FALKLANDS CONFLICT - LOSS OF HMS SHEFFIELD "The Shiny Sheff."
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- Опубліковано 18 гру 2009
- Captain Sam Salt explains how the Sheffield was lost and praises his crew. Crew of HMS Sheffield fly back to Britain, landing at RAF Brieze Norton. THANKS TO BBC AND ITN POOLED NEWS
I remember sitting in our living room watching that interview with Capt. Salt on the news, and my mum saying quietly "for God's sake leave the poor man alone"...
Astonishing that Capt Salt was required to give this interview after losing his ship and many sailors. He’s obviously traumatised by events.
I love the metaphor “On a losing wicket.”’ Referencing the game of cricket is so British. RIP HMS Sheffield and Rest in Peace to all the galant crew aboard that day and those who have passed away since.
BBC's Brian Hanrahan & ITN's Michael Nicholson conduct this interview, at a time when Journalists were truly professional, not interupting or asking absurd & irrelevant questions. RIP to both of them and Capt Sam Salt & his lost men, all a credit to the UK.
Well that brought a tear to my eye.
Captain's demeanour. His report on the spot. Who could question such supreme calm and acceptance of reality. It was what it was. No flower no bluster excuse expropriation. My ship(s) had such a manager. We demanded and respected it.
Looks like he was reading it
It's 40 years ago today since Sheffield was hit and sunk. As one who served, "Falklands 40" has a new meaning this year as I recall what is as clear now as it was then. RIP those who paid the ultimate price and did not return home and to their families and friends who hopefully have found strength in the passing years to carry on.
An independent journalist interviewing a military man after a catastrophic loss and then sent on air on TV in the democratic country that suffered the loss. Another world... unthinkable today on our dictatorial main stream media
RIP Captain Salt now at rest with his men , God bless them all . RIP in calm sea's
Such brave men. God bless them all and the families of the fallen!
I photographed the HMS Sheffield in Singapore, quite possibly the last US Sailor to see her before she met her disastrous end. Fair Winds and Following Seas, Rest In Peace Shipmates. (GMCS, USN (Retired) '64-'86).
+James Vetzel dont be shy, put up whatever audio / video you have and tell us a story of days gone by.
Rest assured there are many of us who would listen ;)
+John Smith Just a general comment. It use to be that the main duty of the Destroyer/Destroyer Escort/ Frigate was to "Block That Torpedo" now it's "Block that Torpedo and/or Missile". It's the sacrifice we Destroyer Men undertake.
All of the Pro Argentina comments lead of with "If we only had just 5 more..." Then what? 5 more...? Argentina would have been smoked within a week after England, Australia, New Zealand and Canada had came together, The United States would have either remained "Neutral" (Covertly supplying Munitions) or joined Great Britain. No other South American Country (with any smarts) would have joined Argentina for fear of losing its entire Naval Forces Ala Belgrado. Spain was hoping that it would just go away.
+James Vetzel We Destroyer men are the thin grey line protecting the rest of the Task Force. I have served on 3 Destroyers. HMS Newcastle, HMS Liverpool and HMS Dragon. I have been to the Falklands twice. Argentina lost the Islands the moment the Task Force sailed. They did not have the Air Force that could take on the RN/RAF Harriers fitted with Sidewinder kindly sold to us by the US. Once they had expended all their Exocet missiles they had nothing left. It's unfortunate that defence cuts meant that Phalanx was not fitted to our Destroyers as it should have been. If it had, we probably wouldn't have lost Sheffield or Coventry. That notwithstanding, Coventry alone shot down 20 Argentinian aircraft before she was sadly on 25 May. If losses had continued Britain would have taken the gloves off and started sinking Argentinian warships within their own Territorial Waters. SSN's were there watching every move their navy made. We knew where all their destroyers were, where their submarines were and where their Aircraft Carrier was.
Justin Lee Thanks for your service, and no im not american ;). You should write a book, put on paper your story, there are many of us who buy servicemens stories as we find them fascinating.
I think something that camer from the falkland conflict is how victory relied often on individuals on not pure technology. No helos to fly? Tighten your boots, its yomping time. Legendary.
***** The Paras and Commandoes God bless 'em. We Matelots might take the mick but it's born from respect. We learned a few things from the FI. Smoke kills, nylon melts, and that Sea Survival Training and CIWS are a necessity.
Look up the book "Return to Bomb Alley 1982 - The Falkands Deception", by Paul Cardin, which came out in late March 2022. This provides a well-researched, alternate story from the settled record of events that the BBC and others have been keen to push.
It would do us all well to reconsider, and not be so easily charmed by the captured, establishment media. I won't explain it all here, save to say I was on HMS Yarmouth, about two miles away from the Sheffield when she was hit. We tried to firefight, but without success. The heat was far too intense. Torpedoes were fired at us by an unknown sub - possibly Russian - and we broke away to pursue it. We returned later to rescue Captain Salt and a small number of his fellow crew members. HMS Arrow recovered the majority of the surviving Sheffield crew. I believe our deeply unpopular Prime Minister desperately needed to turn her situation around after the summer '81 riots, inflation at 18%, a potential rebellion inside her own party, and an approval rating of just 23%, the lowest ever recorded for any UK PM. My book goes into great detail on hers and her ministers' strange, secretive behaviour and movements. Post-conflict, these were soon hidden away for 30 years. With that nicely out of the way, and the dead and injured forgotten, there was an election to fight and an electorate to gaslight via an unseemly onslaught of flag-waving and tub-thumping. For those who believe the Sheffield was deliberately scuttled, think again. We took her under tow to deliver her broken carcass to the tug Salvageman. But some days later, as described here, the weather turned and she began to take on water. She went over and the fella tasked with swinging the axe and cutting the ha.wser in the event this occurred ... simply did his job. Down she went. We needed to stay afloat and carry on prosecuting the fight.
brave captain, brave crew and brave ship. god bless
R. I. P. Thought to every crew and family in the Navy to defend the British state in operational by conflict in military.
One who repose in hell
I had the morning watch onboard HMS Alderney in the North Sea (Fishery Protection duties) when I heard the news on the radio about Sheffield. I remember well calling the Captain and advising him of what had happened and then the First Lieutenant, completely forgetting that his brother was serving in Sheffield, the silence as I told him seemed to last forever. I was then privileged to serve in the next Sheffield as Operations Officer in 90/91. It is hard to describe how tough it was in 1982 NOT to be in the Falklands, nothing like as tough as it was being down there of course, but still tough.
Sheffield wasn`t hit by a missile.
The coverup is over
That is not a missile hole in the starboard of the Sheffield.
The sheet metals are outwards.
There was something else coming out the ship.
@@alexm7743 stop spreading bullshit, the exocet missiles dont just explode at touch, they enter the ship and explode once inside thats why they were so lethal during the war
@@franciscosansalone The metal plates (sheets) are facing out... that is not an entry hole!
@@alexm7743 im aware of that, again, the Exocet missiles arent a bullet, they dont go trought the whole ship, they enter the ship then explode, they wouldn't leave a huge enter hole either because they are long but thin (size of a human leg) that hole is where the explosion of the missle must have concentrated
@@franciscosansalone Ok... so, where is the misile entry hole?... because the pictures show a huge "exit" hole (naval engineers say it was the product of the exit of a generator)
RIP in peace Sir.on back on duty with his men now. never forgotten.
Fun fact about the Torpedoed vessel they mentioned at the beginning, that was the ex USS Phoenix, Brooklyn class light cruiser, veteran of WW2, she was the second one of her class to be lost in combat (the first being USS Helena, which also sank to Torpedoes, except Helena was sunk by the infamous "Long Lance" launched by Japanese Destroyers).
I was on that ship, it was the worst moments of my life, so many dead and heroic actions
Do you remember on what day the Sheffield was hit?... it was sunday or saturday?
@@Renaissance_Kamikaze ciws was massively invested in by every major navy post Falklands
@@alexm7743 it was Tuesday on 4th May 1982
@@sasmitadas4866 It was not on tuesday because on tuesday the state of the sea was stirred with waves...
In the pictures of the Sheffield burning the state of the sea is totally calm!... this state of the sea coincides with the conditions of May 1.
So, the Sheffield was hit on 1st of may.
you deserved to be one of those
My Mother is from Scotland, and my Father is from Argentina. This was a very sad time..fortunately I had the chance the view this from both sides. To all British and Argentines commenting....the war was a mistake, it was stupidity...on both sides really. The islands are of little importance, an idiot dictator pulling strings and Maggie....nuff said. RIP to those on both sides who lost lives, and to their families who lost out the most. At the end of the day...who wins from this?
Rob footer Well said sir.
Well said. Today's dysfunctional relationship between the two countries remains deeply depressing; we could be working really well, together, on so many levels :(
Ganó el imperialismo
Lamentablemente
No se si entendi bien.lo que escribiste ...pero para la Argentina ..no son islas de poca importancia las Islas Malvinas..son una causa nacional...nunca Argentina dejara de reclamarlarlas como suyas ..a pesar del resultado del conflicto...
@@juliof9457 que pena. Un pais tan grande como Argentina es obsesionado con estas pequeñas islas. Teneis suficiente espacio por mil milliones de personas, y siempre quereis mas. Por que? Codicia e imperialismo.
The chefs of the Sheffield all worked with as in Nelson Wardroom/M.galleys. Good young hard working lads. I salute them remember them for ever especially my friend PO. Bob Fagan The supply officer was my DO. on board HMS.Brighton
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Sad but true😔..
Captain Salt seems a real gentleman.
Thanks for letting us sink your shit I mean ship!
met the Chief Greenie from Sheffield at Staff College Canberra in 2004 - he gave an amazing recount of what happened on Sheffield.
Resolution 502 granted the UK's right to put into effect article 51, i.e. self-defence. This was because the Falklands was the UK's sovereign territory. So, yes, according to the UN, the UK was the sovereign power.
JAJA sure an uk has veto power..MALVINAS ARGENTINAS! britsh OUT of the SOUTH ATLANTIC!
@@angelmiguel3677 Not as long as there is still breath in a single British serviceman will you ever get your hands on the British Falkland Islands.
After the deaths suffered in 1982, no UK government would ever survive even considering giving them up.
@@originalkk882 what fuck UK is doing in other side of the world, Argentinians should have the malvinas, enough of UK imperialism
@@justangel1517 the uk isn't at the other side of the world. It's in the Falkland Islands. You Spaniards should leave Argentina by the same argument.
@@martynallatt7841 well considering argentina is so close to the falklands dosent that mean argentina belongs to the uk?
Such a shame a catalogue of mistakes running up to this event allowing this to have happened
It's a lovely thing hindsight
Sam salt...my old xo on resolution stbd in the 70s...no longer with us RIP ...resurgam
No mention of the bad luck that the ESM was reportedly switched off to make/receive a SCOT transmission; the incoming Exocet may have been detected otherwise with enough time to turn towards and fire off chaff (which proved to be effective following further Exocet attacks later in the conflict).
There was not an incoming Exocet!... Sheffield was hit by bombs from Mirage V, planes, on saturdary 1st of may.
@@alexm7743 No it wasn't. Sheffield was struck by an Exocet missile on 4th May 1982 and sank under tow on 10th May 1982. HMS Coventry was hit by bombs on 25th May 1982, subsequently capsizing and sinking.
Sorry to bump in.
Think some of you need to show respect, if you wasnt there you cant really comment . if you was there then you would respect for those from both sides who lost their lives .
B Jones - I’m from the United States of America. We have free speech. We may comment on any subject we please, without conditions. I respect those from Argentina who were forced to defend occupied British territory against their will, and who died doing so. I have no respect for any Argentinian who thought it was theirs to take.
My respect goes to all the heroes of the British armed forces who restored the freedom of the people of the Falklands at great risk to themselves. Many of them died in the endeavour.
@@GH-oi2jf shut it old troll USA the land of serial killers and wackos of all kinds, you are a laughing stock!
And now look at the state of the UK today
No picnic
I lost my mate neil good all on that ship
bitch against the brutish king!
What do you mean?
@@jamespatterson447 GA an idiot.
rip boxo
Sam Salt former Cdre Int at MoD.
Argentina has the best drivers without thinking
Exactly
Pilotos argentinos en Malvinas. Los verdaderos TopGum
But the UK had also sold military equipment to the Argentines, including two type 42 destroyers of the same class as Sheffield.
The Hercules and Santísima Trinidad
Thats when we were Allies, yet the Dictatorshit forced us to fight agaisnt UK.
"I have to say they (the Argentines) were very brave". John Forster "Sandy" Woodward, 1997. Do you see this a football/rugby match? Do you know what a coward is? Among other things, to talk about war without knowing anything about it. But I guess you know more than Woodward maybe. What a sad comment. Sorry for you, man.
Don't forget that to divide is to conquer and dont fail in the abyss of generalisation both of you.
Yes there was aissile being use during the faikland war it was an ecocet missile made by france look it up in james fighting book on weapons and misdile
Intact, in most cases, as the delayed fuzes failed to go off.
Saludos al Altantic Conveyor
Alas, they turned off al of their sensors to use the Scott system, in those days you could not use Skynet with sensors on
I seem to recall that just before the conflict over the Falklands (Malvinas) the Argentine leader was facing massive protests regarding his brutal and undemocratic domestic policies. I got the impression, perhaps a false one, that he chose to make war in order to divert attention from his failed domestic policies. Nothing like a war to get people to bury their differences and "rally round the flag!" In lifht of that it seems reasonable to say that the Brittish Navy is without peer, and guarantors of freedom upon the high seas.
Si, tal cual "Nada como una guerra para hacer que las personas entierren sus diferencias y "se reúnan alrededor de la bandera!"
El caso del Gral Galtieri es exactamente igual al de Margaret Tacher. La diferencia es que a Margaret le salio bien.
PURE GARBAGE THEY WOULD NOT HAVE WON THE WAR WITHOUT HELP FROM THE US
In a daily basis Argentinians called the bombing over British ships: "to return the bombs", because conventional bombs used by their planes where made in UK. The bombs where freely returned with no extra charge for UK.
This is a case in point why ships shouldn't be made of cheap alloys that burn easily. Once the ship started burning it would have taken extremely advanced firefighting equipment to douse it.
This was a bit of a myth. Type 42s were all steel, above and below. Sheffields fires were severe and exacerbated by a badly isolated hpsw main, and a devil's device called a "rover gas turbine pump which was a notoriously crap emergency pump. In addition crew training and damage control wasn't up to it, sadly. Lot of lessons learned though.
So how many sailors died on the H.M.S Sheffield ?
20 dead and a further 26 wounded.
Respeto a los ingleses por lo que hicieron en la WW2 , pero con argentina no se juega y se lo hicimos saber muchas veces .
Having been a WEEO - this Captain seems like he was a smart one.
Ahi les va un Exocet AM39...y..saludos a la Reina..!!!
UK suffered hundreds of casualties in this war and even was about to lose, by looking down the rival you underrate British soldiers who fought this war as well
Argentine aviators the world's best
matias gilli they're not the best but they were very skilled. I take my hat off to their bravery.
Lol nope
Yes as a 73-10 loss win ratio is the best the world has ever seen /s
@@birkstnan5527 bruh they literally used planes made a little bit after ww2
@@MrBruh-yb9qi No They didnt the oldest plane they used actively was the Canberra, a bomber from the early fifties that the Brit’s used until 2001, and next was the a4 that was used until 2004 by the US. The Argentinians has by all metrics better planes, with better armament, better kinetics and range. The pilots on the other hand were less than standard.
It was engineering design flaw in electronics .some sailor was using the phone and it left a gap in radar detection to pick up the missile
There was no missile.
That is the reason for all the controversy.
The cover up is over.
And there was no 4th of may.
The real attack was the 1st of may.
using his mobile?
Pedro Ignacio Bean
Gloria a los pilotos Argentinos que combatieron contra la Royal Navy!
btw my father worked on integrating and deploying Sea Dart systems at ASWE in the early 80s, so I guess he had a hand in downing Argentine pilots.
yet again no ciws
With only a dozen more exocet they were left without a fleet !!
French weapon and English weapon forever cursed to spill each others blood what else can be said here.
Good point
Maybe Soviet assistance in fitting, wiring and using Exocets and possibly other neutral. No Comment. Either Way. And as usual both sides achieving high ESM interception. Note at least 3 extra Soviet satellites sweeping Exclusion zone and at least one extra US Satellite.
It was said from soldiers ashore them ships were sitting ducks
I doubt it as HMS Sheffield was hit before the landings and was hundreds of miles from any soldier.
were
Sunk by incompetence-Some members of the crew were “bored and a little frustrated by inactivity” and the ship was “not fully prepared” for an attack.
The anti-air warfare officer had left the ship’s operations room and was having a coffee in the wardroom when the Argentinian navy launched the attack, while his assistant had left “to visit the heads” (relieve himself).
The radar on board the ship that could have detected incoming Super Étendard fighter aircraft had been blanked out by a transmission being made to another vessel.
When a nearby ship, HMS Glasgow, did spot the approaching aircraft, the principal warfare officer in the Sheffield’s ops room failed to react, “partly through inexperience, but more importantly from inadequacy”.
The anti-air warfare officer was recalled to the ops room, but did not believe the Sheffield was within range of Argentina’s Super Étendard aircraft that carried the missiles.
When the incoming missiles came into view, officers on the bridge were “mesmerised” by the sight and did not broadcast a warning to the ship’s company.
Did you only read that Guardian article?
@@yanzavhorodniy1231 Did just now...OMG!
@@FineArtsTeacher Just so you know, that article is not an accurate representation of what went on.
no picnic
Argie pilots flew 1950s era jets & yet sunk & damaged many RN ships.
Jorge Abud Your point? A harrier jump jet out performs an F-35 JSF, harrier was built in the 60s the F-35 is being build now, more than 50years later.
Jorge Abud - Argentina had modern antiship missiles on their old aircraft, purchased from France. The Royal Navy did not have effective defenses against the Exocet.
Err... 1950's?? The Israeli-built "Dagger" was a supersonic variant of the Dassault Mirage 5, which 1st flew in 1972; this conflict was a decade later. The common theme, throughout most of the anti-British comments seem to make excuses for the wholesale defeat of the armed forces of Argentina: an Air Force (courageous) - almost destroyed, a Navy - stayed alongside, following 1st contact and an army (inc. marines and Special Forces) - defeated in every engagement.
@@danielw5850
The dagger was so good it first flew in 1972 and was retired 5 years later in 1977. And the Argies even got those downgraded from the original ones.
Porqué no miran el documental de la BBC. ????? Es así. Argentina no tenía capasidad bélica ni soldados profesionales. No había posibilidad de ganar esta guerra. Pero vinieron de Pic nic. Y no fue un picnic.
Una guerra colonial. El pensamiento ingles es tan monárquico y colonial, que aún no entienden lo que pasó y lo que significa Malvinas.
Su arrogancia traiciona su estupidez. Su Argentina que se comporta como un matón colonial en este episodio de la historia. El pueblo de las Islas Malvinas rechazan de plano Argentina por lo que estás a la demanda de que su casa durante cientos de años es de alguna manera el suyo ? Your arrogance betrays your stupidity. Its Argentina who behaves like a Colonial bully in this episode of history. The Falkland Island people reject Argentina outright so who are you to demand that their home for hundreds of years is somehow yours?
Solo dentro del pensamiento colonial se puede admitir que las Malvinas que están a 12, 656 kilometros del Reino Unido, sean británicas.
Únicamente un pais de mer da,con un rey de merda,puede invadir un territorio ocupado,despues de firmar un tratado de amistad y comercio.En 1825,los brits firmaron ese tratado,y MAlvinas hace años estaba con gobernantes Argentinos..
Argentina is a pirate, colonial country, the Spanish stole it from the autochone natives & then a privileged elite mafia class took it over from Spain, at least the Falklands were uninhabited when the British & French first laid claim to it.
you have to read.
A este hombre se le nota el miedo en la cara..
ale89220 jackie901 People in Britain we had serious problems too and so in Southamerica. Margareth T overconfidence brough this to the nation,later she'll told to "shut up" by members of the parlament for defending General Pinochet,no so clever the iron lady. So if i may say that was a bad move, both sides lose lifes more than a bloody ship,war plane or werever. There was a documentry about 2 man who survive the ordeal and both of then don't feel proud,they don't even praise their own army.
Sorry to hear that Argentinians delivered failed bombs, I guess the Exocets arrived in better conditions!
Sam Salt was the cause, no one but him! He shut down all of the sensors so he could talk on Skynet, in a bloody war zone. What a twat
lordmick roach I’ve not read the report, but I wander what could have been done regardless. Chaff?
you quoted "illegally invaded the territory that belonged to another sovereign power", but according to UN was UK this "sovereign power" ?
UN said that both parties should sit down and talk to solve the problem, Argentine agreed, UK refused, so who is not following UN rule?
Daniel by definition a sovereign power is a country with a king or queen who is the sovereign, there for the UK is a sovereign power.
Daniel - Talking was contingent on Argentine withdrawal. It was clear that there would never be a political solution acceptable to all, so Argentina attempted to settle the matter by force. Argentina lost. That’s the end of it. There is nothing to negotiate now.
"Worthy is dying for your country and honor", ... "Worthy is the hatred with which sank the pirate ship those bastards"
memoirs of an Argentine pilot.
Incalaperra = pirates
y el Sheffield donde está? ??? jajajaja
@Eddieposted All the royal navy ships, damage or fish food.
Oh, come on. Say thanks to US again
You guys had many men of honor within your navy. James "Sam" Salt was the exception.
Hey salt was a good man, he lost many friends on that ship the last thing you should do is insult him
Why is he the exception? He was a good man, a very good man.
IDIOT!
Maybe he should have put the phone down and defended his ship.
Pity about about the dead,but this os perfid Albión.
Indigenous population can vote in Argentina and move freely.
Can Argentines moves freely to Malvinas or vote there.. I don't think so, see the difference?
Tulaenelorto - Of course they can’t vote there. They likewise cannot vote in Chile or Uruguay. Argentines can vote in Argentina.
@@GH-oi2jf Because the Malvinas are filled with okupas. Do you know what an "okupa" is?
Shows how crap and non prepared we actually are. Still have have the same excuses now.
Excelente!!!!! Malvinas, no fucklands.
Always has been and always will be THE FALKLANDS. You are welcome to come and have another try if you want hombre, we will happily give you another Kick up the Arse.
@@stephensmith4480 jajajajajaaj
@@stephensmith4480 repito...jajajajajajaj... Tuvieron que cambiarse los pantalones y corrieron, llorando, a los brazos de papá USA....COBARDES...LADRONES CAGONES.
@@juan.7588 💩💩💩💩💩💩
@@juan.7588 💩💩💩💩💩💩
Vamos Argentiba carajoooo!!!!
believe me, I do not worry about you. Uh, checking my profile? I hurt? Sorry. The Argentines put a fight (particularly the Air Force). Do you know what was VERY humiliating? To back off from Suez (like the UK did) because the USA ordered (I repeat: ORDERED) to do it. "Yes, Sir, Yes, USA, I will leave".
No. I was not. Were you part of the UK Govt.(a "democracy", unlike Argentina in 1982 who was under a dictatorship) that in 2003 invaded Iraq? After that, there is no room for "moral arguments" that way.
the flaw is switching off the radar to chat with hq. in war this is seen as a sin for this unacceptable to stop radar to defend attack which saw it happened. it is against the rule in war defend against surprise attack which happen. hope lesson has been rectified nothing of such farce willl seen personal killed.
Argentina!
Can Brits vote in Argentina? No. Can Argentines vote in British territory (the Falklands)? No.
Perdon.. el territorio era argentino ..hasta que 1833..nos invadio el Reino Unido ..cuando devuelvan las isla Malvinas..ahi SI votaremos en nuestro territorio..!!!Malvinas siempre Argentinas..!!!
Justin pity yo u seré not aboard
Does not change the fact that the Empire continues to decline everyday.
God save your queen.
Brigidontodonte The empire didn't decline it evolved into something better, a commonwealth.
Brigidontodonte - The Falklands have not been declning. They are prospering and are much better defended today than they were in 1982.
Does this "decline" take into account that Falkland Islanders have the highest per capita income in the entire Southern Hemisphere?
if you built a ship without anti fight missile with alluminium and glass fibre ecc ecc economize in a war ship? result 28 sailors died. .type 21 22 23. .built economize. .Royal navy pay a high prize. .God save the Queen
And there were Welsh Argentines and English Argentines fighting the Evil Empire.
empires should respect international law. unfortunately that will never happen.
and your empire went with the Jolly Roger raised in 1833
expelled from our own land.. the uttermost sign of colonialism. shame on your empire and its mercenaries.
when Argentine recovered Falklands, kelpers were offered to hold a double citizenship, that way they would be able to vote
Nice sinking but didn't stop your arse being kicked out of the Falklands in record time, did it.
anti fighter
the English pirates bit the dust in Malvinas
We were the good guys.Argentina the bad guys.Good won.
The Malvinas are in our continental seaground, and Argentina was established in 1816, when we declared independence from Spain, and our constitution is from 1852, not 1860 and it was not the foundation of our nation it was just the final federal version of our previous constitution. So if you are going to support you imperialist and pirate governmente policy, you should give a look to some history books. Of course that in your country only rich people can have a decent education.
Falso, Argentina recien se estableció en 1820 concediendo una licencia de explotación a un ciudadano alemán que llevó con ello pobladores ingleses, franceses, escoceses y de otras nacionalidades.
The real facts:
01 May: HMS Sheffield was hit by Argentine Air Force MV Dagger bombs. Days later it sank.
02 May: Due to this attack, british decided to sink General Belgrano cruise.
04 May: An exocet from Argentine Armada Super Etendard was launch and hit HMS Hermes
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You are just fucking stupid.
You still believe all that Argentinian propaganda?
@@paulwood5803 Tell me the name of the type 42 destroyer that bombarded Argentine airfield on 1st. of May... (if you can do so)
I am still waiting Paul...
@@alexm7743 Well I can't obviously as that didn't happen. Another piece of fantasy from the Argentinian authorities. There was an attack on an Argentinian airfield on the mainland but that was carried out by special forces not an RN ship. Do you really think we would be stupid enough to send a lone Type 42 to within 12 miles of an Argentinian mainland airfield, bombard it and then hope there was no response from the Argentininian Navy or Airforce. Really you are completely deluded.
Missile technology makes surface war ships more or less obsolete.
paul Smith ECM?
VIVA el EXOCET!!! VIVA el SUPER ETENDARD!!!
good french engineering
But not good enough. Won the battle and lost the war. The story of the French armed forces.
Nunca tuvieron mejor publicidad que en la guerra de Las Malvinas.
Nelson Mandela is a great man, one of the biggest personalities of our times. But seeing your post, I understand now how something so terrible and tragic like the Stephen Lawrence's case could have taken place. OK. I let you then with your racial hate.
Actually, no so fast as when the British were ORDERED by US to leave Suez.
Royal Navy are pirates, says Argentina's president Kristina Kirshner
The president of Argentina has described the Royal Navy as pirates and accused the British government of behaving like an imperial power with regard to the Falkland Islands.
"Serious, very serious," Mrs Kirchner wrote. "Royal Navy, occupying colonial force in Falkland Islands, reports military exercise with missiles on the coast of East Falkland.
"Typical nineteenth century colonialism. Anachronistic use of force in violation of international law. They do not care. A clear example of double standards."
+rcx8666c Who care's what she think's, wining and moaning Arges. Argentina invaded what did you say about International law? Did you forget about that at the time.
Grow up, like a little child.
+rcx8666c You have no legal claim to the Islands. The Islanders don't want you. You were a Colonial possession and not an independent country when Britain founded a colony in the South Atlantic. But please, do feel free to try again. We're ready and willing
ACCORDING TO THE BRITISH LINE OF REASONING, IF THERE ARE ONLY 1 OR 2 BRITISH IN THE FUCKLAND COLONY, THEN BRITAIN WILL GIVE THEM THE PROTECTION OF THE BRITISH NAVY AND ARMY.
rcx8666c Yes and there are currently nearly 3,000 living there. None of whom want anything to do with Argentina.
It's cheap for a nation to claim that an island which existed and was inhabited by the uk before Argentina even existed specially after Argentina tried to take the Falklands like nazis which I seem to remember that's where they all fled. Ask Israel