From: Jon Shoop (shoop19@brick.net)
Date: Sat May 27 2006 - 06:12:42 PDT
----- Original Message -----
>I was a guest of the Peruvian Navy some years ago and they were most proud
From: "Jon Shoop" <shoop19@brick.net>
To: "Jim Webster" <james.webster@iomartdsl.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Flying military vehicles
>of the fact that the Exocets used were theirs, loaned to the Argentines.
>
> At the time I was there, the Peruvian Exocets they had were all down, all
> needing mandatory fuel pack and other upgrades that they had no money to
> pay for.
>
> Jon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Webster" <james.webster@iomartdsl.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 4:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Flying military vehicles
>
>
>> Steve & Jeanne Keith wrote:
>>> 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. Anyway the Skyhawk losses were very
>> high - they lost 22 of 46 aircraft. 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.
>>
>> --
>> TTFN
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> 'Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vicendarum!'
>>
>>
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