The Falklands War

Boy, what a goofy story! And I thought our politicians were nuts! :roll:

 

Speaking of nutty politicians...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4596861.stm

 

Paranoid much?

 

Copied and pasted into my quote, but yes you are of course correct, Paras "Tab" Marines "Yomp", and to think I nearly joined the Paras and yet I got that wrong... the shame

 

It would have been had you joined and then got it wrong.

:lol:

 

Lance Corporal Winfield firing a .50 Browning machine gun was personally credited with one confirmed kill. The third wave of Skyhawks saw a wall of tracer ahead and dropped their spare fuel tanks and five parachute-retarded bombs just in front of Right Flank's position. This was the first occasion on which the Battalion took the offensive since landing on East Falkland and, as well as causing people to feel that they had at last become involved in a fight against the Argentinians, it helped to avenge the dreadful events of a few hours earlier at Fitzroy.

Taken from http://www.sevastopol-adventure.com/SG.Falklands.htm

I know some maý say this is an uncreditable source and yes it is I will keep looking for some more creditable sources.

Although these missed it shows the Argentinians did use them.

01st May 1982

Admiral Woodward's Carrier group entered the TEZ.

Eleven Victor tankers and two RAF Vulcan bombers took off from Ascension to bomb Port Stanley runway.

HMS Invincible launched the first Sea Harrier Combat Air Patrol (CAP) of the conflict.

HMS Hermes launched its 12 Sea Harriers for attacks on Port Stanley airfield and Goose Green.

HMS Glamorgan, Alacrity and Arrow headed for the Falklands protected by the CAP.

HMS Brilliant and Yarmouth headed to the north-west of the Carrier group on submarine patrol.

HMS Plymouth detached to reinforce South Georgia defences.

By mid-afternoon, the Glamorgan group came within gun range of Port Stanley airfield.

As the Glamorgan group bombarded the airfield they came under attack by three Mirages.
HMS Glamorgan and Alacrity were both near-missed by 1,000lb parachute-retarded bombs and strafing caused some superficial damage to Glamorgan and Arrow, wounding Arrow's Seacat aimer.



From http://www.navynews.co.uk/falklands/day_may.asp

 

That is very interesting, that Argentina used parachute retarded bombs. One doesn't imagine such an 'old fashioned' weapon being used in the Jet Age.

 

I thought that para-retarded bombs were fairly standard equipment for low-level bombing runs, as they stopped your aircraft getting hit by shrapnel.

 

Parachute retarded bombs are still pretty commonplace, even the US uses them.

 

Some bombs require a certain number of rotations to arm themselves otherwise they do not go bang. The parachute slows the rate of decent to allow sufficient rotations.

 

Thank you for the information, gentlemen.

 

Hi,

I just read somewhere that the torps used to sink the belgrano were over 50 years old at the time!

Apparently the captain reckoned they would be more reliable and useful aginst the ww2 armoured skirt of the belgrano than his modern torps.

FNG

 

They used straight running MkVIII's of WW2 design - the advanced Tigerfish was known to have 'reliability' problems at the time.

 

Plus - IIRC - modern torpedoes have smaller warheads...

 

Well, 21" Mark 8** has explosive charge of 365 kg Torpex while 21" Mark 24 Tigerfish has explosive charge of 340 kg Torpex. Not that much difference.

 

Then I remembered wrongly!
(again... I'm so lucky to have you guys to correct me!)

 

Nukes and the Falklands


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4629275.stm

 

Ah, yes, I remember hearing the radio interview just the other morning.

You'd have to be a rather dedicated cvonspiracy nut to think that they brought along nuclear depth charges in order to blow the Falklands into radioactive dust...

 

I'm sure i remember this being said 5 years ago, and 10 and 15 and 20.

:-?