The Tank that Shot Down a Fighter Jet
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- March 28, 1982. The Falklands War raged on. British and Argentine forces fought in the air, ground, and sea. Supporting the infantry were four FV107 Scimitar Light Reconnaissance Vehicles constantly racing from one enemy position to another at over 80 kilometers per hour while decimating entrenched positions with their powerful 30-millimeter cannon.
Suddenly, one of the Scimitars found itself across an open field when 18-year-old Reg Hastings spotted an Argentine Mirage fighter swooping in. In a moment charged with adrenaline, the Briton took his chances and unleashed a barrage of high-explosive shells from the Rarden cannon.
As he tracked the jet through his sights, Hastings recalled: (QUOTE) “I half panicked.” His fourth round struck below the cockpit, sending the Mirage to a fiery demise and demonstrating Britain’s nimble Scimitar’s lethal efficacy.
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Please quit showing clips of other random vehicles during the video.
yep total agree what's that about?
or what...? 😂
Ok, so if you want to complain about them not using the correct vehicles, why don't you email them 15mins worth of footage of the vehicles? If you can't find it, then don't worry about it.
Shows a British harrier while talking about the shoot down of a Argentine mirage, then later there is a half second clip of an Argentine Etendard/Super Etendard, constant Challenger clips
Please make your own channel. where you can do better.
'I'd rather have the enemy in front of me than the US Air Force behind me'! --Quoted by many British armed forces personnel during the Iraqi conflicts!
My friend who was a Army Reserve got called up (to his shock as he had just become a Father 1 month before) and went into battle with the Front Armour Plate placed in the Back as they knew the Iraqi's were not as good a shot as the Americans who were following in (support)!!
The 2 USAF Colonels responsible for murdering, NOT a Red on Red, the Royal Fusiliers were RUSHED BACK TO USA to prevent them been put on trial.
Do you mean above me? Instead of behind? There were a bunch for UK armed forces that got killed and serious wounded by a pair of US A10s in a friendly fire incident, to quote from the coroner "the USAAF pilots were acting like cowboys in the sky with complete disregard for life," the UK military complied with every NATO and military doctrine clearly marking them as friendly forces even using large bright orange panels (even the US did the same) and the American pilot saw "bright orange rockets" like how the fuck can to see bright orange square panels as bright orange rockets ??
The pilots were heard on the gun tapes bragging and saying all types of horrible shit over their radios until they realised they had killed and seriously wounded friendly troops. they only found out when a British fighter jet intervened, then one A10 pilot was sick inside the cockpit and both pilots said they were going to prison for life. The pair of A10s that kept on strafing them over and over even after they called the planes off over the radio by one British soldier who was burning to death inside his IFV, that's how the word got out back to command then the British fighter jet intervened.
Such a horrific incident that could have been very easily been avoided
My God,I didn't know about this.😔
The worst thing you can hear before going on an op: "The Americans are going to be providing the close air support"...
The amount of errors on all of the Dark channels are staggering. No matter the topic you can count on at lest 10+ errors. I watch these videos to kill time not for actual info.
True. Quality is bottom 5 , with hype/music for gamers. Please do not base any serious research on any of theses series.
The Falkland Islands were first colonized by the British in 1764 and officially became a British territorial possession in 1833. Although Argentina had basically secured its independence from Spain in 1819, it was then involved in an on again off again civil war between Buenos Aires and the hinterland until 1861, and even then a stable modern Republic of Argentina did not emerge until 1880. Remember that the next time an Argentinian "patriot" starts claiming that "las Malvinas" belongs to Argentina.
In February 1594 Sir Richard Hawkins was the first to discover the Falkland Islands and he first called it Hawkins Maidenland.
It wasn't a mirage jet but an A-4 Skyhawk.
Scimitars also provided air defence support with machine guns and 30 mm guns; on 23 May 1982, a Scimitar claimed a 30 mm hit on a Skyhawk at 1,000 m
I've never seen any of his videos match the dialogue period so I just listened to them.
Well corrected
Good going as they only use four round clips and manual traversing/elevation turret
Anyone else notice the random blonde woman in shot tits out?
If the. Argys had planned this War they would have won ! Good luck on assembling another task force !
In the second battle The Brits would have gone nuclear !
Always loved learning more about the Falklands War
Interestingly, it wasn't a war as war was never declared by either sides.
@@marlenehoy2487 ah, yet another 'police act' I see 😂
It's about a tank, not the conflict. RARDEN L21 gun fires ammunition developed from the Hispano-Suiza 831-L round, former Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment (RARDE) and Royal Ordnance developed ammunition. This what the FV107 fires, not the HEI rounds stated and it wasn't a Mirage but an Argentene A-4 Skyhawk shot down, which are only some of the fallacies stated here but who's counting, after all as pointed out, it wasn't even a war but a conflict.
Love the random clips mixed in with vehicles totally unrelated to this
Other than having no idea what a Scimitar looks like, Whats the purpose of showing a Challenger tank over and over again. While making no mention of it in the narrative?
Why do you keep interspersing another, larger tank image? It is utterly confusing!
Australian Centurion did that in Korea, aged a MIG with a 20 pound shell.
Please some Australian , tell the story of Australian Centurion tank that survived a nuclear bomb test, and was put back into service in the fifties.
Actually it was done during ww2 on the Eastern Front. Tiger tank shot down a Sturmovik. Otto Carius if i remember correctly, gunner was Bobby Wolthoff i think? Open to correction.
I have read about the incident as well 👍
Last I checked, the Il-2 isn't a fighter jet.
But that was a Piston Engined aircraft fitted with a Propeller.
This was a fast low level jet.
Not sure, Bobby Wolthoff was Micheal Wittman's gunner though and an incredible shot
Somebody mentioned it in a video. It may have been Mark Felton.
FV107 Scimitar is an armoured reconnaissance vehicle, not a Tank.
its a light tank 😁
It's a light tank- recon is what they do
The only place it's called a light tank is youtube comments, WT/WOT forums. Alvis used CVR(T) in the blueprints, the british cavalry decided to classify it as an armoured reconnaissance vehicle. Not a single country that uses or have used the CVR(T) have called it a tank. AFVs aren't tanks and never have been.
Not a tank. At the start you state it has a 30mm gun when the clip shows a actual tank with a big tank gun.
As a British infanteer, we would call these tanks and not be losers classing them as anything else, tankies may but that’s when we would call them remfs
I’m buying 4 when u win the lottery.
Got to be said, again. A Scimitar CVRT, is NOT a Tank! It is a reconnaissance vehicle. RARDE Fort Halstead, now unfortunatley history.
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Thank you for sharing this
i'm feeling a little....dubious about this. I mean, it's Dark, so the chances of it actually being true are not that high; notwithstanding this channel's amazing capacity to confuse tanks, aircraft, almost anything really.
@Dark Docs, wrong Stiker shown in the video near the end there, the one you have shown is the american M1128, youre looking for the Alvis Striker :)
People that owned Jaguars didn't care about fuel efficiency.
I was in the army in the 70's and also a member of the Jaguar Drivers Club as I was trying to restore a 1956 XK 140 drophead. One of the the club members was a civilian engineer at the Military Vehicles Experimental Establishment. Having experienced the conditions vehicle mechanics worked under in the field I asked him how they could be expected to service the twin overhead cam XK engine out there. He said that as armoured vehicles are hard on their engines it was expected that the engines would be regularly removed for rebuild so the normal service interval tasks didn't apply. I don't know if that turned out to be true.
@@peterodonnell5820 you know way more than I do
The scimitar is being replaced by the new Ajax Armored recon series now.
i thought it was replace by the scorpion
@@eddjordan2399 Scimitar and Scorpion were developed and came into service concurrently but Scimitar proved better and outlived Scorpion in British Army service. Many Scorpions, however, were given a new lease of life with new turrets taken from Fox armoured cars and then continued to serve as "Sabres". Sabre by vitrue of its Fox turret has the same RARDEN 30mm cannon as Scimitar.
@@Twirlyheadnot completely true the Scorpion had not fume extraction system and the RAF regiment crews in particular complained about it so it was withdrawn from service but many were converted using the fox turret same 30 mm raiden gun, that said many countries are still using scorpion including the 90 mm gun version
@@eddjordan2399 Scorpion (76mm Short Barrel Gun as on the earlier Saladin Armoured Car) and Scimitar replaced the Saladin and then the Sabre replaced the Scimitar and Scorpion. I think ALL of the withdrawn vehicles were in Ukraine?
US A10 also fired on two warrior IFV in the gulf despite British vehicles using the agreed day glow orange roof markings to indicate friendly forces
I was a gunner/driver of these in the Blues and Royals regiment
One Micky “Bullet Magnet” Flynn one of the most decorated British soldiers who served in every war since the Falklands was part of B squadron on the Falkland Islands in 1982
On the 23 May 1982 a Blues & Royals Scimitar 23 Charlie commanded by Col K Fisher, claimed a 30mm round hit a Dassault Mirage and downed it, but this was later changed to an A4 Skyhawk. The 8 vehicles, 4 CVR(T) Scimitar and and 4 CVR(T) Scorpions did sterling work in the Kalklands War. One Scimitar was damaged by a land mine, but it was later repaired and returned to service.
I remember both the Falklands Conflict and that blue-on-blue incident. I was a teen when the UK went up against Argentina and had just left the Army when the Gulf War began after Operation Desert Shield/Storm. I followed the wars against Iraq and Afghanistan closely and the memory of what my commander in the Army had always complained about: No coordinated communication between US Navy, Air Force and Marines/Army on the ground, let alone the near-impossible communication between NATO/UN foreign forces with US forces and how a major blue-on-blue incident was going to happen if allied forces of NATO or the UN could not get their comms interconnected.
He foresaw such an incident should mixed nation forces ever end up on the same battlefield, and that was just a few years before that incident took place. When it did, remembering the frustration my commander had (I can still see it in his eyes today) when he talked about lack of coordinated battlefield communication. He knew friendly fire incidents were going to happen simply due to lack of comms standardization.
In those wars, the US Air Force wiped out US Marines as well as that incident mentioned in this video... all due to uncoordinated communication between forces.
Thankfully, a lot of that has been cleared up in today's time.
My personal favorite was a call by a USMC unit "Can we get support from anyone with USMC on their tail, even USN, but no USAAF." Something to that as I remember. The person who made the call got chewed out later after he and his men survived. Thanks to a USMC ground support aircraft.
We put the Alvis 76 mm turret on our M113A1 and they were very good.
Op Corporate only had 2 troops of light armour. Useful as they were, the need for Squadron HQ and support on deployments was one of the Post Action Report's conclusions.
Many assume that the Scorpion's 75mm gun was better than the 30mm cannon that Scimitar has but no, the RARDEN cannon is very acccurate and effective.
The RARDEN L21 gun fires ammunition developed from the Hispano-Suiza 831-L round, former Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment (RARDE) and Royal Ordnance developed ammunition. Acuurate and deadly, being the best part of the tank, saved for the Cummins powerdrive. One of the greatest!
There's a reason it was carried forward onto the Warrior
Your video intersperses clips of the Scimitar with clips of the *much* heavier and much more powerful British Challenger 1 MBT, which has a 17-pounder gun. It is confusing. And when discussing how the Scimitar actually took down an Argentine Mirage fighter, it would be more appropriate if you actually **showed a Mirage fighter,** easily identifiable with their Delta-wing configuration.
That’s a cool looking piece. I like tanks. I’ve never seen one so small. But that lil thing looks cool.
Scimitar took out more Aircraft than the RAF
A bit of context regarding armoured vehicles in the Falklands:
The islands are too boggy to be practical for heavy armour, hence neither side sent MBTs. The args landed with AMTRAK amphibians before withdrawing them, but also some light Panhard armoured cars which didn't leave Stanley. The British used Scimitar/Scorpion, which, being made mainly of aluminium, had such low ground pressure they could drive over the bogs. Anecdotally, a crewman jumped off his vehicle to the ground and immediately sank up to his waist
Yes. Their ground pressure was less than that of an infantry boot with a man on top. Currently serving in Ukraine.
Also looks like the Scimitar Mark 2 has vastly upgraded optics and possibly thermal imaging. Adding some FGM 148 Javs would be a good idea too
So many mistakes it’s crazy. THE entire CVRT fleet has been retired and many have been sent to Ukraine. The AJAX family of vehicles are being rolled out to replace them as we speak.
I think it could have been vastly ip graded and stll used now,especially with baf terrain
Not the first time a Tank shot down an aircraft, the first one happened in 1943 in the Eastern Front, Panzer Ace Otto Carius' Tiger I gunner shot down an Ilyushin IL-2 Stormovik by clipping the wing as it attacked Carius' position.
The only image missing here was an ATAT walker. 😖
Isn't the last up grade of the Scimitar refered to as the "Sabre"?
90 rounds a minute you're HAVING A LAUGH!!! When it as to be loaded by HAND
I did this in battlefield 4 all the time
"Great kid, don't get cocky" -- Han Solo.
Scruffy nerf herder😅
Dark get your info right.
at 11:04 was it an accidental repeat? Good video 🔥
In 1982 while i was learning to drive in south Wales with the RAF a member of the RAF Regiment was fined and given 3points on his driving licence for doing 75 MPH on an A Road he didn't buy a beer for many month's...
I trained in the 76mm version the Scorpion
I can remember seeing one of these fast vehicles that had somehow found itself nearly up in a tree after a bit of an accident. Looked quite comical at the time! Somebody had a bit of explaining to do!!!😉
British and German tanks, have an advantage, no other nation shares. Experience, earned on the battlefield, paid for with human loss.
So only 2 nations ever used tanks? wow! I bet you are 12.
Decades ago back when my buddies and I just started duck hunting we were in our teens and hadn't learned the fiine art of leading your target before squeezing off i could of definitely used one of these units for pulling off John Wayne shots a mile away.
Its duck shooting. Not hunting
@keastymatthew2407 whaa whaa whaa! Yeah ok baby shoes 👶😭
If was duck shooting then we wouldn't need a hunting license or need a federal duck stamp or a state stamp . So ya it's called duck hunting.
You don't need any of the government pocket picking if you go to a turkey shoot and usually your shooting paper .
Indian term for vegetarian is shitty hunter
If you like this, then look up the time a British sniper took on an Argentinian Battleship.
Royal marines will do that kind of thing, the charlie G gunner holed the frigate too at the waterline
Not a battleship! I'm being pedantic lol.
Was that the battle were one of the marines tooled himself up with multiple axes?
If you want one, they are available from a number of Military sales companies.
But for Civilian sales, they remove of the Firing Mechanism from the Cannon, to stop anyone trying to do a real "Citizen Smith".
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Damn I can't find the scene where he steals the Alvis Scorpion from the TA and takes it to the Houses of Parliament.
only in battlefield
If one thing can be said about the Brits - without question, they know how to make a cannon. Even better than the 'Mericans. Who always go too small. 😂
However the US usually goes for a higher fire rate, since they literally invented the machine gun during the American Revolution. And successfully used it against the British Navy.
And you're missing the MAIN POINT about NOT using a petrol engine in any military vehicle. Petrol explodes in enclosed spaces, and any incidiary shell (or even 50 Cal) round could eliminate it. Diesel on the other hand doesn't explode. Which is why every military avoids using petrol engines these days.
Way too much detail on this one I just want to know how it got shot down
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Wow that a new one on me. 👍
Ukraine have certainly appreciated the CVRT's that have been donated, Working really well against the Enemy they were designed to fight!
That's not even a tank...
My dad was in 2 para at goose green and wireless ridge the ground was to wet to use most vehicles army air core were more useful never used them at goose green the way your talking on here is like there a game changer
Looks like the War Thunder Fox
The Falklands war wasn't some fecking stupid game bollock chops
why didn't they take missiles on tanks?
So not tank at all, then
WAR ,WAR AND MORE WAR ,,DARK 5 LOVES WAR ,,
I Want One!!
They sell them now. After they were retired years ago.
"tank"?
Love your content but you need a lot more research the vehicle you showed at the end was not the Samson recovery variant it was the scheduled replacement vehicle for the CVR(T) family the problematic Ajax which is larger heavier slower and looking less and less attractive by the day. They've fitted ot with a much more modern stabilized digital turret with all the bells and whistles including improving the already excellent sights fitted to the original CVR(T) and Warrior AFV's which the crews are very excited about using once all the kinks have been fixed and the extra armour could be helpful but it kind of comromises their ability to duck behind handy terrain features or into dense woods quickly to avoid all the nasty big guns which is very important in a light reconnaissance vehicle. Those of is who served on the CVR(T) crews were well aware our survival depended on avoiding at all costs large chunks of metal flying at us very fast because no light vehicle can carry enough armour to stop more than a lucky glancing hit and we loved the vehicles for their ability to do that. They were relatively quiet moved like a rabid weasel and could hide behind a garden shed. We called the vehicles coke cans because the hull was thin aluminium and the cannon gods hot pokey finger of doom because the sights and gun gave the crew the ability to reach out and poke small but nasty holes in things the enemy needed quite badly very far away.
30mm Rarden, high explosive rounds?
Mmmmm, OK
Mmmm yes. And a lot more
@@craighopkins6884 there was a HE round, hardly issued.
Otherwise, APDS. The primary role.
Read on Rarden, even the wiki, then make comments that may matter. I grew up before the internet, and read all the facts in hard research on books. Now you can find it in a flash, and mistakes should not be so numerous.
Jaguar - Jag Yoo Are
Americans be like 'Hug Wuar'
An A20 strafed Canadiantroops in Afghanistan too.
Story, A10, fat finger syndrome.
Technically, the Scimitar wasn't a "tank"; rather a Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) or CVR(T), although I know it has been dubbed as a 'light tank' (as opposed to the MBT or Main Battle Tank).
P.S.: The choice of the background music is still stupid, but at least the volume is much more tolerable now! One can at least hear what's being said & not have one's ears bleed...!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yet Argentinians did not lose an aircraft on 9th of June, There is no recorded shooting down of any Argentinian plane on that day!
Shut up. 😊
They lost fecking loads bollock chops
The claim is this happened at 9,10 am on the 24 th of May
These dark docs vids are so frustrating: narrator mentions a Mirage fighter and we see a Harrier or a Skyhawk. Mentions a 30MM cannon on a Scimitar and we see a Challenger with a 120mm. I pity anyone actually trying to learn anything from these. Also: it’s been YEARS. Learn how to pronounce “fuselage” or stop using it in sentences.
Stop trying to correct someone when you're wrong too
It's not a tank.
It's not a tank, the Scimitar shot down an A4 Skyhawk and if you think that's impressive there was an SAS soldier during the Falklands that shot an enemy jet down using an M240 firing it from the hip, M240 in one hand and ammo belt in the other, fired away and shot it down as it was about to attack the ship he was on. One handed firing a heavy machine gun from the hip just fucking mental, you should do a video on that and don't fuck it up like this one!!!!
Blue on Blue is a sad fact of many operations, by all nations. After D-Day friendly carpet bombing killed hundreds of allies and french civilians. Urban war experience from many theatres agrees 8-9 civilian casualties is usual for each military one. 2024 Gaza is exceptional, by any measure, for how low the civilian ratio has been there 1:~1.5.
You poor little worm.
I find it strange that the “Blue on Blue” was deemed unlawful, and that there were reports of uncooperative behaviour between the two nations, that just doesn’t seem right, and for what reason would there have been for being uncooperative?, I smell a little B.S on that point. If it was deemed an “unlawful” act what would have happened to the pilot(s)?, from the little bit radio traffic that was on screen it doesn’t indicate anything to me other than they were told to break of the attack and that it was confirmed very quickly to be a blue on blue and the casualties, obviously we viewers only have that tiny snippet of information to base an opinion on, that is not enough for me to base my own conclusions upon, perhaps if more information was given it would be a different matter, perhaps Dark Docs should review this video and either give us more information or cut that bit out, it seems unfair to air the incident without all the facts.
At 13:41 the driver is so fat he can barely fit in the hatch.
First! 🎉 Love this channel!
Scimitar mark 2 is called sabre 😂
Thats a Laugh ,The Spanish Colonisatilers are very Funny, Blaiming Britain for Colonisation of an Empty Island, Unless of Course the Penguin spoke Spanish.
bro wth
Striker and Stryker not the same thing