IRA schießen Sie die britische Armee Luchs -Hubschrauber (Irland, 1988)

>On 23 June 1988, Army Air Corps Lynx helicopter XZ664 departed from the British barracks at Crossmaglen toward its base at Bessbrook Mill. The pilot was Royal Navy Lieutenant David Richardson, attached to the Army Air Corps 665 sq. Meanwhile, a 12-man strong IRA unit, hidden in the slopes of Aughanduff Mountain and armed with two DShK heavy machine guns, three FN MAG machine guns and AK-47 assault rifles waited for the Lynx, aware of the route usually taken by the helicopters coming in from Crossmaglen.

>At 12:55, some five kilometres from Silverbridge, as they approached the 234-metre high hill where the IRA men had taken positions, the aircraft was hit by 15 armour-piercing and incendiary rounds on its fuselage and rotors, and got into a spin. Control cables were cut, and one of the engines shut-down. The pilot made a hard landing in an open field near Cashel Lough Upper, in which one member of the crew was injured.

>The IRA team, armed with machine guns and an anti-tank rocket launcher, searched for the crash site to finish the helicopter and its crew off, but they were unable to find it. The area was eventually secured by British Army patrols, and by the arrival of another Lynx carrying on an Airborne Reaction Force (ARF). The badly damaged Lynx was lifted off by a Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter. The incident marked the first time the IRA used the DShK heavy-machine guns smuggled from Libya against British forces.

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