Mustapha - you are correct - the QSP stuff gives you a bye on the training and allows you to go straight for the test. However, you will need to use a civvy aircraft for the IR since the mil (at the moment) won't allow you to use yours, even if it is an EASA registered one - therefore you will need to use an ATO and get a type rating . This is what most of the guys and girls who went to Bristow from SAR had to do - get a twin squirrel rating and then the IR test.
Lima Juliet - I get the ATPL licence thing compared to our mil groundschool but anyone who has an unrestricted mil instrument rating will have an almost identical test for their civ IR as they would for their IRT - it makes no sense not to recognise the mil one.