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Costings sought for massive expansion of Irish military including purchase of fighter jets (www.irishtimes.com)

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Under the proposals, the Irish Naval Service, which will soon be renamed the Irish Navy, will operate 12 ships, double the fleet. This would give Ireland “a defensive conventional maritime warfighting capability”.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

For Ireland it’s the the first time they start arming themselves seriously at all. Their waters were getting harrassed regularly by Russian ships.