Handbrake!: Dassault Super Étendard fighter-bombers in the Falklands/Malvinas war, 1982

Handbrake!: the codeword that was shouted aboard Royal Navy ships upon the detection of an emission from the Thomson-CSF/EMD Agave radar of the Argentine Super Étendard, which carried the dreaded AM-39 Exocet missiles. Argentina had bought these aircraft and their weapons from France in 1980, assign...

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Hauptverfasser: Sciaroni, Mariano (VerfasserIn), Amendolara, Alejandro (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Warwick, England Helion & Company Limited 2022
Schriftenreihe:Latin America@War series 28
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Zusammenfassung:Handbrake!: the codeword that was shouted aboard Royal Navy ships upon the detection of an emission from the Thomson-CSF/EMD Agave radar of the Argentine Super Étendard, which carried the dreaded AM-39 Exocet missiles. Argentina had bought these aircraft and their weapons from France in 1980, assigning them to the re- established 2nd Naval Air Fighter and Attack Squadron. Like most Argentine military units, the 1982 conflict over the Falklands/Malvinas conflict surprised the squadron, which was in the process of incorporating the aircraft and missiles, arriving only a few weeks beforehand from France. Hastily, under the leadership of its commander, Capitán de Fragata Jorge Luis Colombo, the squadron finished its training and developed tactics for anti-ship attacks, deploying to the south of Argentina.The effort paid off. With just four aircraft, five missiles, and ten pilots, the squadron succeeded in sinking HMS Sheffield and the container ship Atlantic Conveyor and conducted a long range and dangerous mission against the Carrier Battle Group on 30 May 1982
Beschreibung:98 SeitenIV Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Karten, Porträts 30 cm
ISBN:9781915070722

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