"Alan Minyard" wrote in message
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On 31 May 2004 16:01:19 GMT, Alistair Gunn wrote:



I have often wondered why the Brits did not use manpads. Were they
unavailable?


They did, the Short Blowpipe to be precise, there were not as good as the
current generation of manpad's but still managed to shoot down a
number of the Argentine aircraft, mainly the Pucara's operating in
the CAS role IRC.

Keith.