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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Look up blowpipe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blowpipe may refer to: Blowpipe (missile), a man-portable surface-to-air missile Blowgun (also called...
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  • mm) gun Bristol Bloodhound Blowpipe missile Javelin missile Rapier missile Sea Slug missile Sea Wolf missile Starstreak missile English Electric Thunderbird...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • (missile)- In use till 1977 for mobile high altitude air defence. Bloodhound (missile)-Fixed air defence in UK from 1958 till 1991. Blowpipe (missile)-...
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    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...
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    acceleration from booster rockets Similar missiles include: Strela-2, Strela-3, Igla, Stinger, Anza (missile), Blowpipe, Javelin, Mistral, VSHORAD (India),...
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