Ataque al HMS Invincible

Este video muestra el ataque conjunto de la ARA y la FAA en la guerra de las Malvinas contra el portaaviones HMS Invincible contado por uno de los pilotos que participó.
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• invincible
• malvina
• ataque

[llanbo]

@Foxtrop13

"you keep living well with the stolen resources"

Nonsense. You Conquistadors, on the other hand, have lived on someone else's land for 400 years or so, after killing and subjugating the rightful owners AND STILL LIVE THERE!

Funny how you can't face up to that simple fact.. even funnier when you whine about a country which long got rid of its empire as being "imperialist" given your situation..

[villafane12]

It wasn't invencible after all :D

[tommyenfield]

Where the anti-aircraft fire came from? The HMS Invincible didn't have any guns at that time. Also, the HMS Invincible was not the flagship, the HMS Hermes was.

[EddieExile]

@llanbo "A few subsonic British seaplanes flew from 2 tiny carriers scrambled within 48 hours to sail 8000 miles to face the entire argentine airforce (10 times their number) flying from their home bases"

The argentines had more and better equipment including better boots, night sights, guns, helicopters etc. And the British had to walk 50 miles with all kit before battle.

The argentines didn’t perform well but they weren’t inferior people - they were inferior soldiers.

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[llanbo]

@llanbo

..but to reiterate my main point - the Task Force was an incredible achievement, and every man or woman in or involved with it has my gratitude and admiration. But let's not make out the Argentines were somehow inferior as a people. Tactically they made some mistakes, lucky for us!, but the courage and professionalism of at least their pilots is to be admired. As is that of our own, heavily outnumbered, pilots (and anyone who wasn't a pilot too)

[llanbo]

@EddieExile

I'm well aware of the military differences between the two sides, possibly more so than you if you think the SHARS were at much of a disadvantage by being subsonic when fighting an enemy faced with 600nm+ transits to and from their home bases.

I'd be interested to know the Army equipment the Argentines had that was so much better than the British.

[EddieExile]

@llanbo

A few subsonic British seaplanes flew from 2 tiny carriers scrambled within 48 hours to sail 8000 miles to face the entire argentine airforce flying from their home bases

The British navy was more modern than the argentine navy (which ran away to port) but was designed to fight under US carrier protection so was extremely vulnerable.

The Argentine army had bought weapons and equipment from all over the world before the invasion - and these items were better than the British .

[llanbo]

@EddieExile

..politics aside, I take my hat off to the Argentines' bravery. And it's not really fair to say their equipment was as good as ours overall - they didn't have many modern ships or modern weapons for their aircraft.

Politically, I feel the Islanders are the only ones who can decide what happens to the Falklands, and Galtieri's regime was awful. I still respect and salute the bravery of the Argentine fighting men as much as I respect our own troops.

[llanbo]

@EddieExile

"Argentine weapons were as good as the British- argentine men were not. "

Certainly not the conscripts in the army, but the Argentine special forces and regular troops were pretty tough. Their airforce and navy pilots had big, swinging steel balls as far as I'm concerned - flying 300 miles from your base, over some of the nastiest, coldest water on the planet to conduct incredible high-speed, low-level attacks against well-armed ships is not for sissies...

[MrFolanito]

30years after the Falklands War, a member of the British royal talked about one of the most daring missions conducted by the Argentine pilots in the race. On May 30, 82, two aircraft of the Navy Super Etendard Argentina Air Force attacked the carrier, the flagship of the Task Force. This attack was never recognized by the English side. However, in a television interview Prince Andrew, Duke of York, spoke of the time the ship was under ataque.En an article published by The Telegraph

[EddieExile]

@guardianacional1

British losses: 258 killed, 777 wounded, 115 taken prisoner, 2 destroyers, 2 frigates, 1 LSL landing ship,1 LCU craft, 1 container ship, 24 helicopters, 10 fighters

Argentine losses: 649 killed, 1,068 wounded, 11,313 taken prisoner, 1 cruiser, 1 submarine, 4 cargo vessels, 2 patrol boats, 1 spy trawler, 25 helicopters, 35 fighters, 2 bombers, 4 transports, 25 COIN aircraft, 9 armed trainers, the war.

Argentine weapons were as good as the British- argentine men were not.