A declassified Foreign Office document has revealed that on Jun. 13, 1976, a Soviet minesweeper fired two green rocket flares at a Fleet Air Arm Wessex helicopter when both are operating in the Mediterranean.
By Mike Freer – Touchdown-aviation [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
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