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Blowpipe Missile

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The Shorts Blowpipe is a man-portable surface-to-air missile that served with the British Army and Royal Marines from 1975 to 1985, and also with other armed forces worldwide, with most examples retired by the mid-1990s. It is unusual among man-portable air-defense systems in being manually guided to its target with a small joystick that sends correction commands to the missile over a radio link.

Facts
Weapon Class
Man-portable surface-to-air missile 1
Introduced Year
1975 1
Classification
Service Status
In Service 1
Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category)
Guided Missile 1
Connections

Operated By

British Army, Armed Forces and Units
Source Blowpipe (missile), Wikipedia

Used In

Falklands War, Wars
Source Blowpipe (missile), Wikipedia
Gulf War, Wars
Source Blowpipe (missile), Wikipedia
Soviet-Afghan War, Wars
Source Blowpipe (missile), Wikipedia
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Manufactured By

Thales Air Defence

Also in Business Atlas: the manufacturer of this subject.

Source Wikidata: Blowpipe Missile
Sources
1. Blowpipe (missile), Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence
    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.
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence, service dates
    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.
  • Infobox: service
    1975-present
  • Service-status attribute (blowpipe-missile)
    Most examples were retired by the mid-1990s.
  • Used In: Falklands War, Infobox: wars
    Falklands War Soviet-Afghan War Gulf War Cenepa War
  • Used In: Soviet-Afghan War, Infobox: wars
    Falklands War Soviet-Afghan War Gulf War Cenepa War
  • Used In: Gulf War, Infobox: wars
    Falklands War Soviet-Afghan War Gulf War Cenepa War
  • Operated By: British Army, Lead
    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.
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Wikidata: Blowpipe Missile
Wikidata Q774960, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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