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Sniper rifle: 7.62×51mm NATO: The AI 92 Sniper Rifle entered Irish Army service in 1992. [2] Accuracy International AWM United Kingdom: Sniper rifle: 8.6×70mm (.338 LM) The AWM entered service in 2011. The Irish Army version is chambered for the .338 Lapua Magnum round. [3] Machine guns; FN MAG Belgium: General-purpose machine gun: 7.62×51mm ...
Six rifles found in a car stopped at permanent British Army checkpoint on the main Dublin-Road in 1988, Libyan connection suspected. [37] [38] Example found in a hidden IRA arms dump in Newry, County Down, in 1989. [39] Weapons described as "Czech versions" of the AK-47/AKM were reportedly part of mid-1980s arms shipments from Libya. [5] SIG SG 540
Semi-automatic rifle: Nazi Germany [16] Assault rifles AK-47: 7.62×39mm: Assault rifle Soviet Union [17] AKM: 7.62×39mm: Assault rifle Soviet Union [18] AK-63: 7.62×39mm: Assault rifle Hungary: Intercepted as part of an arms shipment in 1995. [14] M16: 5.56×45mm NATO: Assault rifle United States: CAR-15 Commando: 5.56×45mm NATO: Assault ...
In 2014, the Irish Army began a modernisation programme to upgrade their Steyr AUG A1s, which was possible due to the modularity of the AUG. The result was the Steyr AUG Mod 14, and on the same year the army began issuing the rifle to its operational units. [100]
The Royal Irish Rifles (became the Royal Ulster Rifles from 1 January 1921) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army, first created in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot and the 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot.
In May 1970, Irish politicians Charles Haughey, Neil Blaney, and John Kelly, Irish Army Captain James Kelly, and Belgian businessman Albert Luykx were acquitted during the Arms Crisis of smuggling weapons to the IRA during the beginning of the conflict. In 1971, the IRA receives its first consignments of Armalite rifles.
Irish Army. 1st Brigade, at Collins Barracks in Cork; ... Since 1989 the service rifle for the Army is the Austrian-made Steyr AUG 5.56 mm assault rifle ...
However they were not part of the Irish army and were not supported by the Irish government and so will be left out of this list. Of note is that Ireland got a lot of British WWI weapons due to conflicts with the United Kingdom just after WWI such as the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War when a lot of these weapons would have been ...