The Shorts Blowpipe is a man-portable (MANPADS) surface-to-air missile that was in use with the British Army and Royal Marines from 1975 to 1985. It also...

Look up blowpipe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blowpipe may refer to: Blowpipe (missile), a man-portable surface-to-air missile Blowgun (also called...

rounds, and can be vehicle mounted. The missile is an updated version of the earlier Blowpipe of the 1970s. Blowpipe used a manual guidance system which proved...

Israeli Navy of the short range TV guided Blowpipe missile in the 1970s the IDAS system is the world's first missile which gives submarines the capability...

Army Rapier and Blowpipe missiles and ship-based 40 mm gunfire. On 12 June, HMS Glamorgan launched a Seacat at an incoming Exocet missile which may have...

mm) gun Bristol Bloodhound Blowpipe missile Javelin missile Rapier missile Sea Slug missile Sea Wolf missile Starstreak missile English Electric Thunderbird...

The main MANPADS used by both sides during the Falklands War was the Blowpipe missile.[citation needed] In late 1985, several groups, such as Free the Eagle...

A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched...

Defence Regiment / Rapier Missile FS.A Launcher x 12、Land Rover 101 Forward Control x 12 Air Defence Troop / Blowpipe Missile launchers x 12　Leyland 4-tonne...

down a GR.3 Harrier on a reconnaissance mission on Port Howard with a Blowpipe missile. The pilot, Flight Lieutenant Glover, bailed out, breaking his arm...

Thunderbird (missile) – In use till 1977 for mobile high-altitude air defence. Bloodhound (missile) – Fixed air defence in UK from 1958 till 1991. Blowpipe (missile)...

Henschel Hs 117, Hs 293 Ruhrstahl X-4 Wasserfall SS.11 ENTAC Malkara Blowpipe missile AT-1 Snapper AT-3 Sagger Vickers Vigilant Saab Rb 05 SSM-A-23 Dart...

Rapier is a surface-to-air missile developed for the British Army to replace their towed Bofors 40/L70 anti-aircraft guns. The system is unusual as it...

of its Blowpipe in 1975, but placed the seeker on the launcher instead of the missile itself. The seeker sensed both the target and the missile and sent...

used by British special forces. Both sides also used the Blowpipe missile. British naval missiles used included Sea Dart and the older Sea Slug longer range...

Anza 1975 – Blowpipe 1967 – FIM-43 Redeye 1981 – FIM-92 Stinger 1945 – Fliegerfaust 1995 – PZR Grom 1994 – Type 91 surface-to-air missile 1943 – Carl...

acceleration from booster rockets Similar missiles include: Strela-2, Strela-3, Igla, Stinger, Anza (missile), Blowpipe, Javelin, Mistral, VSHORAD (India),...

Submarine-Launched Airflight Missile (SLAM) system, an anti-aircraft system using a cluster of four Shorts Blowpipe missiles on an extendable mast, allowing...

leave Britain within 7 days because of the attempted smuggling of a Blowpipe missile. The South African Air Force's Klippan Radar Station in the Western...

has designed IFF equipment for the British Aerospace Rapier missile, Shorts Blowpipe missile, Bofors RBS-70, Ericsson's Giraffe radar and the Contraves...

and Medium-range SAM) SİPER (Long-range SAM) Dnipro Thunderbird (missile) Blowpipe Bristol Bloodhound Javelin Rapier Sea Cat – United Kingdom Sea Slug...

Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM) is a lightweight air-to-surface, air-to-air, surface-to-air, and surface-to-surface missile developed by Thales Air...

long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) Blowfish submarine mast VSHORAD system Blowpipe man-portable surface-to-air missile (SAM) Blue Steel nuclear "stand-off...

explosives, radios, intelligence, and around fifty Blowpipe Missile launchers with 300 Missiles were sent to the Afghan resistance. The Special Air Service...

causing light damage. On 27 May, an MB-339A (4-A-114) was shot down by a Blowpipe missile during the Battle for Goose Green, while attempting to attack British...

Anti-tank Guided Missile) Black Arrow (United Kingdom) Bloodhound UK Surface-to-air Blowfish submarine mast VSHORAD system Blowpipe UK Man portable Surface-to-air...

Harrier (piloted by Flt Lt Jeffrey Glover RAF) was shot down by a Blowpipe missile (fired by members of the Argentine 601 Commando Company) and taken...

Company claimed to have shot down a Harrier, with a shoulder-launched Blowpipe missile. The British admit the loss of a GR-3 Harrier (XZ-989) on this day...

21, Sea Dart missile 7, Sea Wolf missile 4, Stinger missile 2, Sea Cat missile 1, Rapier missile 1, Blowpipe missile 1, combination/gunfire 6, friendly...

origins were open to speculation. The most notable of these was the Blowpipe missile launchers. These had proved a failure in the Falklands War and had...