@historigraph2 years agoStart building your ideal daily routine The first 100 people who click on the link will get 25% OFF Fabulous Premium 46
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@TheOperationsRoom2 years agoThe way you present complex information in the form of infographics is second to none 927
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@troo_66562 years agoI can' t even begin to imagine the frustration and dread at hms glasgow when their sister ship isn' t doing anything to prevent iminent danger. 1896
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@casematecardinal2 years agoDamn, those pilots had balls. They rushed headlong into what could have been almost certain death with no support or escort and waited till the last possible. ...Expand382
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@KibuFoxlast yearAs sheffield burned, the men in the lifeboats began to band together. While british ships were close by, many of the young sailors were starting to panic.. ...Expand317
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@Werrf12 years agoProps to the argentine pilots, this was pretty much a perfect textbook attack. 73
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@aaronjohn65862 years agoRegardless of what happened to the sheffield and why. The 2 argentina pilots are to be credited with the daring boldness of their attack. They used their. ...Expand465
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@poxiplu10952 years agoExcellent video, very well done and entertaining. With just 5 exocets, the argentinian naval air force proved the enormous skills and bravery of their. ...Expand36
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@rainbowseeker59309 months agoNo doubt the argentinian air force was something to contend with, not only because of its size but mostly because of its daring and highly skilled pilots.. ...Expand80
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@josepablolunasanchez12832 years agoAmazinly upon returning to argentina, argentine soldiers and pilots felt more respected by the brits than by teir own people. For people it was the same. ...Expand73
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@danielnavarro5372 years agoThe fact the argentinians went below to about 50 feet above sea just to use the earths curvature fascinates me. I never knew the earths curvature cou id="hidden9"ld be use in such a manner. I wonder if other aerial operations of other wars used this tactic too. I find it interesting and amazing that the earths curvature could be use to hide oneself from the enemy. Very fascinating. Overall very well made video. Godspeed to those who perished during the falkland war. . ...Expand62
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@Seyhawk2 years agoAs a former destroyer sailor, this is an absolute nightmare. Great job as always on this video. 91
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@napoleonibonaparte71982 years agoFlat earthers will naturally make terrible pilots and navigators. 56
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@MrMinimanmatt2 years agoYou have to give the argentines credit for how well this operation was carried out. 25
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@rickm92442 years agoBalls of steel from the pilots and sailors and the mercy of command failures. The task force failed at basic defense and the pilots took full advantage. ...Expand409
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@phildurling71852 years agoThe uk military learnt a lot from this conflict. Having being largely army focused due to the ni troubles no one thought that aluminium on warships or. ...Expand231
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@polkban2 years agoAccurate description, well done. Greetings from buenos aires. 10
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@iainmalcolm95832 years agoOf course, most people in the uk (that are old enough) remember the falklands war. However the detail you provide is fantastic. Learned things i didn' t currently the iwm channel (imperial war museum) are running a video series about the falklands war. Worth checking out for anyone interested in learning about it. ...Expand195
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@TheEDFLegacy2 years agoJust comes to show how important a good captain is. The other destroyer was on the ball, and would have survived that had it been targeted. The ship' s . ...Expand42
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@herseem2 years ago" i suspect someone' s been bloody careless" from your account, that was a very prescient and perceptive comment given how little he knew of the details of the situation at the time. 28
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@DaDe2242 years agoThanks for another great video! You shine a light on the complexity of naval operations that i feel are usually very much it also brings to life the gruelling reality of fighting aboard tin cans floating on 100' s of metres of water in the face of missiles and torpedo' s that require only a single hit. ...Expand38
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@mattyb71832 years agoI remember reading one book a while ago that talked about one issue the royal navy had during the war was its anti-air capability. From what i remember, the rn had been given a particular taskif i remember correctly) as part of a larger nato mission, with the expectation that other nato navies would be there performing other tasks like dedicated air defence and so on. So the rn had spent decades planning to fight as part of big multinational force and then came the falkland war. suddenly the rn was fighting a war it had never expected and they found they had some serious capability issues, with air defence being a big one. As what they had avaliable was good if there is someone else nearby with better kit and you expected to be part of a wider network. Not so good if it is the only thing avaliable. and of course, the argentine pilots had the skills to find and exploit those short comings. ...Expand70
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@vinloy2310 months agoBrilliant. The supercombo is deadly for navies. 4
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@maxkennedy80752 years agoYou cant build a cheap ship if you reduce the monetary cost youll pay in sailors blood. 110
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@hemeoncn2 years agoGreat video. Well done. I remember this well being in the royal canadian navy at the time as an ops room rating so everything that happened was important to me, especially mistakes when fighting the ship. 31
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@AudieHolland2 years agoHow could thecrew not imagine that the planes' position in relation to their ship was slightly different than that from their sister ship? 281
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@helloxyz6 months agoOne of my leading seamen came from the sheffield. He confirmed that the ship was slack, in many ways. The captain was a nice guy, not a ship driver or exocet only carried a small warhead, plus any remaining fuel. The short range at which they were launched meant that there was still plenty of fuel, adding to the fire, but the warhead was only sufficient to punch a hole in the side. A similar missile hit the a**e end of the glamorgan at the end of the war and good damage control prevented any more serious loss. It took 2 exocets to wreck the atlantic conveyor, but two were not enough to sink the uss stark. A 500kg bomb would cause much more damage than an exocet, but argentine bombs rarely exploded due to the low height from which they were dropped. i' ve just been reading about the japanese naval air experience - and what is most impressive is the huge number of weapons that are needed to sink a warship - armoured during wwii. One or two hits shouldn' t affect a big ship like a carrier with good damage control. But british ships of falklands vintage were designed to stand up to 1 500kg bomb, but not 2. So, coventry, capsized after two bombs, but ardent survived for a day after 3 bombs (with many more unexploded) antelope was hit by 2 bombs, but only one exploded near the magazines which also detonated, sinking the ship. in conclusion, considering the argies had only 5 missiles, they squandered them on unimportant targets, a rookie error, and failed to follow up their hit with anything else. Poor strategy, poor planning, poor tactics, generally poor business, and hitting the sheffield, a ship that wasn' t going to make any major contribution to the war, was poetic justice. ...Expand2
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@dfolt2 years agoWas a midshipman in the west german navy at the time, and of course we were following closely what was going on down south in 1982. i dare say bz!. ...Expand28
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@robertnichols22832 years agoIt just hit me- that was forty freaking years ago! thats about halfway as far back in time from now as ww2! good god time flies! 15
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@loungelizard39222 years agoThe animation of the fire spreading on the ship reminded me of ftl. Excellent video, you' re amazing at what you do. 10
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@PM-tm7bp2 years agoI' m still amazed at the quality and detail in your videos. This is great work. Thank you. 2
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@azzajames766111 months agoR. I. P to those 20 sailors that died on board hmas sheffield. 7
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@mbryson28992 years agoWell done! I have read and seen many recountings, yours is the clearest. 2
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@networkbike5432 years agoHad no idea so many mistakes were made by sheffield. Senior officers still with peacetime thinking. Best graphics i have seen that clearly shows the sequence of events. 4
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@jonnyharris2612last yearI' m new to historigraph but glad to have discovered the channel. I' ve just watched a series these vids on the falklands war and believe they are . ...Expand
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@shomikmukhopadhyay6405last yearThis is a really interesting and well compiled series on falklands war. Well done. 1
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@lonjohnson51612 years agoI remember this well as i was a bit of a news junkie at the time. It even had made it into one of my science magazines. one thing to remember is. ...Expand136
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@nestordelponte45112 years ago" no hay quien pueda con los pilotossandy woodward. 27
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@jamesscalzo3033last yearLoved the video @historigraph! Can' t wait for the next video man! Sheffield wasn' t the only ship lost on the british side of the falklands war,. ...Expand1
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@markwilliams72052 years agoI agree you have a gift for presenting complex information in a concise and clear way - first class. 1
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@digyourowngrave972 years agoWoo! Favorite channel post right before bed! 2
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@Jesse_Dawglast yearAmazing series. Love every episode so far as i get through this playlist. Please more videos.
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@ericcheng31432 years agoThe argentinians were hasty in the invasion. They needed the ethendards and the exocets. Having them would have caused the lost of more ships. 22
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@ModlyModly2 years agoErnesto proni leston and sergio sepeti were pilots of neptune 2-p-112 that found hms sheffield. 9
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@afwaller2 years agoThis is excellent quality documentary. Well done. 1
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@avengermkii78722 years agoWhat a preventable attack. They had ample warning and they managed to screw it up. There are times, i think, some commanders don' t deserve their post. 270
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@octowuss18882 years agoThe type 42 performed very poorly in the war. Their sea dart missiles were not effective at low level and were slow to reload. They had no ciws. Of the. ...Expand205
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@geordiedog17492 years agoI remember this clearly. The wake up value of it was quite astounding. what happened to the second of the exocets? 107
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@cristianherrera1690last yearGreat video and you tell the story in a imparcial mode, happy day for the veterans argentines fall in the islands! 1
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@grahamkearnon66822 years agoThanks, i was an 18 y o greenie on hermes down south, in the video you see burn victims landing in helos. Our job was to fill the helos with firefighting. ...Expand2
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@billhanna21482 years agoThank you again for your excellent work. 1
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@micahistory2 years agoI like this channel' s emphasis on naval history. 3
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@Tconcept6 months agoVery interesting thank you. I visited sheffield during navy days in portsmouth 1981, it was a shock to see her destroyed on the news in ' 82.
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@terik33122 years agoDon' t suppose you' ll be covering the sinking of the alantic conveyer in this series? 46
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@TheDrAkira7 months agoNice narration of events. Thanks for being respectful with both bands. Is still today a very sensitive topic for us argebtinians and for uk of course. Both bands had sustained lots of casualties thanks to bad politicians. ...Expand2
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@fasfas89992 years agoGreat video! Secrecy, surprise and bravery was the determinant attack.
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@petenztube85922 years agoNew falklands documentary, yay! Thanks!
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@jasperphua93192 years agoDespite all these, bravery to the pilot that did the operation. 8
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@JamesThomas-gg6il2 years agoAnd flew him directly to the admirals ship. Ouch. That' is when you know you' ve messed up bad. 11
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@tinoduboisen9703last yearThe pilots had an extra problem when flying so close to the sea and it was the salt that stuck to the windshield and made it difficult to see, so they. ...Expand6
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@bigdmac332 years agoVery good presentation - full of detail and presented factually.
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@Cloud70502 years agoExcellent video! High quality. One thing i noticed was that the video captions are an older version of the script and don' t match the narration. 1
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@armypenguin2 years agoYour content is 10/10 like late 90s early 20s history channel. Thank you. 1
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@mellon42512 years agoWhile still tragic this sinking really puts in my mind how small this conflict was in comparison to other naval conflicts like wwi and wwii where sometimes. ...Expand63
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@teacherwayne66802 years agoOne of my friends was onboard hms sheffield when it was struck and survived to tell the tale. It was a terrifying experience for him. He still suffers this day with the experience (mentally) 4
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@biko3319662 years agoMy two cents: i) you forgot to say that the fleet was tracked by a argentine navy' s neptune, and the attack was properly prepared (ii) the way of. ...Expand56
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@jimmillward3505last yearGod bless the boys on the sheffield. I am a former sailor (chef) i served on the broadsword in peace time a small number of years after the end of the. ...Expand1
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@Mag_Aoidh6 months agoI remember when that happened. I was glued to my little tv keeping up with the news.
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@farmingpotato33722 years agoLove your videos! Can you make one on the battle of midway? 2
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@richardmeo25038 months agoGood show and info. Snafu again showed up. Many times in ww ii vital functions had to be maintained, and the men perished to save their ship. Brave lads, hopefully britain acknowledged their sacrifice.
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@therealuncleowen25883 months agoWar is so terrible and fascinating. Humanity doing it' s worst to each other, and yet the pressure of risking one' s life often brings out the best of humanity.
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@dufus7396last yearThe range and punch of that little jet was astounding. 2
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@tomhutchins74952 years agoI love theofbeen bloodyit translates from british naval officer approximately as " you, captain, a whole bunch of people you are responsible for, are shockingly incompetent, and it' s going to be court martials all round. ". ...Expand2
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@hiddenhistory64592 years agoThank you, this video is promoting my falklands videos.
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@manueldamianbelen99622 years agoLos pilotos navales, armando mayora - augusto bedacartatz. 4-5-1982 el sheffield se convirti en el primer buque de guerra britnico desde segunda guerra mundial y el primero de la otan. 20 muertos y 63 heridos condolencias a familiares del hms sheffield - su capitn sam salt. despues del fin de la segunda guerra mundial, argentina, excelentes pilotos alemane en nuestro pais capacitaron a los pilotos arg. Adof galland - hans ulrich rudel- behrens otto - kurt waldemar tank- werner baumbach- heinz scheidhauer. ...Expand6
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@martyb37832 years agoGreat video. I was in the us coast guard at the time and felt really bad for the crew of the sheffield.
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@brianwaite61392 years agoI remember cheering in french pubs when it was shown on tv - our fellow europeans at the time! 7
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@profesorcoccon75902 years agoGood video grettings from argentina. 1
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@Hollows19972 years agoWoodward was right. Someone had been bloody careless. 22
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@josedro2 years agoCongratulation on this detailed documentary. Today first time after 40 years i see how the british set their fleet up. Tv or yt videos never showed something like this so easy to understand. Thank you very much. now i always thought hermes and invincible were far away from each other like one in the north and in the south the other. Never imagine both sailings together. ...Expand
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@avrilbannatyne74093 months agoThat' s great analysis. I had no idea sheffield put up no defence whatsoever.
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@trevorday79234 months agoA well executed attack, by two skilled pilots. I still remember when this happened, i think this was when the general public realised we really were at. ...Expand
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@waffles43222 years agoI actually have a mug from the hms sheffield, my gpa was us navy, traded one from his ship for it when he met them in port before the war. So somewhere on that wreck may very well be a mug from the uss piedmont. 2
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@beachboy05052 years agoExcellent video excellent graphics. yikes, a damming video. 1
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@rafaeldouglas20659 months agoThis ships' loss falls squarely with captain salt. Taking oncommunications was bound to compromise the ship' s early warning radar. it is surprising that the captain and others were not summoned for courts marshall for the ship' s demise. ...Expand1
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@juliantolley21915 months agoI worked on a prototype automatic system that controlled ventilation on the sheffield. It went wrong and we were asked to provide a new set of boards that. ...Expand
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@corradopetri29172 years agoA great friend of mine was in charge of assembling and testing the exocet target tracking heads. he was also telling that heads were sometimes after this event, he mentally suffered a lot and he completely changed its job. ...Expand1
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@ONI_0022 years agoI still feel like you should add music to your intro. Otherwise excellent video as always! 4
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@sebastianschonfeld34462 years agoArgentina cambio la estrategia de la guerra aeronaval en 1982. Sorprendi una y otra vez la flota britnica. 16
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@Track2u2 years agoSpoke to a matlot who served during the falklands. his take was way too much aluminium in rn vessels which transferred the intence heat very quickly once a fire started it was almost impossible to put it out with the kit they had on-board as it spread. ...Expand1
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@zeus-mt7wx2 years agoRead the book 100 day war. very interesting that 1 of these ships was testing new weapons. Was called into battle with the reps from missile maker then half the weapons froze up. this war was a big learning curve. ...Expand1
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it also brings to life the gruelling reality of fighting aboard tin cans floating on 100' s of metres of water in the face of missiles and torpedo' s that require only a single hit. ...Expand 38
suddenly the rn was fighting a war it had never expected and they found they had some serious capability issues, with air defence being a big one. As what they had avaliable was good if there is someone else nearby with better kit and you expected to be part of a wider network. Not so good if it is the only thing avaliable.
and of course, the argentine pilots had the skills to find and exploit those short comings. ...Expand 70
i' ve just been reading about the japanese naval air experience - and what is most impressive is the huge number of weapons that are needed to sink a warship - armoured during wwii. One or two hits shouldn' t affect a big ship like a carrier with good damage control. But british ships of falklands vintage were designed to stand up to 1 500kg bomb, but not 2. So, coventry, capsized after two bombs, but ardent survived for a day after 3 bombs (with many more unexploded) antelope was hit by 2 bombs, but only one exploded near the magazines which also detonated, sinking the ship.
in conclusion, considering the argies had only 5 missiles, they squandered them on unimportant targets, a rookie error, and failed to follow up their hit with anything else. Poor strategy, poor planning, poor tactics, generally poor business, and hitting the sheffield, a ship that wasn' t going to make any major contribution to the war, was poetic justice. ...Expand 2
i dare say bz!. ...Expand 28
thats about halfway as far back in time from now as ww2!
good god time flies! 15
one thing to remember is . ...Expand 136
what happened to the second of the exocets? 107
4-5-1982 el sheffield se convirti en el primer buque de guerra britnico desde segunda guerra mundial y el primero de la otan.
20 muertos y 63 heridos condolencias a familiares del hms sheffield - su capitn sam salt.
despues del fin de la segunda guerra mundial, argentina, excelentes pilotos alemane en nuestro pais capacitaron a los pilotos arg. Adof galland - hans ulrich rudel- behrens otto - kurt waldemar tank- werner baumbach-
heinz scheidhauer. ...Expand 6
grettings from argentina. 1
now i always thought hermes and invincible were far away from each other like one in the north and in the south the other. Never imagine both sailings together. ...Expand
excellent graphics.
yikes, a damming video. 1
he was also telling that heads were sometimes after this event, he mentally suffered a lot and he completely changed its job. ...Expand 1
his take was way too much aluminium in rn vessels which transferred the intence heat very quickly once a fire started it was almost impossible to put it out with the kit they had on-board as it spread. ...Expand 1
very interesting that 1 of these ships was testing new weapons. Was called into battle with the reps from missile maker then half the weapons froze up.
this war was a big learning curve. ...Expand 1