Modern vehicles of the Irish Army

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This is a partial list of the modern vehicles of the Irish Army (and other Irish Defence Forces).

Current vehicles

Name Origin Type Number Image Notes
Armoured fighting vehicle
Mowag Piranha IIIH[1]   Switzerland Armoured Personnel Carrier 80 * 45 APC's 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 40mm grenade machine gun in a Kongsberg Protector
* 6 Medium Reconnaissance Vehicles armed with Oto Melara 30mm autocannon
(9 APC's were converted to CRV's in 2014-2015)
RG-32M Light Tactical Armoured Vehicle (LTAV)[2][3]  South Africa Light Tactical Vehicle 27 Armed with pintle mounted 7.62mm machine gun or Kongsberg Protector RWS with the 12.7mm machine gun or 40mm grenade machine gun.
Scorpion CRV(T)[4]  United Kingdom Reconnaissance vehicle 6 (14) Armed with 1x76mm gun, co-ax 7.62mm machine gun and 7.62mm anti-air machine gun. Only 6 actually serviceable.
Sisu XA-180  Finland Armoured Personnel Carrier 2 Retired 2012
General service vehicle
Mitsubishi Pajero  Japan Off-road vehicle
Nissan Patrol[5]  Japan Off-road vehicle
Land Rover Defender  United Kingdom Off-road vehicle Field ambulances and funeral gun carriage tractor.
Ford Ranger  United States Off-road vehicle
Isuzu D-Max  Japan Off-road vehicle
Troop carrying vehicle
Scania R420 6x6[6]  Sweden Troop carrying vehicle
Iveco EuroCargo 4x4[7][8]  Italy Troop carrying vehicle
Mercedes-Benz 1117 4x4[8]  Germany Troop carrying vehicle 60
Leyland DAF T244 4x4  United Kingdom Artillery gun tractor and Troop carrying vehicle 55
Ford Transit Minibus  United States Minibus
Logistics
Scania P124CB 8x8 DROPS[9]  Sweden DROPS truck
Iveco Astra M320.42 W BAD 8x8 DROPS  Italy DROPS truck One fitted with a EKALIFT 2500 recovery body.
Other
Mowag Duro III   Switzerland Explosive Ordnance Disposal vehicle Armoured and unarmoured variants
Bandvagn 206  Sweden Air defence support role 7 Fitted with GIRAFFE Mk IV radars
ACMAT VLRA  France 3 Used by Army Ranger Wing
Ford F350 SRV  United States RECCE vehicle 12 Used by Army Ranger Wing
Aardvark MK4  United Kingdom Mine flail
DOK-ING MV-4  Croatia Remote mine flail 2 Tracked remote control mini flail
EOD Duro II   Switzerland Tactical military lorry
Unmanned aerial vehicle
Aeronautics Orbiter UAV  Israel Miniature UAV 3 (6) Used by Artillery Corps. Two systems where acquired in 2006 each system has 3 Orbiter UAV's. Two where destroyed in crashes and one was lost and never recovered.

Defence Forces aircraft

Note: All Irish Aircraft are operated by the Irish Air Corps. Main article: List of aircraft of the Irish Air Corps
Aircraft Origin Type Variant In service Notes
Maritime patrol
CASA CN-235 Spain maritime patrol MPA 100 2[10]
Transport
Learjet 45 United States VIP / air ambulance 1[11]
Surveillance
Britten-Norman Defender United Kingdom police air support Defender 4000 1[10] flown for the Garda Air Support Unit (GASU) [12]
Cessna Reims FR172 H France surveillance / utility 5[13] based on the Cessna 172[14]
Helicopters
AgustaWestland AW139 Italy utility 6[10]
Eurocopter EC135 France utility EC135 P2+/T2 4[10] two P2+s are flown for military purposes,[15] with two T2s for the GASU[16]
Trainer
Pilatus PC-9 Switzerland advanced trainer / CAS PC-9M 7[10] armament option include heavy machine gun or rocket pods.[17][18]

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Irish Army Vehicles – Mowag APC". Military.ie (Official site). Archived from the original on 26 November 2010.
  2. ↑ Lavery, Don (14 December 2008). ""South African firm wins Irish Army vehicle contract"". Irish Independent.
  3. ↑ "2010 Estimates for Defence and Army Pensions and Annual Output Statement" (Press release). Department of Defence. 17 June 2010. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
  4. ↑ "Irish Army Vehicles – Scorpion Armoured reconnaissance vehicle". Military.ie (Official IDF site). Archived from the original on 11 July 2008.
  5. ↑ "Irish Army Vehicles – General Service Vehicle". Military.ie (Official IDF site). Archived from the original on 20 February 2009.
  6. ↑ "Scania.ie – News – Irish Defence Forces €6 million order to SCANIA". September 2006. Archived from the original on 30 November 2007.
  7. ↑ "Irish Army Iveco EuroCargo 4x4". Flickr.
  8. 1 2 Karl Martin (2002). Irish Army Vehicles: Transport and Armour Since 1922. ISBN 978-0954341305.
  9. ↑ "Scania.ie – News – Irish Defence Forces Scania 8x8". August 2005. Archived from the original on 21 April 2006.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 "World Air Forces 2016 pg. 21". Flightglobal Insight. 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  11. ↑ "Learjet 45". military.ie. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  12. ↑ "Pilatus Britten Norman Defender". military.ie. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  13. ↑ "Cessna 172H". military.ie. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  14. ↑ "Irish Air Corps - REIMS (CESSNA) FR.172H AND FR.172K ROCKET". Retrieved 24 February 2015.
  15. ↑ "EC135 P2". military.ie. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  16. ↑ "EC135 T2". military.ie. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  17. ↑ "Fleet - Pilatus PC-9M Statistics". Military.ie (Official Defence Forces website).
  18. ↑ IrishAirPics.com - Description of live fire training exercise
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