@Awkward Seal: But once moving , they can revert to wind power .

@Ken Hayden:
As long as they’re flying downwind…

@Mick Jordan: A. They have Russia (who has attacked them before) on their doorstep. B. Enlighten us on how you figure the PC9 has a piston engine?

@Mick Jordan: 54 hornets isn’t much of a deterrent to the Russian airforce, however I take your point, we don’t need an air core really.

@Mick Jordan: F18 Hornets have a unit price of $70.5 million new. How many do you want us to buy?

@Chemical Brothers: if your talking about ww2 your going to have to give Germany a mention , Russia’s the big bad wolf these days they didn’t help beat Germany , they didn’t battle the brown lads , there just commis , we have the uk on our doorstep who invaded us before , don’t bloody forget

@Mick Jordan: we dont have, and dont claim to have, an air defense capability. Having said that we do have sam sites on key buildings in main city centres. Take a close look at liberty hall in dublin next time you’re there

@Keith Fay: Sam sites in Dublin city centre ?? You’re talking through your tin foil hat.

@Mick Jordan: they’re turbine engines but I get your point

@An bhearna: i read it in an irish air corps book, pictures in there too

@Keith Fay: they may deploy portable air defence options when there is a significant security risk e.g. EU council meetings but there are no permanent air defence installations in Dublin city

@Mick Jordan: Take a look at the size of the Finnish Airspace, and compare it to Irish Airspace

@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: My point is that a country with approx the same size population and similar size economy to ours can afford to have a decent sized military as well as a much higher standard of living for the ordinary populace than we do. We should learn from them how they manage it, because our lot most certainly can’t.

@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: we have a much greater fiscal space, we can’t control that either

turboprops- jet engines with props on the end…not pistons to be fair

@Mick Jordan: So you’d like 54 multimillion jets lying idle in Baldonnell ? Just to satisfy your juvenile envy ? Finland is next to Russia in case you didn’t notice. And how do you think they can afford it. ? High taxes. But you’d be first to bitch about that too.

@Paul Mc Nulty: If the High taxes were being spent to give us a far superior standard of living then there would be very little bitching as you put it. But as it is we already have some of the highest Income tax rates in the EU and very little to show for them.

@Conor O’Neill: only someone like batman is cape able.

@Conor O’Neill: Yeah they are but they’d have to try catch up with them first, which would never happen.

@Conor O’Neill: Yes they have the RAFs phone number

@Conor O’Neill: No. We don’t have an air force that would do that type of thing. We have and air corps attached to the army who’s primary role is flight training, transport and fishery protection. In the 70′s the US offered us free F4 phantoms and the means to take care of them, we said no unfortunately. We still have a fighter squadron that exists on paper that was very modern during ww2, at that time we operated hawker hurricanes and others i can’t remember but today …. no air force.

@Boganity: literally
ˈlɪt(ə)rəli/
adverb
in a literal manner or sense; exactly.
“the driver took it literally when asked to go straight over the roundabout”
synonyms: verbatim, word for word, line for line, letter for letter, to the letter.
informal
used for emphasis while not being literally true.
“I have received literally thousands of letters”

@Mark L: This was added later, I looked at the article first at about 6.45… Articles do get edited sometime..,

@Boganity: Numerically

@Lad: I literally read your comment