1982 Falklands War: The Battle Of San Carlos & Beyond

1982 Falklands War: The Battle Of San Carlos & Beyond | DCS Reenactment Mission

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@alonsoquijano9555 Жыл бұрын

In reality during this attack the Argentinian pilots flew their skyhawks and daggers extremely low, often at 4 metres over the sea to avoid being targeted by naval artillery, often flying in between ships to prevent them from shooting as they could target other ships in the vicinity. When they approached using the cover of the mountains, they nevel flew over 20 metres to take advantage of the the earth curvature, and the terrain.

@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures Жыл бұрын

I'm a Brit, but I still think that those Argentinian pilots were the most daring, skilled and bravest pilots to have fought in my lifetime. A few more breaks and a few more bombs arming themselves and they might have won the war for Argentina. In the words of Wellington, "...it was the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life."

@mcelravys Жыл бұрын

Yes, but I don’t think the AI has the balls let alone the skills to do that.

@5Andysalive Жыл бұрын

@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures That is assuming Thatcher (who wasn't affected by the bombs) would have given up. Not sure about that. Also 4 m over see and 20 over mountains seems a rather bold claim. To put it diplomatically. Not least because of the infamous weather.

@grimreapers Жыл бұрын

We had humans flying red also.

@tomriley5790 Жыл бұрын

@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures the other side of the coin is that the escort vessels deliberately made themselves as inviting targets as possible and similarly fired up as much flack as possible to persuade the jets to attack them rather than the targets that mattered...

@iamscottsweeney Жыл бұрын

Be sure to select "All" updates to Grim Reaper content, valued humans.

@exiletsj2570 Жыл бұрын

Don’t assume my species or that I’m valued.

@RawPower7 Жыл бұрын

You are not my mom

@Davros-vi4qg Жыл бұрын

‘If that’s what u are?!?’

@grimreapers Жыл бұрын

You ARE valued

@vanguard9067 Жыл бұрын

@Drew Smith MISTER valued humanoid:-)

@mrlodwick Жыл бұрын

Nice one Capt. I was 15 years old and furious some country had invaded our lands " suggestive". My Dad and I would stay up late watching news night and teletext about this. Many years after I came to realise what a waste of life on both sides, I even felt sorry for the Argentinians being used by the failing junta to hide the fact their economy was shot. I do recall an Argentinian General said " If you look back at history the Brits do not like to lose in war". RIP to all souls lost both sides with no hesitation.

@geoffreyofmonmouth9796 Жыл бұрын

So right. Brave men died on both sides for an unnecessary war waged to cover up the deficiencies in the aggressor's government. Sound familiar?

@JohnSmith-ug4cg Жыл бұрын

I think true patriotism is understanding that one’s nation isn’t perfect but instead hoping and working to make it more perfect overtime and that includes acknowledging the mistakes of the past. Unfortunately we can’t undo these things but ideally we can learn from them and never repeat them, though we so often do.

@lowpinglag Жыл бұрын

I was about 12 years old when this war happened. When the news came on the telly, my dad would tell me to go to my room, I had no idea why back then, but now I understand that he did not want me to potentially see the horrors of war on TV, at such a young age.

@mcelravys Жыл бұрын

Met a fellow in Iraq, he was a contractor with a PMC from the UK. He was a Falklands vet. After that he went AWOL from the Royal Navy, joined the Foreign Legion, did six years, went home, joined the Army and did a tour in Northern Ireland. Hell of a guy. He calls beer “sherbet”, which I get but don’t get at the same time. He lived an adventure and is a second hand lion now.

@grimreapers Жыл бұрын

wow

@alejandrogrossi9424 Жыл бұрын

Hi Cap. greeting from Argentina. I saw 2 mistake on the loads of the Mirage and the A-4C. The frist: M-2000 have the marks of the of the M-III sqn (Grupo 8) figter only, not the IAI Dagger (Grupo 6) that made the attacks (fighter bomber). The comon loads in the Dagger was 3 drops tanks (1300lts) and 2 bomb. in the rear fuselaje hardpoint. For the A-4C, we never use the bomb on the wing hardpoins, only drop tanks. And for the Fleet air Arm Sea harrier, as far I remember they use 1 x wing AIM-9L. The GR.3 operates from the HMS Hermes, because her mayor capacity hangar. I love this historical reenactments

@grupoaereo9 Жыл бұрын

Hola! es DCS, un simulador... no se puede pedir mucho mas de lo que está creado. Va a tener miles de errores y cosas incorrectas. Espero que con el tiempo vayan apareciendo nuevos add-on. Pero lo mas probable es que le pase como a nuestro mod TOAS para IL-2 1946... fue creado tanto tiempo después que aparecieron nuevos simuladores mucho mejores. saludos!

@alejandrogrossi9424 Жыл бұрын

@@grupoaereo9 Si lo se. Gracias

@grupoaereo9 Жыл бұрын

@@alejandrogrossi9424 no lo tomes a mal! no quería sonar muy agresivo... jejejejeje! saludos desde Comodoro Rivadavia!!

@alejandrogrossi9424 Жыл бұрын

@@grupoaereo9 Ningún problema. saludos desde CABA

@grimreapers Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Ayns.L14A Жыл бұрын

One of my old SSM's (Sqn Sgt Maj) was serving with the Welsh Guards at the time, He was on the Sir Galahad when it was hit and was still having nightmares about it late into the Nineties.

@utbdoug Жыл бұрын

The A4 pilots had giant balls. Incredible airmanship to fly that low. The only Argies I have respect for.

@germangustavo3184 Жыл бұрын

and we Argentines do not respect any British

@rhysgoodman7628 Жыл бұрын

We need an official Super Étendard! Both for the South Atlantic map and the Persian Gulf. Hopefully a team other than Razbam, they already have plenty of stuff to work on. I’d like a dev team to make the Super É their priority.

@Davros-vi4qg Жыл бұрын

Helos did invaluable work over the Falklands. From recon, to inserting SF, ASW work, to logistics, CASEVAC and decoy work. The Harriers got the glory, the Helos helped win the war.

@tomriley5790 Жыл бұрын

Both really - without the Harriers air attacks would have been much more effective.

@neilwilkins9002 Жыл бұрын

thanks for the video team GR, ive got the harrier as one of my 1st modules, really getting excited to get started

@Wolfe351 Жыл бұрын

there was only one Chinook left after Conveyor went up. It was in the air when the ship was hit. Remember all this as we watched it on the news I was only a teenager back in 82

@GustaHeavy Жыл бұрын

Quality content! Really like this reenactments. A-4 Skyhawk is my favorite plane of all time because the tremendous damage that the old little bomber could do against such an impressive fleet. Greets and thx!

@skilgannon5069 Жыл бұрын

Excellent mission!! Great fun, cheers Arty!!

@Davros-vi4qg Жыл бұрын

Oh, been waiting for this.

@utbdoug Жыл бұрын

Excellent historical documentary style introduction. Would love to see you guys do this more on mission recreation going forward. My favourite GR video to date! Also, how can I join in with the GR fun days like the landing competitions?

@jollyjohnzz Жыл бұрын

That's my mates from 14 Battery, operating the rapiers .

@thelmaviaduct Жыл бұрын

Why weren't they set up prior to the main landing?

@jollyjohnzz Жыл бұрын

@@thelmaviaduct they were pretty much the first ashore . It took them a few hours at least, on the first day to calibrate and prepare them . After that they were pretty damn effective . I watched it on TV, I'd only left the regiment a few months before it all started . I was split down the middle , half of me wished I was there with the lads , and half of me was bloody grateful I wasn't.

@kazcat8096 Жыл бұрын

We was on the R F A ships with Blow pipe missiles F Troop 43 Ad Bty ,Lancelot, Tristram, Galahad, Percivale our guys was at Bluff cove, fox bay, st Carlos we called bomb aiiey the game you played was interesting brought back old memories of the war chris

@MiguelAbd Жыл бұрын

It's great to see a Falkland mission now that I've learned the AV-8B. This will be an interesting mission!

@Hockey88NY Жыл бұрын

You all ways amazing me as your do your missions! Keep up the fabulous job!

@bearcatracing007 Жыл бұрын

Yes finally, thanks GR

@jameslanning8405 Жыл бұрын

I thought you could select weapons with a button on the stick? Air to air guns Air to ground guns Or air to ground munitions, like bombs or rockets... Pucker factor 10!! on that landing. But if you can walk away...

@davidtodorovic6046 Жыл бұрын

A whole lot of fun. Really interesting mission.

@mikemoore4033 Жыл бұрын

I heard that Prince Andrew was angry during the Falklands, ‘cos his “bird” was more than eight years old.

@grimreapers Жыл бұрын

oof

@Steve-yf9my 3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@roderickval Жыл бұрын

Was looking forward to this one, Awesome Mission Guys! Made Those Harriers work a little at the end huh Cap? haha Only Guns in our Argentinian A-4s and Mirage (Space) Good fun!

@gtdevious8253 Жыл бұрын

Enjoying these realistic scenarios! Hopefully more in the future, Iraq etc…any plans for more milsim? Hope so👌🏻

@TheDickieP Жыл бұрын

I haven’t had the time to watch all the GR stuff but love these videos. What’s the harrier skin?

@Baddad36 Жыл бұрын

"Fun" fact. That BBC report on the unexploded bombs allowed the Argentinians to alter the fuses. Way to go BBC. God bless.

@LondonSteveLee Жыл бұрын

And told the Argies we were just about to attack Goose Green - bunch of Marxist traitors the lot of 'em.

@VirgilVonGraban Жыл бұрын

The takeoffs always crack me up.. well done boyzz Heavy as she goes

@samconway2326 Жыл бұрын

I'm sure Prince Andrew was sweating in that helicopter.

@voradfils Жыл бұрын

I don't know when this was filmed but in case you haven't found it yet, A/A Mode DOWN: Gun (default C) under HOTAS subcategory. Single press of a button just like the sidewinders. You already have it bound since I saw you activate it by accident once. You'll see a cross and a blob that resembles a regular velocity vector but there's a dot in the middle.

@grimreapers Жыл бұрын

Yup my bad.

@jameshewitt8828 Жыл бұрын

The only chinook that survived was Bravo November and she's at RAF Cosford museum now, me and my son have photos from our visit of her

@PFpants Жыл бұрын

I think those ground crew were probably stroked out or something anyways. It was a mercy killing.

@lohrtom Жыл бұрын

Love the Falklands stuff. Whoever in the RN thought Sea Cat was a good idea?

@tomriley5790 Жыл бұрын

Well in the 1950s it was...

@LondonSteveLee Жыл бұрын

The best weapon of its type when it was released - and an antique by 1982. Had the previous Labour administration not paused the Type 42 refresh and Sea Dart upgrade programmes to save money - we would have gone to war with Type 1022 RADARs across the board and Mod 1 Sea Dart - the conflict would have been very different.

@Kefuddle Жыл бұрын

A bit of a travesty they showed marines on the landing craft, when it was the 2 para that made landfall first and most of the vicious trench to trench fighting before the marines were able to take part.

@roentgen571 Жыл бұрын

How do Harrier pilots concentrate with several feet of det cord inches from their heads?

@grupoaereo9 Жыл бұрын

Para todos los argentinos. Esto es solo un juego. El DCS no tiene los aviones utilizados durante la guerra, por ende esto es totalmente irreal. Ni siquiera el escenario es el mismo ya que está basado en fotografías actuales de las islas. Como diversión, está bien. Pero no es una recreación.

@nicolaslopez2662 Жыл бұрын

Me divierto más con los comentarios. Una pregunta, para usted, que está informado: ¿Tenían los A4 bengalas [chaff]? No se distingue las fotos reales que se ven de los combates aéreos, la mayoría tomada desde los Harriers. Gracias.

@grupoaereo9 Жыл бұрын

@@nicolaslopez2662 hola nicolás! los A-4 no tenian contra-medidas... solo los Canberras y algunos Daggers llevaban tiras metálicas en las tapas de los aerofrenos... podés buscar la historia de la maquina de hacer tallarines 🙂 saludos!!

@BobH809 Жыл бұрын

Cap, there is a very old piece of technology called a straw, for your emergency cup of tea for keeping you fortified during your battles. You can obtain long straws, or link some together (secured with masking tape so they don't come apart when supping, or sipping.

@twatts45 Жыл бұрын

Fiery but mostly successful landing

@philipfoster7269 Жыл бұрын

I dint think British commanders underestimated the Argentine air forces at all. They knew the risks, they knew that war means people are going to die but they just deal with it. I wish Razbam would give us the Harrier 2 Plus. At least it has a radar. We can't really simulate a Sea Harrier with the one we have.

@geoffreyofmonmouth9796 Жыл бұрын

You're right about the under-estimation. They did the best that they could with what the politicians let them have. No AWACS, no decent air defence on ships, no "proper" aircraft carrier.

@tomriley5790 Жыл бұрын

I believe there's a sea harrier coming...

@fhlostonparaphrase Жыл бұрын

Yes, that initial statement about being "struck harder than the RN anticipated" grated on me as well. Sounds like something you would hear on the "History" channel or the like.

@K1NKYG4M3R Жыл бұрын

From what I remember, the RN anticipated losing a carrier. Reagan allegedly offered the UK the use of a US carrier battle fleet on attachment for the duration of the conflict (it wasn’t a “war”, there was no declaration of war from either side).

@patricktho6546 Жыл бұрын

8:00 they prefered to give the island away and and move the population, but they when they were attaked, they had the will to defend it

@5Andysalive Жыл бұрын

Ever since i saw the oversimplified video on the Pig war, i feel these two are kinda similar just one war went hot and one got prevented. And the islands involved were and are probably eqully as relevant today. He made one about the Falklands war as well. Not going very deep into the war but quite a bit more into the history of the conflict. Which again involved sheep.

@tomsoki5738 Жыл бұрын

Oil and natural gas has been discovered around the Falklands, which just so happens to be correlated to the Argentine government increasingly reasserting their claim to the islands. And don’t forget it serves and a huge military base for the British in case Britain or it’s allies ever had to fight a war in the South America’s

@jacksprat9172 Жыл бұрын

As I recall, the bbc explained in detail exactly why the British ships were 'lucky'. The next day, that lead to them being very unlucky because the bbc had helpfully reported that the bombs were being dropped from too low an altitude and weren't getting the time necessary to arm themselves which is why they were hitting the ships without exploding. That bbc report lead to an adjustment in Argentine tactics and several ships went down with the biggest loss of life in The Falklands War, many of them, as this report says, only 17 years old. Several hundred young men lost their lives, others were maimed for life both physically and mentally because of it. The soldiers on land had a much harder time too because The Atlantic Conveyor was sunk and that carried all the transport chinooks, we only had one left. As a result the army had to walk over 50 miles before they even begun fighting, without the artillery support they should've had(also sunk/no transport). Who gets to play the part of the bbc?

@tmanthemost1157 Жыл бұрын

Argentina found a way to manipulate the bombs that were being dropped on the British navy to explode on impact but they didn’t figure this out until June which would have been very useful during the battle of San Carlos

@mrdlama4036 Жыл бұрын

I remember HMS Glasgow coming home from the Falkland’s and she had a big patch on her side from a bomb that passed right through her without exploding Many ships got very lucky in that conflict

@tmanthemost1157 Жыл бұрын

@@mrdlama4036 too bad it didn’t explode unfortunately

@mrdlama4036 Жыл бұрын

@@tmanthemost1157 You died like cowards in a hole in the ground Diego crying for your mama’s And the Belgrano crew died a slow cold death left like ice cubes And Your army folded like a pack of cheap Chinese cards 😂 I know it hurts but get over it as leaving sneaky comments is the best a Argentinian can do to a proud Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We already sailed to your own doorstep and bitch slapped you Your navy could not sail a few hundred miles to even try to put up a half hearted attempt at some honour …no they ran away and never left port AGAIN

@tomsoki5738 Жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the war, just caused more casualties

@tmanthemost1157 Жыл бұрын

@@tomsoki5738 the outcome would’ve changed if Argentina started massacring the civilians

@TheJedivendelbo Жыл бұрын

I have made the "Lever the wrong way" about 100 times :P

@hapman8063 Жыл бұрын

Hey cap a bit unrelated but I would love to see a new war-games series to see if the use and its allies could take the island of Hainan.I do believe that if war was to break out the USA would try and take the island. I loved watching the china vs Taiwan vid and I feel like you could reverse it now. You could use the Cyprus map as an analogue as you fit in the china vs Gawain vid. Much love cap!

@grimreapers Жыл бұрын

Cool thx

@BSJWright Жыл бұрын

Hi, I was wondering if you could put the link to the skins/github mod in the description as well please?

@JonnyBarmCake Жыл бұрын

The Vulcan story!!! I wish they had it it in DCS!!! They obliterated the runways and just about made it back!!!! Cap don’t tell me you wouldn’t get moist in control of the “Howl” lol. Much love mate.

@brendanmalone-ewing6535 Жыл бұрын

Already requested it haha!

@TristanSplunge Жыл бұрын

Obliterated? Hardly. Argies filled in the one crater they actually made on runway within a day.

@Davros-vi4qg Жыл бұрын

Mmm…. Obliterated, nope. One bomb on the runway. Which took the entire air refuelling fleet of the RAF to achieve. Remarkable, heroic, strategically brilliant, but not tactically effective.

@grimreapers Жыл бұрын

Yup, will do it as soon as I can :)

@tomsoki5738 Жыл бұрын

@@Davros-vi4qg Tactically and strategically important. Tactically: it prevented C130’s being sent with more reinforcements of troops and equipment, and strategically it showed Britain could strike the Argentine mainland if provoked.

@orsonincharge4879 Жыл бұрын

Lots of standard issue mustaches in those LC's

@leesp2 Жыл бұрын

Great content as usual Cap. Whats your specs nowadays? Would be helpful for viewers to see what you're running to assist in future upgrades. Is it listed somewhere? Thanks :)

@5Andysalive Жыл бұрын

they made a video on exactly that pretty recently.

@grimreapers Жыл бұрын

AMD5900X 3080 32gb

@rupben01 Жыл бұрын

I must admit. Since ex combat pilots have joined Grim Reapers. Cap’s voice has dropped and is not so full on. I think he is starting to appreciate aero communications. ‘NOW WATCH THIS’ Has disappeared. Thanks Cap for bringing in real flyers into the group.

@jmccallion2394 Жыл бұрын

Cap, if I remember, the Argentines showed an interest in the Harrier when it first came out. What about what-if combat with the argies flying the harrier in the Falklands?

@seanmataya2290 Жыл бұрын

Any idea if there's going to be a Avro Vulcan mission?

@grimreapers Жыл бұрын

When we get access to plane.

@seanmataya2290 Жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers sweet can't wait will be legendary

@denmstrsn Жыл бұрын

Any landing you can walk away from😅

@LondonSteveLee Жыл бұрын

@58Minutes - no way a Mirage flying at that altitude would have survived over the fleet - Sea Dart or Sea Cat fodder.

@foznoth Жыл бұрын

Could have had the one Chinook that made it there. Apparently did the work of multiple. Not sure what it would do in this scenario, or if it was ashore by this point in the proceedings.

@foznoth Жыл бұрын

@@Davros-vi4qg There is a community mod, here is the GR video showcasing it.. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbGpmNh91rylmH0.html

@Davros-vi4qg Жыл бұрын

At about 38 mins in CAP passes the only Chinook over the Falklands 😀

@foznoth Жыл бұрын

@@Davros-vi4qg yep, the only one they got off the Atlantic Conveyor. Also still holds the record for the most troops onboard.

@andreartymiuk Жыл бұрын

Chinook Bravo November was the only one to survive the Atlantic Conveyor. In our mission I had it operating over San Carlos... in fact it was busy over Bluff Cove. The loss of the chinooks had a major impact. They were intended to be the primary Troop and logistics transport for the troops attacking Stanley. Without them the troops had the horrible task of advancing across the island on foot carrying all their equipment.

@chriscroumbie-brown6914 Жыл бұрын

Always wondered why they didn't slap some Paint on the Canberra

@grimreapers Жыл бұрын

agree

@petecook1000 Жыл бұрын

Time and effort. It also had the effect of misleading the Argentines into believing she was a hospital ship, so she escaped most of the attacks and they concentrated on the warships.

@fhlostonparaphrase Жыл бұрын

Would it matter though? With or without a different paint scheme, its still a huge ship/target, especially in close quarters like that.

@chriscroumbie-brown6914 Жыл бұрын

@@fhlostonparaphrase I think a Big Grey Target would be harder to see than a Big White One - there's something the GR Team could test

@LondonSteveLee Жыл бұрын

Reports from several Argentinian pilots showed many deliberately avoided engaging Canberra thinking she was a hospital ship - she was used as a point of reference during the attacks though. Ironically being painted white probably saved her as multiple attack runs went straight over her head. I presume (although I've never found anything to confirm my suspicions) some pilots would have used her as a shield thinking the British wouldn't shoot towards a hospital ship.

@davidray8337 Жыл бұрын

I wanted to ask which platform this is played on?

@skilgannon5069 Жыл бұрын

This is DCS (Digital Combat Simulator) by Eagle Dynamics on PC.

@davidray8337 Жыл бұрын

@@skilgannon5069 thanks mate 👍

@Falke_Bad-Boys Жыл бұрын

Is there any chance to get this Mission?

@grimreapers Жыл бұрын

Ask Arty in GR discord.

@andreartymiuk Жыл бұрын

drive.google.com/file/d/12z8xXCj9eXUuobhmKlzSl11FGuaHL1RN/view?usp=drivesdk

@CMDRSweeper Жыл бұрын

"Tally means you have seen a baddie" Now Cap, how do you know he isn't a baddie? He may have bad thoughts :D

@WhereNerdyisCool Жыл бұрын

49:35 bloody VR users?

@grimreapers Жыл бұрын

agreed

@WhereNerdyisCool Жыл бұрын

@@grimreapers I don't understand the comment, Cap?

@LondonSteveLee Жыл бұрын

@@WhereNerdyisCool Lack of field of view.

@exiletsj2570 Жыл бұрын

40:40 How is he still this bad? hahahaha

@sarge505050 Жыл бұрын

Harriers? Why didn't you use Nerf cannons?

@tomsoki5738 Жыл бұрын

You mean the aircraft with one the highest kill/loss ratios in history? That “nerf cannon?”

@LondonSteveLee Жыл бұрын

You're carrying too many Sidewinders - the Sea Harriers over the Falklands carried two (although mounting four was possible) - Also the Argentinian planes did not have flares.

@LondonSteveLee Жыл бұрын

PS perhaps that balances itself out because some certain Sidewinder kills were being defeated by flares that wouldn't have been there.

@Jon-da-bad 5 ай бұрын

Am i bad person for being on the Argentinian side.

@Rover200Power Жыл бұрын

Your harriers are the wrong colour Cap, how can you be “La Muerta Negra” with a bright white underbelly?

@GustaHeavy Жыл бұрын

"Muerte negra" was a name invented by british propaganda, argentines never called the Harrier with that nickname.

@Rover200Power Жыл бұрын

@@GustaHeavy Yes, and the Russians will take Kiev within 3 days.

@balker8973 Жыл бұрын

@@Rover200Power GustaHeavy it's true. There is no record of Argentinian pilots calling the Harriers "the black death". And there is a lot of bibliography in Spanish that they simply do not know in England. The pilots called them "Harriers", which is a simple and quick word to understand. On the other hand, the British and Americans use the phrase "The Black Death" to name something in several of their wars. It must be something cultural. But surely not on the Argentine side. My two cents.

@petecook1000 Жыл бұрын

@@balker8973 It's been suggested that the Argentines called Harriers 'botflies' (moscardones), which in Spanish could be mistaken as 'muerta negra' to an untrained ear over a distorted radio reception. In either case, anecdotal evidence from the likes of Sharkey Ward and David Morgan says that the Harrier pilots would taunt the Argentines by broadcasting over unsecured radio "La Muerte Negra ees-a coming!". I have my doubts as the veracity of that claim, as EMCON surely would have prevented it, but I wasn't there and only have their word on it.

@petecook1000 Жыл бұрын

The blue/grey (extra dark sea grey I think it was called, but looked blue to me) and white scheme was painted over as dark sea grey on the voyage down to the Falklands to make the Harriers less visible over both land and sea and in the dark skies.

@bernielobb719 Жыл бұрын

It made me feel quite Angry to see The Falklands called the M word on your map, we fought for The Falklands some of my friends died for them to remain The Falklands and will always so!

@tmanthemost1157 Жыл бұрын

Malvinas son Argentinas so no ! Fuck Britain

@MaxKingsley72 Жыл бұрын

@@tmanthemost1157 hahahahahahaha

@tomsoki5738 Жыл бұрын

@@tmanthemost1157 The flags flying on the Falklands seem to make it pretty clear it’s British. And you know the actual Falklands islands flag has a Union Jack on it…

@tmanthemost1157 Жыл бұрын

@@tomsoki5738 fuck the civilians they don’t belong there they belong in Britain

@FelixstoweFoamForge Жыл бұрын

Those Argentinian pilots were very gutsy men, so a good job the bombs the UK sold the Argentines failed to work reliably eh?

@watcherzero5256 Жыл бұрын

You mean the French Exocets? There were allegations that a British SAS team had covertly sabotaged a batch that France provided during the war, and they certainly helped Britain hoover up Exocets on the secondary arms market to prevent resupply. France didnt provide the IFF kill codes they put in the exports to prevent them being used again French ships though (at least not before the British losses) as this would have destroyed their credibility as an arms supplier.

@petecook1000 Жыл бұрын

@@watcherzero5256 Probably a reference to the fact that many of the bombs dropped in San Carlos by the Argentines failed to detonate. Thirteen bombs struck British ships and failed to detonate. It was thought that the Argentines were not setting their fuses correctly to account for the low level attacks and the bombs did not arm. This was reported in the British press and their bombing became more successful as a result, most notably the sinking of HMS Coventry.

@LondonSteveLee Жыл бұрын

The bombs worked as designed - they issue is they were being dropped below the minimum fuse height because they were scared of Sea Dart.

@FelixstoweFoamForge Жыл бұрын

@@watcherzero5256 No I mean the 500lb MK82's the UK sold the Argentines.

@FelixstoweFoamForge Жыл бұрын

@@LondonSteveLee Not what I was told by a salior who was there.

@JK-dv3qe Жыл бұрын

geography and common sense would maybe state that the Falklands should be Argentinian. but the people there feel they belong to UK. so the UK intervened militarily. could we maybe equate that to a 'current' conflict? 🤔🤔🤔

@pradobombillo Жыл бұрын

the people of the falklands are british because in 1833 they killed all the argentinians who lived there.

@Utubesuperstar Жыл бұрын

Not at all the same Russia has zero right to Ukraine

@tmanthemost1157 Жыл бұрын

@@Utubesuperstar if Britain is for it then I’m against it so go Russia !

@MaxKingsley72 Жыл бұрын

@@tmanthemost1157 angry little man can’t even win a war off ur own shores hahahahahaha

@JK-dv3qe Жыл бұрын

the Falklands conflict is an interesting one. The Falklands islands are wayyyyy the fuck away from the UK, but the residents there feel like British citizens (i respect that). People in Donbass feel like Russian citizens. So the Ukraine intervention is a lot like the Falklands war (minus the fact that Falklands is 99998 miles away from UK and Donbass is actually on border of Russia)

@FelixstoweFoamForge Жыл бұрын

Wow. Respect for openly stating what a lot of people are going to find a contentious viewpoint sir!

@JK-dv3qe Жыл бұрын

@@FelixstoweFoamForge I don't find it hugely contentious. There are soooo many similarities. The UK felt they were in the right intervening on behalf of population that felt they belonged to other country. And I think they were in the right. That makes current conflict in Europe kinda similar. I respect anyone disagreeing ofc, we should all be allowed to have opinions

@FelixstoweFoamForge Жыл бұрын

@@JK-dv3qe I didn't mean you found it contentious buddy. Just that others might. I don't, and like I said, respect for saying it. As to everyone's right to hold opinions, I quote Voltaire: "sir, I will fight to the death against this opinion, but I will fight to the death to defend your right to hold it". Free speech is vital.

@exiledone69 Жыл бұрын

Love russian propagandists

@JK-dv3qe Жыл бұрын

@@exiledone69 very sharp and 'on point' comment. please congratulate Yourself