DF Commission Report

Aha…I can tell you are in the know. Does that include a dozen Gripens are are we going for the good reliable Dassault?

Bloody interesting

The NDP has already added two years onto it.

Ill be dammed they are going to give another pretend timeline tomorrow.

https://www.thejournal.ie/revised-defence-plan-deadlines-to-be-brought-to-cabinet-tomorrow-as-some-projects-pushed-back-defence-forces-6951979-Feb2026/

Lads, if there is a piece of advice I could give you that I've come to over the last 8 or so months is…let it go, this is what they want, the public wants so let them have it and when something inevitably goes tits up you'll know you were right but for your own health right now, just forget about it all.

Finally someone speaking sense.

People on here debating the merits of going for Gripens etc.

So far detached from reality its beyond funny.

The DoD are masters at this stuff. They've been doing it for decades.

DDF brass come and go but the culture and ethos of the DoD remains the same.

Theres a very obvious reason as to why they weren't included in the ToR of the CoDF despite every useless survey pointing to long standing systemic issues within.

But yeah, Shannon Air Force Base and Gripens are on the way. /Sarcasm.

There won't be any Gripen or Dassault jets. All the production is spoken for for the next decade or so…Any clever people able to come up with a Plan B ?

Oh sweet Summer child..

So how long after whatever deal ends the war before we get a statement saying that LoA2 was an unnecessary overreaction and that everything is now utterly fine and everyone else is happy to lets us freeload and lecture again.

Cause sure as hell the decision has been made already.

The updated DIP doc is on the website Sparky, it has updated project timelines within.

Was the new fixwing trainer aircraft announced before or is that new?

You have to hand it to the DoD but the sheer Brazen heads on them to bascially publish the same document yet again.

When Micheál Martin was asked yesterday whether he was embarrassed that we will need international help for the most basic security requirements for the EU presidency he literally said it's "not a big deal". The only non-microstate in Europe that can't provide the bare minimum protection to it's own citizens never mind VIPs.

"No big deal". Until something happens. What are they going to say then?

As far as I can see only the IT and Examiner bothered to notice the announcement, and both avoided any highlighting of the abject failure in terms of progressing LoA2. The IT focuses on the suggestion that we might adopt US style approaches towards foreign DF personnel getting citizenship (cue bullshit on social media), and the Examiner focuses on the fact that we’ve had two positive years in total numbers in the DF.

Both actual good news, but utterly missing the point. Niall from the Journal say he was briefed that the “deadline” for capability is 2030.