Barrack buster
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Barrack buster is the colloquial name given to several improvised mortars, developed in the 1990s by the engineering unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
IRA's Barrack Buster mortar
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
Barrack buster
…taking off from another base, were brought down by this type of mortar between March and July 1994 in South Armagh. Author Toby Harnden describes the 1994 shooting down of the Lynx as the most successful attack on a helicopter by the IRA during the Troubles. The barrel was usually attached to a hydraulic hoist towed by a tractor…
A British Army Lynx helicopter
IRA barrack buster mortar showing base plate and detonator wires