Famously dubbed 'Bandit Country' by a UK government minister in
1975, South Armagh was considered the most dangerous part of
Northern Ireland for the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary
during the years of violence known as the 'Troubles' that engulfed
the province in the last three decades of the twentieth century.
This was also true for the helicopter crews of the RAF, Royal Navy
and Army Air Corps who served there. Throughout the 'Troubles' the
Provisional IRA's feared South Armagh brigade waged a relentless
campaign against military aircraft operating in the region, where
the threat posed by roadside bombs made the security forces highly
dependent on helicopters to conduct day-to-day operations. From
pot-shot attacks with Second World War-era rifles in the early days
of the conflict to large scale, highly co-ordinated ambushes by
PIRA active service units equipped with heavy machine guns,
rocket-propelled grenade launchers and even shoulder-launched
surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), the threat to British air
operations by the late 1980s led to the arming of helicopters
operating in the border regions of Northern Ireland. Drawing on a
wide range of sources, including official records and the accounts
of aircrew, this book tells the little-known story of the battle
for control of the skies over Northern Ireland's 'Bandit Country'.
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