Awesome thanks.

Thanks Sir :)

Cheers, may they all feast and tell each other great stories in Valhalla.

thanks Brian. Any interest in an interview?

@@grimreapers Possibly, but didn't know that is something you guys were into. I had an unusual role during thr Falklands but PM me and we can discuss if an interview of interest? cheers

You don’t feel any ill will towards the Argentinians? They were trying to kill you and your brothers after all, no?

@@Rokaize At the time I was a bit annoyed, as it was a completely unnecessary war, but it was forty years ago and time and maturity have made they mark and lessened the impact. As a medic it helped me to write a book about it [the band that went to war] and having taken the Argentines home after the war on my ship, some of the Argentine POW's have recently been in touch and thanked me for the way they were treated.

@@Drummer2020 well the average Argentinian soldier or pilot has no say in the war they fought. Same as you all on the British side. I would say the pilots of theirs were very skilled and brave for sure so I can see how you’d think that

Thanks man!

he needed that before the mission. now he has to do it all again, but it will be just as popular

@@dabneyoffermein595 Absolutely! By popular request, we demand a re-do, with Alejandro Grossi's information on weapon's load, plus some pre-mission training on land on using iron bombs, for Pete's sake!

Cap does mention it will be redone in full with the Falkland map.

and the Harriers only had TWO Sidewinders

Rest in Peace to him and the others lost. God Bless.

the realiti was total madness to

Everyone loves cap and his travelling troupe of aerial speds

Love how the accent went from French to German back to French.

Well apparently I am an adult as well... scary

@@grimreapers, never grow up, Cap. That's an hordourve.

Yeah.... as an argie myself.... that hurt my ears

@@searchtron7601 Hes saying that Caps initiation Argentinian accent sounds like a Frenchman. Which it does. His accent was so bad it didn’t even sound like the right country.

@@TomGS ikr

@@searchtron7601 meh... i can ridicule my own country....its when people from other countries ridiculing us when the shit hit the fan. 😆

@@TomGS argy che boludooo🤌🤌

Yes. They knew to fly low as in 1975 Argentina had purchased 2 x Type 42 Destroyers of their own. They knew the Radars and the Sea Dart Missiles weaknesses. The only reason why Sea Dart got as many kills as it did was because HMS Exeter was a Batch 2 Type 42 with Type 1022 Radar which was far superior to the Type 965 AKE 2 that the First batch had (Type 965 was used on RN ships from the early 1960s including Type 42s predecessor the County Class Destroyer) and could detect Aircraft flying low over sea/land. This proved to be one of the Causes for HMS Coventry sinking as she couldn't detect the incoming threat until they were much closer than they could have got in open ocean. HMS Exeter gained about half of all Sea Dart Kills

Although Spanish is Argentina's official language, a minority of 17% of the population, do in fact speak French... The Franco-Argentinos, whom have partial or full french ancestry. That is according to Wikipedia. GR are all inclusive 😉

Hahaha I'm Spanish . Absolutly YES 😂

@@badgerservices9665 Italian too 👍🏻

Weeeeellllllllllll, the mirages were a French design, does that count?

@@badgerservices9665 It's more italian the way of speaking.

thxx

Pilots licenses are only about 10,000

@@Rokaize That's quite a value seeing that I payed about 3000€ for my driving license

@@titaniummechanism3214 well I don’t know about Europe. But in the US that’s about average. Maybe more for you all.

My spanish isn't that great but that accent was entirely french.

lol

thx Mike

the only sucessful attack of the vulcan, if the harrier could operate anti radiation missiles at that time the war would have been a lot shorter

@@Foxtrop13 Actually there were 7 Black Buck operations...5 of them were performed...2 cancelled...1 bcuz of weather conditions and the other one i don't remember why...

@@henry247 the anti radar mission destroyed 1 argentine radar, the bombing mission dropped 21 bombs over port stanley airfield, only 1 bomb hitted the runway, they fixed between 24hs and keep having c130 landings

@@Foxtrop13 True

@@Foxtrop13 I think Argentina miiiight still have withdrawn, had the Brits threatened / started to nuke cities on the mainland ...

Cool

I use robotic surveying equipment that will jitter like the one in the video if the ground is too soft. Is it the same phenomenon? (The actuator motors wobbling the base.)

On the battle of Mt. Longdon. The first casualtie from the British army was a 16th years old kid, he wasn't the only kid there...

Tragic. They were brave lads.

It's the only bomb depression charts we could find for the plane :(

@@grimreapers I don't think you'll find. That was one of the issues FAA had. They didn't have snakeyes. They mostly dropped mk17 slicks, and as they had to jump the boat, they configured the b9bms to explode later. That's why many of them actually didn't explode. It was what they had... But not the right bomb for a low level drop. But they couldn't go any higher cause of the long and mid range radars and missiles (sea dart and I don't remember the medium one)

I see what you did there!!!

cool

lols

thx

As a argie i agree with that.

Funny, i thought they be more likely to sound german

@@LogieT2K The ethnic of Argentina its very complex. In a very large country lives a mix of south americans pre spanish, the mix between those, and the italian, german, french and eastern europe inmigrants (the origin of one of the myths: the argentinian girls bla bla bla). But mostly we sound -speaking, and im talking about the large cities- like as italians, and i am an argie son from a italian/french and serbians. A beauiful mess for christmas.

indeed, we do talk like italians

If a friendly makes mistakes you have to say to him "gordo boludo"

Looking forward to re-doing this in a more realistic attempt.

:)

As in they were more capable or less capable than the higher ups made them out to be?

@@tonypepperoni3679 he makes numerous claims to the point that the admiralty had no faith in the SHAR CAP patrols, putting all their faith in the sea-dart missile screen, and because they never believed in the CAP, they frequently redirected, or called off the CAP or insisted they do bombing instead, making the CAP’s failure to protect the fleet a self-for filling prophecy. He believes the SHAR was badly mishandled and under utilized by the flag structure, hamstringing the pilots. They could have been FAR more effective in his opinion.

@@doemacmonkey oh wow, never heard that. Thanks for the great response, I appreciate it. 👍

@@tonypepperoni3679 try and find the book - worth a read - obviously it’s up to us whether we believe him, the official view of the RN is he’s wrong! But it’s interesting as he also give highly detailed accounts of his engagements.

@@tonypepperoni3679 here is the publisher’s blurb: This intriguing book takes you to war in the cockpit of a fighter aircraft. It is more than an authoritative, first-hand and detailed account of the air war in the Falklands, 1982. Indeed, it is a real life and very exciting adventure story in which the author ‘calls a spade a spade’; revealing both the successes and the failures of the British air campaign. The reader will gain an intimate insight into the persona of the Royal Navy fighter pilot which differs vastly from that of his RAF peers. That persona is aggressive, completely dedicated, thoroughly professional and pays no regard to “Crew duty times”. As a fully integrated part of the Naval Service, it achieves continued success in combat and has done so on behalf of the British public for the last 100 years of British carrier operations overseas. Sharkey Ward commanded 801 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Invincible, during the Falklands War of April to June 1982 and was senior Sea Harrier adviser to the Command on the tactics, direction and progress of the air war. He flew over sixty war missions, achieved three air-to-air kills and took part in or witnessed a total of ten kills; he was also the leading night pilot and was decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross for gallantry. Those are the bare facts, though they do no sort of justice to this remarkable and outspoken book, nor to its author. For what, after all, could twenty Sea Harriers, operating from a flight-deck bucketing about in the South Atlantic, do against more than 200 Argentine military aircraft flown by pilots who, as the raids against British shipping proved, displayed enormous skill and gallantry? The world knows the answer now; as it knows the debt owed to the author and his fellow flyers. What is puzzling, therefore, is this book's truthful depiction of the attitudes of some of the senior non-flying naval officers and of the RAF towards the men (and indeed the machine) that made possible the victory in the Falklands. This extraordinary first-hand account charts the naval pilots' journey to the South Atlantic in clear and forthright detail and how they took on and triumphantly conquered the challenges they faced. It is a dramatic story, leavened with brilliant accounts of air-to-air fighting and of life in a squadron at sea and on a war footing. But it is also a tale of inter-Service rivalry, bureaucratic interference and the less-than-generous attitudes of a number of senior commanders who should certainly have known better; indeed, some of them might even have lost the campaign through a lack of understanding of air warfare- particularly if all their instructions had been followed to the letter and without question. The author puts the record straight.

I would love to hear it

I would LOVE to hear this. Need to learn for when we do full Falklands campaign.

The guy who took down an antenna with his wing

I can help you with the translation if you need. As a native argie, I guess I will be handy for it!

@@lucasmconcordia i would love the help, cus right now im with the mid term exams in the uni so im quite bussy atm.

I wonder if the countermeasures were not working at the time on this jet?

@@grimreapers Argies and British had no IR countermeasures in service until the RAF flew some Harriers down fitted with ALQ-140s right at the end of the war. The British did a lash up system for one time deployment of Chaff on the Harriers from the Airbrake bay.

I need to let my hair blow freely in the wind in a dogfight!

@@grimreapers Hair? It has been a while since I was able to watch a video. 🤔

Yup. come join.

Thx Lombax

Thanks!

Really? I knew. You know.

lol

eek, so hard...

Might be hard getting the Victors to NOT crash into each other though

Operation Black Buck was a fantastic maths, physics and time operation with great propoganda results but with negligble impact on the course of the war -1.5 hits at best on the middleish of the runway, but perhaps with a fear that Buenos Aries might be next the Junta started wobbling.

@@martinjefferson3395 it did stop fast jets using the runway, and for sure it worried the Junta. I seem to remember reading somewhere they held aircraft back for mainland defence after blackbuck as they had genuine fears of a mainland attack.

@@martinjefferson3395 They also use the anti radar Shrike missile which hit one of the argentine radar units, killing the officer and several others. I guarded one of the survivors when we took them home and he was lucky to be alive. So, it did cause some physical damage and morale damage to the troops.

@@Drummer2020 Good point. I also remember reading that they flew the last leg without nav radar to avoid revealing themselves. Good old slide rules, log tables and astral navigation took them to the target zone where they briefly turned it on for 1 or 2 cycles to confirm exact location when over the islands. I rank it as one of the RAF's greatest achievements and a lasting testimony to the Vulcan and the men and women who made it all possible.

Whose islands are these for you? As a Chilean I will always say that the islands are British for many reasons.

@@alejandrocastro3662 I am British, so believe that the islanders should always be allowed to belong to who they wish too. Although I do recall that prior to the 2nd April 1982 literally nobody had ever heard of the place. I do remember at the time that there were bits of information about how Chile was heavily supporting the UK. For example the SAS helicopter that crashed landed, but I don't think anyone really appreciated just how much they did help. Pretty sure many lives were saved by that help.

Chile literally earned the hatred of Latin America and its nickname for life "traitor" all because Chile supported the United Kingdom. But Chile had reasons to support the British, since independence, Argentina has always been a bully with Chile because they had power at that time. Especially 4 years before the Falkands, Argentina threatened to invade the south of Chile and Peru from the north and all because at that time the United Kingdom arbitration award favored Chile over some islands, in the war of the Falkands Argentina did not He was not ashamed to ask Chile for help since he planned to invade my country for 4 years. Argentine dictator Galtieri said: Let the Chileans take examples of what we are doing to the British, because then Chile follows. That's why I will always support the British cause 🇬🇧🇫🇰

Jacques!