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In 1935, 4 Irish Peerless armoured hulls were mounted on modified Leyland Terrier 6x4 chassis. A year later their twin turrets were replaced by a single Landsverk L60 tank turret. This new vehicle was known as the Leyland armoured car and remained in Irish service until the early 1980s.
Armoured fighting vehicles; Mowag Piranha IIIH [12] Switzerland: Armoured personnel carrier Armoured reconnaissance vehicle: 80 [13] [14] * 45 armoured personnel carriers 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
The 1st Armoured Cavalry Squadron was formed in 1998 by the amalgamation of the 1st Armoured Car Squadron and the reformed 1st Tank Squadron. 1st Armoured Cavalry Squadron is an independent unit that is stationed at The Curragh. [3] Disbanded (Defence Forces Re-org 2012) 4th Cavalry Squadron, Athlone (2012)
Armoured fighting vehicles of the Irish Army; T. Timoney (armoured personnel carrier) This page was last edited on 23 October 2022, at 13:00 (UTC). Text is ...
Leyland armoured car refers to four armoured cars, built between 1934 and 1940, which were used by the Irish Army. The first Leyland armoured car was built in 1934, and three more were built by 1940. The Leylands served with the Irish Army until 1972, and with the reserve An Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil (FCA) until the early 1980s.
The armoured car caught fire, though all three crew members survived. [81] On August 12, 1980, SLA militiamen attacked an Irish UNIFIL checkpoint at the village of At Tiri in southern Lebanon, [81] having been antagonised by a statement made by Brian Lenihan Snr, Ireland's minister for foreign affairs, which they perceived as supportive of the ...
The tank equipped the armoured reconnaissance regiments ... the British had a total of 14 Cromwell tanks: six of the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars Regiment and eight ...
In the early 1970s against the background of the escalating Troubles in Northern Ireland the Irish Government decided to expand the Irish Army. [1] In 1972 Séamus Timoney, a professor at University College Dublin (who had previously contributed to the design of the British FV601 Saladin and FV603 Saracen armoured vehicles) offered to design a new APC, based on requirements developed in ...