't be dense enough to detonate the HEAT round of a SRAAW, so it would pass straight through leaving a hole about the size of a €2 coin.
All in all unless you were up against Hinds or Apaches youve better odds with a GPMG than a SRAAW.

And at least the Carl Gustav is reloadable and more likely to be deployed far enough away to have a safe firing angle...the SRAAW is just about accurate at 300m on a good day.

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Irish Air Corps / short range anti aircraft weapon?!

« on: May 02, 2005, 10:59:29 am »

An Cosantors shockingly poor editing strikes again. The only time an aircraft needs to fear a Sraaw is when its parked on the ramp (ref: the Ivory Coast Airforce '> )

Stinger missiles have been actively considered in the recent past as an addition to the infantry battalion ORBAT, and would fit nicely on the PC-9 in the Anti helicopter role.

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Irish Air Corps / AIII/Dauphin Roundels and Lettering

« on: April 27, 2005, 06:32:03 pm »

http://shadders.com/IDPforum/index.php

For any queries questions or comments about the pack.

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Irish Air Corps / What could be....

« on: April 27, 2005, 06:23:10 pm »

Tactical flying is one question Scorpy, but what about aircraft, and who's going to maintain them.

You certainly won't catch me raising any objection to IAC helos and fixed wing (See my post on tactical use of turborops and Radar Equipped assets) operating overseas.

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Irish Air Corps / What could be....

« on: April 24, 2005, 12:13:51 pm »

The UN is a sham, the security council is a selection of the countries most likely to be instigating trouble.

Bring on the League of Democratic States.

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Irish Air Corps / Eurocopter EC135 Helicopter

« on: April 22, 2005, 08:22:36 am »

Quote (Lurk @ 21 April 2005,13:31)

It will certainly make ordering spares easier   I wonder how this bodes for the McAlpine Techie residing at Baldonnel hardly makes sense to have two seperate maintenance teams working on 4 helicopters of the same type....or does it? Garda Helis are Turbomeca engines, with Mc Alpine Fit, Air Corps new EC 135s are Pratt & Whitney Eurocopter build. Different aircraft, similar name.

Bugger