Troop carriers and nuclear suits among 9,500 items disposed of by Defence Forces in a year

The Defence Forces said the list, which covered October 2021 until September last year, was particularly long because the work of its boards of survey had been heavily restricted before then by the Covid-19 pandemic. File picture: Kieran Clancy

The Defence Forces wrote off more than 9,500 individual items of equipment in the space of a year as damaged beyond use, uneconomical to repair, lost, or no longer of use.

The enormous inventory included dozens of old military trucks and troop carriers, a prisoner transport vehicle, inflatable life rafts, parts for old weapons, and knives with the logo of the Defence Forces.