On 23 June 1988, an Army Air Corps Westland Lynx, serial number XZ664, was shot down by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Aughanduff Mountain, County Armagh, in Northern Ireland. A unit of th
A British Army Lynx helicopter
On 11 February 1990, an active service unit of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade shot down a British Army Gazelle helicopter along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
1988 British Army Lynx shootdown
…in South Armagh and elsewhere. A Gazelle (serial number ZB687) was shot down by members of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade on 11 February 1990 between Augher and Derrygorry. On 13 February 1991, Lynx ZE380 was heavily damaged and brought down near Crossmaglen by an IRA unit using one DShK heavy machine gun and two GPMG…
British Army personnel inspecting the Gazelle's wreckage