You can question whether its worth it financially, adding further systems that can be integrated, but the sensors they paid for only runs fire control on the single main gun from what I know.

Yeah the main gun is pretty good at distance, but the 20mm is man-operated, it is not integrated and the 76mm is not able to do close range point defence. The drone in your video is a Shahed probably style drone, not a 1m wide quadcopter within 500m.

How does the Beckett class's fire control operate the 20mm cannon?

look, just give the lads an autogyro and some tasers and it'll be grand.

Biznoz geniuz

I could be more gruntled.

Same article and The Journal yesterday

The Yeats was not in Dublin Bay from three reports I read, the drones flew out within 500m of it and covered 17km between sightings, so that kind of obfuscates the launch location, no?

Don't over-infer. People are also protective of their (perceived) property and don't want anything encroaching that affects their enjoyment of it (including value on disposal).

"That's no National Children's Hospital Ireland / Metrolink / BertieBowl... "

Oh there's the Outer Space Treaty, someone would need to check on that too, whether it prohibits nuking Dublin Bay from space, don't have time here.

Might need to leave the CTBT as well, even thought it wouldn't be a test.

In fact Ireland could start a space program, leave the NPT, build a nuke, and nuke the drones from space, and it wouldn't contravene the Triple Lock as far as I know.

His assumption their being "locally launched" means "there's probably operatives that are working within Ireland" is unfounded. Every chance they're ship launched.

But not sure why it is "unhinged "to assume land-launched as opposed to ship-launched, the challenge remains the same.

You made me listen to this now! He didn't use the word s"military-grade weapons." He said "they might have been military-standard drones" based on "eyewitness accounts". That is perfectly in line with all the facts so far reported and nothing unhinged about it given where they were encountered.

Article from EBRD helps illuminate

www.ebrd.com/home/what-we...

It is the **cost** and complexity of repair that should be the highlighted. Russia's cheap high explosive drone probably cost the same as a new SUV but the damage will probably take hundreds of millions to repair.

And RU doesn't appear to give a s**t. That's the neighbour Europe has.

Also:
""While the [LÉ William Butler Yeats] close to 12 nautical miles off the east coast at the time of the incident it is believed concerns for safety and the potential for shots falling on civilians – whether that be on land or with other ships in the area." "