Royal Navy Lynx helicopters attacked Iraqi small combatants at the Battle of Bubiyan Channel, finding targets suited to their established anti-surface role. Their capabilities extended beyond anti-submarine warfare to attacking torpedo boats and missile boats. The comparison traces that task back to British motor torpedo boats hunting opposing small combatants. Helicopters changed the means of attack while preserving the requirement to defeat those small naval threats. Their Gulf War success illustrates a case in which equipment and operational mission matched.
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Lynx helicopters inherited the fight against small surface combatants
Bubiyan shows how the Lynx continued an older naval task: defeating hostile torpedo boats and other small surface combatants.