🔱 Falklands War. How the Argentine Submarine, Sante Fe was Raised
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2022
- HMS Antrim’s Westland Wessex helicopter (Humphrey) launched an attack with two Mk 11 depth charges against ARA SANTA FEA. Assuming Santa Fe could not dive, a Westland Lynx helicopter from HMS Brilliant and a Westland Wasp from frigate HMS Plymouth also joined the attack, as did the Wasp aircraft from ice patrol ship HMS Endurance around an hour later.
The Lynx fired a Mk 46 NATO standard lightweight torpedo which failed to hit the submarine; the Wasps fired AS-12 anti-ship missiles, and all aircraft used machine guns to strafe the submarine, which returned fire with machine guns.
Santa Fe, which displaced almost 2,500 tons when submerged, limped back to the pier at King Edward Point in Grytviken, where her crew rapidly headed ashore, still exchanging fire with the British helicopters.
By this time the British warships were steaming in to join the fray, and they were joined by their respective aircraft, having carried out what is thought to be the first successful anti-submarine exercise carried out entirely by helicopters.
Here, Alec explains his part in her raising.
In one of the first major incidents of the Falklands War; SANTA FE was not only the first ship lost to Argentina during that war but also the first submarine sunk by aircraft since the end of the Second World War. SANTA FE had been engaged in the resupply and transfer of twenty marines to Grytviken on South Georgia when she came under attack by the British on the 23 April 1982; a depth charge was dropped close to the port side causing enough damage to prevent the submarine from diving again. She attempted to run to the relative safety of Cumberland Bay but was pursued by Wessex and Lynx helicopters. Clark, who piloted one of HMS BRILLIANT's Lynx helicopters, attacked Santa Fe with a homing torpedo, which missed its mark. He then strafed the submarine with GPMG fire until it became nonoperational and the crew surrendered.
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