Shy and EESDL,
You are both referring to the same incident which occurred on 19 July 1991 at 1420 hrs local near Kinawley in County Fermanagh. The late Scott Weir was leading a pair of Wessex responding to a classic PIRA ”come on” at a Border Crossing Point when they were engaged. Initial reports were that it was an RPG but given the signature and trajectory, Scotty was adamant it was a MANPAD. The WIS didn’t believe him at first which made it an amusing debrief, it wasn’t helped that AP reported it as an RPG too which further added to the confusion. Scotty was vindicated 7 weeks later when a farmer handed in a tail fin from near the scene of the attack. It was identified as a SA7b Strela 2M that was part of the 14 tonnes of weapons from the Colonel in response to ELDORADO CANYON. In Steven Taylor’s book “Air War in NI” he attributes the failure of the attack to the AN/ ALQ-144 which is wrong as the Wessex was only ever equipped with the BAe IRJ, which patently did its job.