Scenes from the Naming and Commissioning Ceremonies of the Naval Service Vessel LE James Joyce at the Carlisle Pier, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin yesterday.
Includes robots.
Via Popular Science:
L.E James Joyce is an “offshore patrol vessel.” These ships surveil the exclusive economic zone off Ireland’s coasts, extending toward Great Britain in the East and into the Atlantic in the west. It covers over 158,000 square miles in area. To cover all that territory, Joyce will fly drones. Which drones exactly haven’t been specified, but there are a few possibilities.
In 2013 the Irish Naval Service ran a practice exercise using Israeli-made Orbiter drones, the same ones Israel’s navy has launched from the decks of ships. The naval version of the Orbiter requires a small catapult on deck to launch it. SkyTec Ireland may also be developing a drone for the Irish fleet to use. Besides the drones in the sky, Joyce will also launch and control small robot submarines.…
Ireland’s James Joyce Will Control Flying Rpbots (PopularScience)
(Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie)
They were buzzing the pier walkers with them drones sunday.
These drones have been developed using the captive Palestinian population for field testing. This makes me feel sick.
Why ? Have you asked these Palestinians ? I’m sure their happy to be helping the economy and working in such a high tech industry.
Tool
Are you sure?
Ah get over yourself.
http://www.bdsmovement.net
Jaysus, colleges must have reopened – let’s post some Che imgurs, you guys!
Agreed Friscondo,
Until you get up off your ar$e and develop a high-tech electronics/arms/aeronautics industry, your govt will be buying such products from nations with a dubious record of using & selling such weapons (US, Israel, France, UK, etc.)
My primary thought is that this is the kind of mildly innovative, forward-thinking act which I often accuse Irish state bodies of failing to do.
So, fair play Irish Navy.
Did somebody mention drones?
these technologies could soon make aircraft carriers obsolete.
It’ll be a sad day when we have to retire our aircraft carriers, LE Imaginary and LE Make Believe.
i fear we’d run out of writers to name our ships after. imagine the LE Celia Aherne..
Tbf we are a long. long way away from that.
Before that would be the LE Marian Keys, the LE Baroness Saatchi & the LE Alan Shatter.
Hahaha. Surely the LE Josephine Hart?
The LE Augustine Martin…
I wonder who will get rich from outfitting this ship ….
FFS. What would have us do? Equip the navy with some second hand binoculars and a row boat in case we accidentally buy something from a company in some way related to this week’s internet hate figure?
Those aren’t the only two options.
I think you misunderstood my opaque point….
I have no problem with the state purchasing the best equipment from the best supplier , and doing their best to get the best price…
What I would have a problem with is… Middle men… if it happened that 6 months ago a FG minister picks up the phone to a FG crony and tells him that it might be beneficial if he sets up a new business, drone importation , then the state then buys the drone off the FG crony who in turn buys it off the supplier, costing the taxpayer x2 much as it should have …
I can describe how exactly this happened a few yrs ago regarding a road safety contract , but im not gonna do it here, too dangerous …
I have heard that the new Navy boats are pieces of rubbish, with gear hydraulics made out of string and blutack.
Didn’t the crew have to abandon ship because the engine was faulty & leaking oil and in danger of catching fire a few weeks ago?
Good job the govt have ordered another boat from the same crowd.
That’s mad Gusto. Where did you hear that?
Sure they’re only an international shipbuilding company making offshore patrol vessels for countries all around the world.
And the ship is outfitted by another company with plenty of international experience in this area.
Yep….real Arthur Daly’s if I ever heard of them…
i hope the navy get a receipt and a full warranty for them drones:
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/missing-chad-drone-may-have-tried-to-fly-home-26497563.html
Official footage of the first test here at 1.21…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d5Co-6KtLI
Think someone needs a cup of Cop-On
Third pic.
Lads playing invisible trumpets?
Vaping imho
Bosun whistles, I expect.
Invisible trumpets
air-bugling
Hornless tooting.
All part of the very deliberate and carefully managed increase in PR of our defense forces over the last number of years.
You’ll also notice how the term “Armed Forces” will gradually replace “Defense Forces”.
All the little armchair generals in dead end middle management jobs can look forward to watching us move towards joining NATO in a few years. You get your little peckers hard then.
And? So what if we did join Nato?
We’d be required to quadruple our defense spending for one…so taking money from other services.
We have this chat every few weeks. Don’t you understand? We need to have an expensive wage bill from a not needed armed force. It’s tradition.
And… and we might be invaded and my cousin and the IRA and…
We have perfectly running hospitals and schools and no waiting lists for housing. As long as our “navy” has drones.
I hope we won’t have to have this conversation again!!
don’t you understand? we’re broke. we need to invade the sh1t out of someone weaker and richer than us. preferably somewhere sunny. somewhere handy to get to that ryanair fly into, that sort of thing. lichtenstein, i’m looking at you..
Sigh….. our defense forces do grownup work in some seriously dodgy parts of the world.
Anything wrong with having the appropriate kit to get a job done?
What’s that? The defence forces are spending money on modern equipment? Well clearly it’s all part of a plan to join NATO and send our troops overseas to further the intersets of Big Pharma and the One World Government.
They’ll be microchipping our children and conscripting them into the EU Army before you can say lizard people.
You been spying on me, Mr. T? I’m a grower not a shower.
– ask your mother. i am sure she’s not keen on learning iraqi/afgan/syrian village name where your helicopter got blown up.
(that was to Liam)
But in the meantime, we expect America and UK to protect us if anything ever happened to us. It’s a bit miserly and sleveen-ish.
Slightly off the topic of NATO m/ship per se, presuming the chances of this country being invaded are low, at the least should we not have the capability to defend our air space from a hijacked jet. Or do we let the RAF do that for us?
‘Course we do, while we spout poo from our barstools about Perfidious Albion.
Pardon naughty word, please
‘Course we do, while we spout sh1te from our barstools about Perfidious Albion.
…I wonder who was Minister of Defense when these drones were commissioned?
*Cross fingers that it was Alan Shatter so all bisted’s dreams might come true*
…perfidious zion
Quick Google yields the right result – Jew Panic!
To protect our “exclusive economic zone” ? You dont need a warship for that, all the portuguese, spanish, french and russian trawlers are above in killybegs, you can drive there, be there in 2.5 hour,s no bother.
Its a warship, for going to war with.