From: Steve & Jeanne Keith (cckw@comcast.net)
Date: Sat May 27 2006 - 04:12:20 PDT
Leaving for a Memorial Day parade with the CCKW towing the 57mm
AT gun shortly.
Thank you veterans of all wars and peacetime service!
----- Original Message -----
> Steve & Jeanne Keith wrote:
Our AC had the range and numbers to keep the hostiles away. The
> Anyway the Skyhawk losses were very high - they lost 22 of 46 aircraft.
Geneal Belgrano was the only one of account I remember.
>
But there was no stopping the Exocet except by decoy/suicide helo like
BTW: If you look at pix of the HMS Shefield that was hit by an Exocet the
Steve AKA Dr Deuce
>
From: "Jim Webster" <james.webster@iomartdsl.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 5:54 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Flying military vehicles
>> The US made Skyhawks kicked the sheet out of the Brits. The
>> Brit commander stated that if 1/2 of the bombs that had hit his
>> ships had gone off, he would have had to withdraw his forces!
>
> I severely doubt the US Navy would have done any better with the resources
> that we had available.
range and loitering time on station for a Harrier are quite small
compared to an F14 or F18
> Incredibly brave pilots flying through the hail of fire between the ships.
> I remember watching them from the 'Great White Whale' trying to skip the
> bombs into the sides of the ships and all I could think was 'omigod'
> endlessly. Once a Seawolf locked onto them they had virtually had it
> though...
>
> You also have to remember that we sank/damaged a lot of Argentinian ships
> as well..
>> The Argentine pilots were atacking soo low that many of the bombs
>> failed to arm.
>
> You ain't kidding - seven ships hit by UXB's.
>
>> The Mirage's could launch the Exocet missiles at the max range
>> of the Harriers so that Harriers could not protect the ship adequately
>> because they could not stay on station to intercept the Mirages
>> before they launched the Exocets.
>
> They did launch them at maximum range - that is why they only got two
> hits. The third Exocet hit was from a land based launch.
Prince
Andrew flew in that war.
next day, it was burned badly, but in no danger of sinking. It was reported
that
they were carrying nuke depthcharges and that the Exocet and resulting
damge got into them and mad a nuclear mess in the ship and that is why that
ship sunk hundreds of miles away in one of the deepest parts of the
Atlantic.
Nothing they could do to clean it up
> --
> TTFN
> Jim
>
>
> 'Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vicendarum!'
>
>
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