1982 Falklands War: Exocet Missile Fired At HMS Invincible | DCS WORLD Reenactment 

I didn't know we had a Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard mod for DCS

Brave boys those Argentine pilots. I liked the authentic Argentinian folk music playing in the background.

Fun fact: Argentina had only 5 EXOCET missiles and actually use them very wisely by inflicting UK Navy huge casualties. One of the UK's Generals said: If Argentina had about 30 of them, they actually could win the war.

In fond memory of those brave sailors and airmen

I was part of 801 Sqdn on HMS Invincible throughout the Falklands War in 1982. I can tell you that Invincible was attacked twice by Exocet, the first time we deployed our Chaff the missile lost its lock on the ship, it then locked on to Atlantic Conveyor which was hit The second attack which was in your simulation the Exocet didn’t hit any ship, two of the Skyhawks were shot down a third hit the water and the fourth escaped From intelligence information the Argentinians only had five Exocets. The Argentinians had a RADAR near Port Stanley which was picking up the SHAR aircraft in ingressing and egressing from the two carriers. Attempts were made to take it out using the Shrike missile from a Vulcan Bomber as part of the Black Buck missions but they were not successful in taking the RADAR out.

On the war the A4s didn't climb for a dive bomb they stayd as low as possible and dropped them as late as they could like ir they were torpedoes with a timer so they wouldn't blow up themselves

Falklands missions are awesome

8:48 When the music kicks in, you know that things just might get a bit dicey... Happy Birthday SuperCap... 🎇🎂🎇

These Malvinas/Falklands videos are very good dude, the pilots had to fly under 15mts to avoid getting picked up on radar. There are lots of accounts of them losing visibility due to salt building up on the front of the canopy. So besides bring forced to fly low, they were forced to fly blind. Keep it up!

These Falklands missions are the best.

LOVE this one! Very nice flying... then with the music starting and the Exocet-last-meters-slowmotion ... Bahhhh!!! NICE!

The Super Étendard is beautiful! Nice mission! Thanks, Cap.

I have never seen these types of videos before. They are very well done and interesting. I was 24 years of age when The Falklands war started and lived in London. My girlfriend and I watched the evenings news every night to follow the progress of the war. It was harrowing and distressing. When it was announced HMS Invincible was returning to Portsmouth we drove from London at 5am and parked on Southsea seafront with thousands of other brits, waving flags. HMS Invisible sailed into Portsmouth on a beautiful summers day. We drove into Portsmouth and walked past the Police lines jnto the docks. There in front of us was was HMS Invincible. We were surrounded by thousands of well wishers with the band playing. The atmosphere was incredible. I saw that people were walking up the gangplank towards the officers only entrance. The ladies were dressed in beautiful dresses to be greeted by their husbands on board. My girlfriend and I joined the queue! In no time we were on board HMS Invincible. We went up some steps and we were up on the flight deck, waving back to the thousands still down on the dock. We were then approached by a man in uniform. I shook his hand and told him how proud we were of him. He was a Harrier Pilot. He looked at my attractive girlfriend and offerred to show us his Sea Harrier. We were shown around the flight deck, the ships bell and the rapid huge lift inside Invincible. We drove home to London. That evening we watched the 10 o'clock news . HM The Queen was shown around the flight deck, the ships bell and the huge lift. My girlfriend was laughing that she had already done the tour. It was a very emotional and memorable day. 41 years later she is sitting next to me. We are watching the news of the conflict in Israel. These videos are truly excellent and bring back so many memories. We did not have this technology then. Life has moved on.... Pete and Carol ❤

Awesome videos. Greetings from Argentina!

as an argentinean seeing this is incredible, good work, keep it going!

that was very entertaining to watch, thank you, :-)

Man great cinematics and music.

SI CARAJO QUE VIVA LA PATRIA ARGENTINAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

It would be cool to see a conflict from the Iran Iraq war. Nice video.

FUERON 2 SUPER ETENDAR Y 4 A -4Q THANK YOU FOR SIMULATING OUR MALVINAS DEED FRIENDS GREETINGS FROM ARGENTINA

Happy birthday friend I wish I could send you a cake but it would go bad by the time you got it great video CAP thanks like always take care.

Very nice!

AN/APG-53a radar allowed A4 to be patrially all weather capable, but when USA allowed the sale of the A4C to Argentinean air force didn't want them to have that capability, so they never allowed spares to be sold. After a few years no Argentinean A4C had their radar working, so Argentine Air Force replaced it with a TACAN Navigation system, the same one already installed in A4B... So at the end, Argentine A4C were more equal to A4B than to A4E modded in DCS. Keep that in mind for next Malvinas/Falklands vids, in which A4 pilots shouldn't be allowed to work with radar ON

Have you done the Alraigo incident? Where a Harrier was low on fuel and landed on a Spanish cargo ship

I believe it was the SS Atlantic Conveyor that was sunk by Argentinian Exocets, not HMS Invincible.

please let lead be lead, and just be a good wingman by just being there.

Quick mission! Excellent. Happy birthday.

Perfect ! Next time, you can make Iraq Air Force used Super Entendard attack oil tanker in Persian Gulf story, in Iran-Iraq war.

First of all, happy bday cap! Very interesting video, it would be dope if you reenact the so called "Darkest Day of the Fleet", when the british fleet was bombed by low flying argentinian A4s. There are some photos of A4s flying as low as they can over british boats, and they look amazing!

I know this has nothing to do with the video but what does unknown reformer paddle mean on my dcs controls for my hotas?

You should try making cinematics Cap, you are pretty good at it

Tu tienes que buscar a estos pilotos héroes y hablar cone hellos

Fantastic - except that the aircraft were often shot down either by surface engagement or the Harrier cap.

Does anyone know the song played in the background of the video?. I checked the description but couldn't find it

The conflict who save 🇬🇧

Yeah I remember hearing about this attack and that the Exocet missile hit the warship, went completely threw the british vessels but didn't explode. this was right at the end of the war. I may be getting confused with a separate incident I don't remember.

Happy birthday cap

¿Puede alguien, cualquiera, enumerar los canales de TV o de RU-vid en los cuales han dado entrevistas los tripulantes del HMS Invincible? ¿Por qué estuvieron callados durante 40 años ante las acusaciones de los pilotos argentinos? ¿Será que la ley británica de secretos militares les impide hablar de este tema en público? Desde ya, gracias

Loved the a4. Watched bombing runs at 29 palms. One canyon they would roll inverted 50 feet over my head. Swoop in roll back and drop. One day the pilot didn't get over the mountain. No chute! Was the only thing the forward observer said.

Nice vid mate. Could you reenact Owen Crippa's solo recon mission with an Aermacchi MB339?

Spooky Ace Combat Horizon

Definitely not flying over the Falkland Islands. Looks more like the Pacific NW.

Cap, Could you give an eta on the tbd video, no rush, just curious

@Cap, VVR: Will CIWS hit friendly ships if a missile flies in front of a friendly or will it cease firing.

why didnt u tell the guy he was taking off with full flaps ?

Lack of accuracy!

Ha just other day was showing the "attack modern carrier" vids to my dad whose a former British army royal engineers sapper and he used this attack as " yeah totally possible" and that it did hit.

Hi. Lol ìt was the MSV Atlantic conveyer that was hit.......lol. I remember the conflict well. Feelings are still running hot regarding this conflict.

Is the A4 flight model still ummmm questionable?

Loved it! Hey, could you share me your trackir 5 profile please?

8:20 Yeah, some sound track! /)

Geez Cap.... the Super Endendards launched at the biggest radar blip they could see - they thought it was Invincible - it wasn't. Lots of claims that she was hit/damaged/Sunk all of which are complete rubbish - there's no way she could have been repaired before returning home, plus you're talking about a ship with hundreds of people on it, you couldn't keep it secret for 30 years (and why would you want to?). From a DCS point of view - wish I had your skill at slotting into refuel (though you shouldn't have given any radio chat at all - the attacks were done with radio silence). (For the record - Exocets hit Sheffield, the Atlantic Conveyor - the major success and only non-escort ship hit and Glamorgan). People make alot of fuss about how long Invincible stayed out in the South Atlantic arguing that no ship stays out that long - well plenty have and she needed to as she needed to wait for Illustrious be finished and get down to relieve her. (Also you used the wrong version of Invicible - without the Sea Dart).

hey guys, so why only single exocet per SPE? Br

Pretty realistic for the Exocet. The SM-1 on the FFG had a 36% chance of shooting down an Exocet. As far as the A-4, I doubt it would have dodged the SAM or 76mm gun.

As much as I hate the Argentinian military Junta at the time, the Argentinian pilots were as brave and skillfull as any other elite fighter pilot in the world. The Argentinian pilots paid a terrible price for their victories though. They would have sunk even more ships if their 'iron bombs' had better fuses. Many hit their targets but failed to explode as the Argentinian pilots ran the gauntlet of British anti-air batteries and missiles.

Hi Cap. Great video of that mission, as alway . The A-4 did they attack at low level always, and drop their tank before the attacks. In my message put: FAA wich means (Fuerza Aerea Argentina (Argentina Air Force) and COAN: (Comando de Aviacion Naval ) The equivalent to the Fleet Air Arm.

It might be a fun mission, but please don't push the myth of the invincible attack, there's no point

And where is the sunk??

4:52 WTF

A dramatisation of the Argentine propaganda story, but despite nice graphics (and a little unrealistic A4 flying) the truth remains that there was no attack on HMS Invincible. The May 30th attack flew into HMS Avenger and Exeter. The AM39 Exocet was decoyed with chaff from Avenger's Corvus launchers, and fell into the sea at 17.36 exactly, off the port stern of Avenger. HMS Exeter fired three Sea Dart missiles. One hit Argentine pilot Daniel Vazquez. The other planes went dangerously low to avoid the sea Darts, and pilot Omar Jesus Castillo dropped his bombs just off the port bow of HMS Avenger, with one skipping back up off the sea and striking his aircraft, plunging it into the water. The final two pilots, Ernesto Ureta and Gerardo Isaac missed too... Ureta dropped too soon off the starboard bow, Isaac overshot Avenger down the port side and ditched his bombs in the sea. HMS Exeter let them go as they were now harmless, and Exeter had just seven missiles left in her magazines. The pilots returned and the junta cooked up the story that they had sunk HMS Invincible as it needed a propaganda story to cover the loss of Goose Green, which they hadn't yet announced to the Argentine public.

as like in every war....the losses of the british were made minimal...but all incorrect. In fact, the rigth hand for Mrs Tatcher said he was about to call the queen and her to report that the war was lost. Some diplomatic bla bla bla make the british the winners of the conflict at the desk but the argentinian won it in the battle field!!

what are your computer specs man?.. your videos always look like another simulation to me..

Awesome video man. thanks to make it! heres more information from the Argentinian pilots of the A-4s. sorry for the translate.... The operation was launched from the Rio Grande BAM on May 30 at 12:43 p.m. Two Super Étendard aircraft, of the naval aviation, manned by Lieutenant Commander Francisco and Lieutenant Colavino, with callsign "Ala" and four A4-C Skyhawk fighter-bombers of the Air Force (Zeus Squadron), manned by the first lieutenants Castillo, Vázquez and Ureta and by Ensign Isaac. Once refueled in flight on the high seas, some 350 kilometers southeast of our Falkland Islands, they began to descend to complete the last low-lying section of approach and attack on the Invincible aircraft carrier, which at that time was orbiting some 200 nautical miles to the east from Puerto Argentino. Once the Exocet was fired, it would have hit the base of the command tower, the four A4-Cs were launched converging almost in line. In the wake of the missile they saw a plume of smoke on the horizon. Near the target, a missile hit the plane of the squadron leader, Vázquez, the aircraft split in two and crashed into the sea. Five seconds before the bombs were dropped, the ship's artillery hit number 2, Castillo, whose plane exploded instantly. The two remaining aircraft, Ureta and Isaac, reached the target that was already covered in smoke and dropped their bombs on the deck. After the attack, they refueled in flight supported by two KC-130 Hercules aircraft and headed for the Río Grande Military Air Base. The entire operation lasted almost 4 hours and is considered, to this day, one of the most risky and audacious of its kind since World War II. The British government has included this fact in the "War Secrets Act", therefore no British subject will be able to give information about it for another 80 years, under penalty of serious penalties. Its analysts do not deny that the operation was carried out, but they reserve the identification of the attacked ship. The 4 Air Force pilots received the "Cruz La Nación Argentina al Heroico Valor en Combate", the highest distinction awarded by our country. Source: "Air battle of our Falkland Islands", Commodore Pio Matassi / "Aviation Argentina" in the art of Exequiel Martínez. And heres the original text in spanish. La operación se lanzó desde la BAM Río Grande el 30 de mayo a las 12.43 horas. Dos aviones Super Étendard, de la aviación naval, tripulados por el capitán de corbeta Francisco y el teniente de navío Colavino, con indicativo "Ala" y cuatro cazabombarderos A4-C Skyhawk de la Fuerza Aérea (Escuadrilla Zeus), tripulados por los primeros tenientes Castillo, Vázquez y Ureta y por el alférez Isaac. Una vez reabastecidos en vuelo en alta mar, a unos 350 kilómetros al sureste de nuestras Islas Malvinas, comenzaron a descender para cumplir el último tramo rasante de aproximación y ataque al portaviones Invencible, el cual en esos momentos orbitaba a unas 200 millas náuticas al este de Puerto Argentino. Una vez disparado el Exocet, éste habría impactado en la base de la torre de mando, los cuatro A4-C se lanzaron convergiendo casi en línea. Sobre la estela del misil vieron una columna de humo en el horizonte. Cerca del blanco, un misil impactó en el avión del jefe de la escuadrilla, Vázquez, la aeronave se partió en dos y se estrelló en el mar. Cinco segundos antes del lanzamiento de las bombas, la artillería del buque impactó en el numeral 2, Castillo, cuyo avión explotó instantáneamente. Las dos aeronaves restantes, Ureta e Isaac, alcanzaron el objetivo que ya se cubría de humo y lanzaron sus bombas sobre la cubierta. Luego del ataque, se reabastecieron en vuelo apoyados por dos aeronaves KC-130 Hércules y se dirigieron a la Base Aérea Militar Río Grande. Toda la operación duró casi 4 horas y es considerada, hasta hoy, como una de las más riesgosas y audaces en su tipo desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El gobierno británico ha incluido este hecho en el "Acta de Secretos de Guerra", por lo tanto ningún súbdito británico podrá dar información al respecto hasta dentro de 80 años, so pena de graves sanciones. Sus analistas no niegan que la operación se llevó a cabo, pero se reservan la identificación del buque atacado. Los 4 pilotos de la Fuerza Aérea recibieron la "Cruz La Nación Argentina al Heroico Valor en Combate", la más alta distinción que otorga nuestra Patria. Fuente: "Batalla aérea de nuestras Islas Malvinas", comodoro Pio Matassi/ "Aviación Argentina" en el arte de Exequiel Martínez.

I think I can say with some confusion that the Invincible was not sunk. The Internet is so difficult when spurious stories abound🤔