- Reaction score
- 2,007
- Points
- 1,160
This is a really informative thread on X about the entire Falklands campaign. It started a few months ago and is updated every day.
He’s covered it from beginning and I suspect to the end. (Head adding new material every consistent with the date of the month).
I’ve learned lots of interesting things about tactics used by both sides, and how some things happened that were not widely known, for example:
A SeaWolf missile system was capable of (and did) intercepting artillery and naval gun rounds.
A mystery submarine (not a Royal Navy submarine) was harassing Argentine ships in Argentine waters and several times pinged destroyers in harbour or at anchor causing them to attack contacts.
A submarine operated by an unknown 3rd party actually fired a torpedo at a British destroyer, and the torpedo went clear underneath missing by inches and then detonated some distance away.
Argentine commandos repeatedly and successfully ambushed para recce patrols and even captured 1 and killed a few more. But more interestingly they captured comms gear and used it to monitor British movements and the Brits seemed not aware until an idiot in the Argentine press published a photo of the gear.
US Ambassador Haig had persuaded President Reagan to make the deck of the USS Eisenhower available to UK Buccaneers and Phantoms for the invasion, which the UK turned down.
Really interesting stuff:
He’s covered it from beginning and I suspect to the end. (Head adding new material every consistent with the date of the month).
I’ve learned lots of interesting things about tactics used by both sides, and how some things happened that were not widely known, for example:
A SeaWolf missile system was capable of (and did) intercepting artillery and naval gun rounds.
A mystery submarine (not a Royal Navy submarine) was harassing Argentine ships in Argentine waters and several times pinged destroyers in harbour or at anchor causing them to attack contacts.
A submarine operated by an unknown 3rd party actually fired a torpedo at a British destroyer, and the torpedo went clear underneath missing by inches and then detonated some distance away.
Argentine commandos repeatedly and successfully ambushed para recce patrols and even captured 1 and killed a few more. But more interestingly they captured comms gear and used it to monitor British movements and the Brits seemed not aware until an idiot in the Argentine press published a photo of the gear.
US Ambassador Haig had persuaded President Reagan to make the deck of the USS Eisenhower available to UK Buccaneers and Phantoms for the invasion, which the UK turned down.
Really interesting stuff:
