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In my opinion British version is right. Argentine pilots missidentified the target as she was almost completely covered in smoke and offered a little flank to the attackers. Exocet would have fallen to sea after passing the target some miles away. The first A-4C was downed by a Sea Dart fired from H...

I don´t know the reasons. The book is excellent to follow Argentine Naval Aviation Command´s operations during the war. Perhaps Argentine Air Force thougt that its current arsenal was good enough to perform antishipping missions. Perhaps they had to addapt under wing pylons to carry the bombs and th...

Thanks for the wellcome. According to the Rear-admiral Martini´s book, in its Chapter 8, stocks of Mk-82 bombs were provided to the Argentine Air Force in Río Gallegos and San Julián Air Bases, as well as an instructor (SS Sánchez) to help with them. This was ordered by COATLANSUR. It seems that Arg...

Hi everybody: I knew about you thanks to Enrique and hope to be useful in the matters youare talking about. I have some links about different air attacks on ships after WW2: Vietnam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Patrol_Craft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Hobart_%28D_39%29 Libya: http://en.w...