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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 NATO: The FN MAG entered service in 1964 with the Defence Forces and is in use with all service branches and a number of Army Corps.
Pages in category "Military equipment of the Republic of Ireland" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
British licensed-built L7 version captured from a British Army unit in Tyrone in 1992. [90] M2 Browning.50 BMG: Heavy machine gun United States: First publicly displayed by the IRA in 1977. [91] IRA believed to have smuggled at least two examples into Ireland and used in several attacks on British helicopters in the 1980s. [90]
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Their Marxism made them beyond help from Catholic Irish-America, who had traditionally been a lifeline for funds and weapons for Irish republicans engaged in armed struggle. At a time when the Provisional IRA seemed replete with Armalites , the INLA was mainly armed with shotguns, which the rank and file wryly took to calling "Costello-ites ...
The Irish Army (Irish: an tArm) is the land component of the Defence Forces of Ireland. [5] As well as maintaining its primary roles of defending the State and internal security within the State, since 1958 the Army has had a continuous presence in peacekeeping missions around the world. The Irish Army is organised into two brigades.
The modern Irish Army uniform is based on the layer principle, and is designed to provide soldiers in the Irish Army with the right degree of protection for any operational environment. [ citation needed ]
List of equipment of the Irish Army; U. Modern Irish Army uniform This page was last edited on 5 September 2013, at 21:21 (UTC). ...