On 19 March 1994, a British Army Lynx helicopter was shot down by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. A unit of the IRA's South Armagh Brigade fired a heavy improvised mortar at
A British Army Lynx helicopter
IRA barrack buster mortar showing base plate and detonator wires
The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. It was organised into two battalions, one around Jonesborough and another around
1994 British Army Lynx shootdown
…On 19 March 1994, a British Army Lynx helicopter was shot down by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Northern Ireland. A unit of the IRA's South Armagh Brigade fired a heavy improvised mortar at the British Army base in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. The mortar round hit and shot down the helicopter, serial number…
The SNIPER AT WORK sign in South Armagh became a republican icon of the Troubles
Borucki sangar, a British army outpost in Crossmaglen with a republican flag on top during an Ógra Shinn Féin protest some time before its removal in 2000
Memorial in Cullyhanna