IRA armament.

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PlasmaKrab said:
What about theRPG-7s ?

This report is worth a look:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...8-ireland1.htm

And I found this report from the Irish Times, of more interest than use perhaps :

The Irish Times 26 October 1999
New type of rocket launcher found
By Elaine Keogh, in Gormanstown, Co Meath

Garda� have uncovered another cache of weapons close to the spot where an underground firing range was discovered last week.

A rocket launcher of a kind not seen before in this State,
detonators and ammunition were found during continuing searches in the Gormanstown area of Co Meath yesterday.

The Garda officer in charge of the searches said the material was believed to belong to the dissident republican group calling itself the "Real IRA".

Chief Supt Michael Finnegan, head of the Meath/Louth Garda
division, said his team was satisfied that there was a direct link between the latest discovery and the finds made last week.

Yesterday's search was one of a series taking place following the discovery of the underground hide last week.

The items were found in sections of plastic piping which had been closed and then concealed amongst bales of hay in a covered hayshed. The shed was in a farmyard backing on to the Stamullen road and the cache is not thought to have been there for long.

Garda� called in an Army bomb disposal specialist to examine
three small packets of what they suspected to be power packs.

They later identified the material as power packs and detonators of a type never seen in arms finds on either side of the Border.

They had no markings to indicate where they may have originated.

This latest batch of equipment had been hidden in the bales of hay in a farmyard shed. Detectives believe the rocket-launcher is a Russian RPG 18 Mukha light anti-armour shoulder-held device.

There were about 40 electric detonators and a number of other items which were being examined by Army explosives experts.

Ballistics and fingerprinting officers from the Garda Forensic Science Unit in Dublin were also at the scene.

The launcher has Russian markings and is brand new and unused.

It is of a type that comes as a single unit and is loaded and ready for use. Once fired it would be discarded.

A Garda sergeant with the ballistics unit confirmed to the media that none of these items had been previously found in arsenals of the Provisional IRA.

Also recovered were 36 electrical detonators.