Re: Flying military vehicles

From: Steve & Jeanne Keith (cckw@comcast.net)
Date: Fri May 26 2006 - 18:53:38 PDT

The US made Skyhawks kicked the sheet out of the Brits. The
Brit commander stated that if 1/2 of the bombs that had hit his
ships had gone off, he would have had to withdraw his forces!

The Argentine pilots were atacking soo low that many of the bombs
failed to arm.

The Mirage's could launch the Exocet missiles at the max range
of the Harriers so that Harriers could not protect the ship adequately
because they could not stay on station to intercept the Mirages
before they launched the Exocets.

Steve AKA Dr Deuce.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Flying military vehicles

At 9:51 AM +0930 5/27/06, dgrev wrote:
>
>
>IIRC correctly, from the military point of view it was a bust as
>the mission did not succeed in denying the use of the runway
>at Port Stanley? If this is so, it must have been a huge disappointment
>to all who so obviously did their utmost to get the job done?

It gave the Argies pause and dissuaded them from
running anything but the Pucara's from Port
Stanley. The Mirage II fighters were withdrawn to
cover Argentine land proper since Vulcans could
hit the Falkands they could ALSO hit Argentine
bases in Argentina. This meant that the Harriers
had free reign over the Islands save for worries
of ground fire.

Excellent writeup here:
http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/vulcan.htm

and here http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/air-war.htm 

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