HMS ANTRIM THE FALKLANDS WAR

COUNTY CLASS GUIDED MISSILE DESTOYER OF THE ROYAL NAVY

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[elgriegodemalvinas]

Ey NAIAD! I'm just trying to analize the conflict (with respect), i'm not the lord of true. I like to interchange oppinions, ok? Don´t anger with me. Byes from Argentina.

[NAIAD49]

@elgriegodemalvinas I am not angering with you.......these are tributes to the Royal Navy............you are going off subject.

It is not my intention to debate the war..........so Byes from me.

[elgriegodemalvinas]

Hi. Our main difficult was the logistics, we hadn't too many helis (the harriers and naval guns crashed several), our trenches were bad supplied in food and equipment. We were always outnumbered and with less powerfire in the frontline. It´s long...I'll send you some titles (both sources) very interesting to read. Bye Eddie. Ah, where're you from?

[NAIAD49]

@elgriegodemalvinas Imaging the logistical problems the British had 8000 miles from home bases.All our heavy lift helios were lost on Atalantic Conveyor(1 survived).

Our troops walked 50 miles to do battle.Some big logistical problem for us.

How were you outnumbered?...........not on land or in the air.......only at sea,we had more ships.

[elgriegodemalvinas]

It's not an offense, you were better and you won, that's clear. But i'm very proud of my pilots and i consider that the M/F war was the last clean conflict and both have heroes and brave soldiers. Amazingly and sadly, the argentine heroes are better remembered in the UK than in Argentine... Sorry by idiom... Byes from Argentine.

[NAIAD49]

@elgriegodemalvinas Yes,be proud of your pilots.....just as I am proud of the men of the Royal Navy..............make a tribute video for your pilots on You Tube....do it for your men.

[albrit1962]

I left Antrim just before the conflict broke out, I ended up at whale island protecting the home front.... Nice tribute as are all your tribute videos NAIAD49

[RobertM408]

The retention of the County Class Type 2 destroyers long enough to fight in the Falklands War seems a very doubtful decision that could easily have been disastrous. The Seaslug missile magazine in these ships was very vulnerable and bombs that hit Antrim and the Exocet that hit the Glamorgan came within half an inch of penetrating the missile magazine and setting up a krakatoa like explosion that would have taken all. The Seaslug 2's were useless and nobody was fooled.

[elgriegodemalvinas]

Hi NAIAD! That's true, but with the A.Conveyor sunked you still have a hundred of helis and very good used. We have no more than a dozen. About the outnumber, amazingly, in the frontline you have ever more number of combattants and powerfire, in each mount combat, cause your troops are constantly reubicated tactically (excellent job) This isn't something that I've invented, in the book "Guerra bajo la Cruz del Sur" it's good explained.

[elgriegodemalvinas]

@Eddieposted Again,haha. I think that the main difference was the disposition and planification of the land forces. The british were done an excellent work,tactically and strategically, the arg command planed a deffense from the Great War... And if we haven´t sunked the A.Conveyor,with your full logistics, that war ended before. My english is worsting every day,sorry... Bye Eddie.

[elgriegodemalvinas]

@Eddieposted Hi! that's true, the exocets aren't old. But several A-4 hadn't navigation eq., we hadn´t AIM-9L's and that was decisive in the air battle. At the sea, the nuclear sub was a extremely disuasive weapon and we cannot to defy it.The land forces had a similar strenght i think. Better men is a hard phrase, the british were better trained, but our trained troops they offered a hard resistance.