1982 Falklands War: The AMAZING First Vulcan & Sea Harrier Strikes | DCS Reenactment

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Today we look at 1st May 1982 during the Falklands War. At 0746Z Vulcan bomber Black Buck 1 raid landed a string of 1000lbs bombs across Port Stanley runway. 14 minutes later twenty Sea Harrier FRS.1 jets from 800 & 801 naval air squadrons took off from HMS Invincible and Hermes carriers to lay cluster and conventional bombs on the runway at Port Stanley and Goose Green.
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@GustaHeavy 2 дня назад

The argentine reporter is Nicolas Kasanzew, he at these very days is always giving conference about the war and making difusion about how argentines veterans fought. I have the proud and luck of knowing and being friend of a soldier that survived one of the Black buck raids. It was the 4th of May. He was in the airport in a trench, and the bomb hit a few meters from him and his comrade, they were sepulted by the debris and the rest of the regiment were searching for their corpses but they did survive for 2 hours under 2 meters of earth and stones, until they were founded, without injuries. This was considered a miracle. They stayed in the islands until the end of the war, and of course there are more details to the story. The name of my friend is Jorge Palacios. Great video cap!!! Thanks and greets from Argentina.

@grimreapers 2 дня назад

Amazing info thanks!

@Slikx666 2 дня назад

Too many people died so it's nice to hear about people surviving. I hope he doesn't have any PTSD from what happened, it's horrible.

@GustaHeavy 2 дня назад

@@Slikx666 He is doing very well, always participating in acts, and giving interviews; however his comrade, the other surviving soldier, never spoke again about that experience, and do not particpate in any of the veterans activities. Greetings!

@nathanshoaf6833 19 часов назад

interesting

@TheSpencemeister 2 дня назад

Don't think you are supposed to bring your cat with you on aerial strikes

@grimreapers 2 дня назад

She enjoys the ride.

@StephenSavage-dd7dw 2 дня назад

My dogs going nuts listening to her lol

@TheSpencemeister 2 дня назад

@@grimreapers Cat-sized G-suit sounds adorable

@midnightbluevt 2 дня назад

I thought I was hearing things lul. Also, I have cats too, which only added to my confusion.

@supermilo 2 дня назад

Harrier comes equipped with one behind the pilot, by default

@mavrikmavrik3032 2 дня назад

“I think I can land on a carrier but that little thing we got airborne from was not a carrier”. ROFL!!! One of the best lines I’ve heard from GR for awhile!

@grimreapers 2 дня назад

lol

@Gman-109 2 дня назад

Sounds like Cap's cat was co pliot and wanting to give those Argies hell!

@robcat6377 2 дня назад

was thinking the same thing: please remove cat before flight.

@user-hy7su3jm8z 16 часов назад

Cat is used for scanning enemy targets, called a cat-scan I think. Requires a cat I am told....

@Master-im7jc 2 дня назад

RIP Sharky Ward

@markmaher4548 2 дня назад

Was about to say the same thing. Fair winds & following seas Sharky. We have the watch.

@Gman-109 2 дня назад

@@markmaher4548 Ditto. His book is a MUST read on this subject, my favorite of the 1/2 dozen or so Falklands Harrier accounts/books I've read.

@chrisjones2149 2 дня назад

@@Gman-109 Yes, the book is a great read. Highly recommended to anyone interested.

@markmaher4548 16 часов назад

@@Gman-109 Rick Jolly's "Red & Green Life Machine" is also very much worth a read.

@tomriley5790 2 дня назад

Great to see you using the South Atlantic map! Being an Argentinian helicopter pilot and suddenly seeing harriers flying in low level past you would be a bit of a shock!

@mortoopz 2 дня назад

My favorite little fact about Black Buck; Because there was no point filling in a bunch of the bomb holes, several are still there (and probably will be for hundreds of years more) You can see them clear as day on google earth, south west of the airport look for a marker called 'Canopus Guns', and note how the chain lines up with that one big bit of runway they patched.

@SimonAmazingClarke 2 дня назад

Great mission. 1982, just before I left school. This war reminded me of the dangers I might face when I joined the RAF. I applied three months later. The Vulcan bombings shocked the Argies. They didn't think anything could get to them They had to fortify the Airport with resources from other areas. BN, the Chinook, went onto 18 sqn at Guttersloh after the war. I worked on her 87 to 90

@chrisk_nfl4120 2 дня назад

Always great to see Harriers doing Harrier things (being an absolute beast in whatever task it was given) Would be cool to see some helicopter missions from the Falklands and even some "What if the UK had Apaches" or something!

@therealbettyswollocks 2 дня назад

In hindsight, it is incredible that the UK was able to retake the islands at such distance with such limited resources. At the time, it was almost taken by the public as a given that we would prevail, but we now know how close run a thing it was at key points in the war. The heroics performed by the Harrier pilots were a major part of that. P.S. Matrix's SODCAT definition for navigators was first class fast-jet bants.

@chrisstopher2277 2 дня назад

I watched a PBS frontline documentary on the first fight for Falluja this morning. They probably have the best war documentaries I've seen. It has the people who were on the ground, not the Generals or politicians. It was brutal, but you get to see the best and worst of people in war.

@vintagepairdisplayteam910 2 дня назад

SCRAM! Is an excellent book! I built the full Falklands campaign after reading that (and all the Harrier pilots books!)

@Definitelynotanalienoranything 2 дня назад

I've just finished reading Harrier 809. Excellent book about the Falklands Harrier war. 🇫🇰

@quantumcomata105 2 дня назад

22:27 is somebody's cat meowing? Cats on average will have a Meow session every 100 hours.

@rubiconnn 2 дня назад

lol that's the Harrier's engine, it makes that sound when you throttle back.

@cg9952 2 дня назад

and again around 23:00😂😂😂

@barryrrab 2 дня назад

sounds like Cyclon raiders

@tbe0116 2 дня назад

Definitely a cat

@vec306 2 дня назад

The cat is either hungry or horny.

@tomriley5790 2 дня назад

Appreciate cap using the correct variant of the sidewinder. The GR3 wasn't able to use its INS System as it wouldn't align on the carriers decks so it was all map and compass - the Sea Harriers were able to.

@grimreapers 2 дня назад

Thanks

@cousinjack2841 2 дня назад

Yet another successful mission from our secret weapon Super Cap. Couldn't find the waypoint; (thanks Simba), couldn't drop his bombs; could drop his fuel tanks when he wasn't supposed to and then ditched the airframe. No wonder the Argies gave up.🤣

@grimreapers 2 дня назад

Welcome to my life. This is normal for me...

@timbaskett6299 2 дня назад

I built a model of the USMCs AV-8B after watching a demo at an airshow. They were, and are an amazing aircraft.

@thediscernist1606 2 дня назад

Excellent video. The Balkans conflict lives rent free in my head

@saintuk70 2 дня назад

Nice choice of missions. Brian Hanrahan (sp) was such an iconic voice bringing on-ship coverage during the conflict, as can be seen from your clips.

@grimreapers 2 дня назад

Yeh it makes it so much more real.

@XxusmcsamurixX 2 дня назад

I am a USMC veteran. I was 6332, aircraft election for the Av-8 airframe. Weird little aircraft. And way over engineering made it hard to fix.

@xxxyz721 2 дня назад

The rapier system was nicknamed “repair” by some of my dad’s friends who were on the falklands as they were so unreliable at the time and needed constant fixing…. Though they did use the microwave range finding system on this and other weapons to heat tea and cook food by using the test cycles :).

@dace0326 2 дня назад

1st use of paveway in the Falklands. Crazy 80's

@ricardomartinez1871 2 дня назад

My dogs are barking to the cat LOL

@trev8591 День назад

Pleased you took the ship's cat along for the ride, Cap! (I joined the Royal Navy in 1983, memories of the Falklands were still very fresh and they were changing a lot of things from the lessons learned there).

@neallewis8628 День назад

910 tracker Seawolf - (ex maintainer well after the Falklands war) - 2 modes auto radar guided and autonomous control to target, also had camera and IR which could be guided by operator sat in a seat in the ops room. the type 22 had 1 system forward and 1 aft. short range protection. proximity fuse activated. 6 barrel launcher each end before reload. Certain modifications were made after the war to make it more effective against low level attacks. The Royal Navy also learnt a lot about smoke containment after damage to ships....

@grimreapers День назад

Thanks

@Vyborgclark 8 часов назад

Thanks! Loving the Falklands Content! It is a campaign that gets overlooked.

@JoshSmith-ok7jh 2 дня назад

Another amazing video guys. Love the falklands stuff. Keep it up.

@SA80TAGE 2 дня назад

Cap left his cat in the cockpit again.

@Dan-iv9tg 2 дня назад

I thought I heard meowing!!!!

@erickg9011 2 дня назад

having a Avro Vulcan would be amazing. Also, the English Electric Lightning.

@jrizos06 2 дня назад

That's our Cap - drops no bombs on the mission and makes it back to the carrier first! (underwater)

@grimreapers 2 дня назад

lol, some things never change heh?

@jrizos06 2 дня назад

@@grimreapers That's why we love you!

@StephenSavage-dd7dw 2 дня назад

G’damn that looked ace as you rolled in over the top of two sisters 😮 Reminded me of Flight of the Intruder

@FleetDefenderRA5 День назад

The Vulcan Bomber was one fantastic bird. I know it has a tail, but otherwise was the radar cross section relatively small? Loved the mission! Love the cooperation required.

@WillardWhy 2 дня назад

37:04 From what I've read, fresh WD40 actually increased the RADAR signature on the harrier, and this was noticed when different harriers had different radar signatures. Test done on the paint found that paint that was contaminated with WD40 actually reflected more radio waves than the normal paint.

@grimreapers День назад

Thanks.

@midnightbluevt 2 дня назад

Cool video. The Falklands is such an interesting conflict, I wish I knew more about it. I'll have to pick up some books, including the one you recommended.

@MWSin1 2 дня назад

The Falklands were saved single handedly by Ted's mustache.

@nigeldepledge3790 День назад

I believe Black Buck 1 involved 11 Victors and two Vulcans. However, the primary Vulcan discovered a cabin pressurisation issue shortly after takeoff and had to turn back. Thus the backup Vulcan conducted the first Black Buck raid. And one of their refuelling encounters happened in a storm.

@jyralnadreth4442 2 дня назад

There was a Roland on the islands that caused the task force problems as it shot down the bombs meant for it

@Wilko601st 2 дня назад

for a second i really thought this would be the mission...you know the one where everyone took off, performed to the highest flight standards and returned home for tea and biscuits......alas not to day 🤣 Grea video guys and Cap ive just ordered that book👍

@StephenSavage-dd7dw 2 дня назад

The RAF Regt were the operators of the Rapier. They were not however, allowed to place them optimally, by the Army.

@BobH809 День назад

I remember the Rapier having issues due to the weather, and having a problem getting them to 'settle down.'

@RogueKnight768 2 дня назад

Love Matrix in these

@R0d_1984 2 дня назад

Yeah, it's wrong it he wasn't.

@stevenmiller184 2 дня назад

What a difference JDAMs and Cruise Missiles would have made.

@GrahamMilkdrop 2 дня назад

There actually is a Vulcan mod. It's named the "Hawker Siddeley Vulcan" for some reason and comes only with a grey livery but it works. edit:(By that I mean it installs and appears in mission editor... I haven't tested it thoroughly.)

@grimreapers 2 дня назад

Thanks, I didn't realise or look hard enough I guess.

@R0d_1984 2 дня назад

Lynx was an amazing helo. Love Harries and A-4's.

@sigbjrn-kf9ji 2 дня назад

And that's how you make a reenactment video.

@meh4841 День назад

Cap, hope you are feeling better, I know how frustrating the waiting and the unknown can be with long term health issues. Keep taking it day by day. What books have you been reading (besides Scram) on the Falklands? I love these videos where you go in depth about the actual history before simulating it in DCS. It’s really cool seeing how excited you get about the details of the history and the technology and also the human perspective on the ground. Keep it up!

@grimreapers День назад

Just finished "three days in June" and now on Scram!.

@bobhawkey3783 2 дня назад

Sounds like stowaway cat does not appreciate this mission over water. 🙀

@tomriley5790 2 дня назад

To answer the question on reserves - they got smaller and smaller as the conflict went on - afterall in a vertical landing aircraft you're not going around :-)!

@R0d_1984 2 дня назад

I was in High School when this happened, in Australia, Aussies were really upset (knew diggers who wanted to go), seething just down the surface, you could see the anger in the grown-up; we cheered every time The U.K forces won a victory; i was more shocked at the lost of soldiers and ships, then i was of 9/11...

@olivere5497 2 дня назад

Next you need to look at Argentinian bombing raids on commercial ships. They were rolling freefall bombs out the back of C4 cargo planes fitted with a bomb sight in the copilots seat.

@potusuk 2 дня назад

Tiger cat was the land variant of the Sea Cat which was on many of the RN ships at the time, both were quad launchers, don't think I ever saw one hit a target. Likewise Argentina made use of a land variant of Excoet, that which later struck HMS Gamorgan, RiP shipmates.

@Wolfe351 2 дня назад

the Argies had Napalm stored in drop tanks at Goose Green too, luckily for 2Para I don't think they ever used em

@grimreapers День назад

Pucaras dropped two Napalm canisters on 2 Para but both missed by a mile. One Pucara was hit by a Blowpipe 3 seconds later.

@ivorharden 2 дня назад

21:45 someones pegasus is running rough 😂

@dbvetter7485 2 дня назад

I would hope that Just Flight would port over their Vulcan to DCS

@CheekyChex День назад

I believe the Invincible class were at sometime classified as "through deck cruisers" rather than carriers.

@watcherzero5256 2 дня назад

21:42 Thats a funny sounding Harrier.

@clangerbasher 2 дня назад

It's amazing to think these days Stanley runway would have been TLAM'ed to the n'th degree easier than using your airfryer to cook tea!

@grimreapers 2 дня назад

Yarp

@athodyd 2 дня назад

Kitty in the background doing Argentine psyops to distract Cap

@Slikx666 2 дня назад

Let's just hope there's not a repeat of what happened. Things are already going bad in this world. Rest in peace everyone from all sides involved in the conflict.

@dace0326 2 дня назад

One harrier did a manoeuvre kill on an argue helicopter. Believe the wash from a near flyby caused the crash.

@clangerbasher 2 дня назад

What happened to my comment about Guy Bransby I wonder? The RAF Regiment manned Rapier in the FI War. But a more interesting individual is one Guy Bransby who was in the RAF Reg. He spoke Spanish and went as interrogator. Before he served in the RAF Reg he was in the New Zealand army and went to 'Nam. He has two books on Amazon, one about the FI War, and one about Nam.

@novacat3032 2 дня назад

the big impact of the Black-Buck-Raids was to convince the Argentine Air Force to keep one or two of their best interceptor squadrons in Bueons Aires to guard the capital since it is closer to Ascention Island than the Falklands... and these very capable fighter never got closer to any british forces than several hundrets of miles

@grimreapers День назад

Thanks

@user-ij6mf2hp3r 2 дня назад

Probably have boots de-iceing boots along the leading edge

@SmithandWesson22A 2 дня назад

As a schoolboy in 3rd or 4th grade in Australia we learned abut this.

@R0d_1984 2 дня назад

Was in High school mate. Oi...

@AnthonyAdrianAcker 2 дня назад

Lol Cap, your kitty wants attention. :P I can hear it meowing all throughout the video lol. Pretty funny honestly.

@nigeldepledge3790 День назад

I was under the impression that the purpose of Black Buck was to deter the Argentine forces from stationing any of their fast jets at Port Stanley.

@patmcbride9853 2 дня назад

My cat found this video fascinating.

@christophero55 День назад

Guys that wasn't an accident. Lt. Pickles (the cat) is Cap's WSO and a damn fine one at that. Constant communication with his pilot, feeding him the most important information like: Pickles wants attention. Pickles wants kibble. Feed Pickles. Love Pickles...real mission critical data.

@darkstar453 2 дня назад

I'd love to see a hypothetical scenario where sinking of the Belgrano didn't happen for whatever reason so the Argentine Navy did their planned pincer attack on the British task force.

@therealbettyswollocks 2 дня назад

The Belgrano would have been sunk before it could engage the fleet in that scenario.

@bobmcguirk7272 2 дня назад

Hope you're doing well, Cap!

@exAirMover 13 часов назад

The main benefit of the Black Buck Raids was that they proved to the Argie Government that their Capitol in Argentina was within our reach, so they had to hold their supersonic interceptors back to defend the Capitol

@vhwft 2 дня назад

Dude needs to go feed his cats. Half the video was just cats carrying on like crazy.

@marcosavila8215 2 дня назад

Dear Jon, isnt a way to get these missions you did?, i would pay for it, cheers and is so nice to hear your voice in the videos.

@grimreapers День назад

Just msg me Discord. I don't want any $.

@exAirMover 13 часов назад

Theres something so fundamentaly cool about the Harrier 😎🇬🇧, especially in tje RN Colour Scheme of the time

@theackshow5048 2 дня назад

21:05 Did someone have a kitty stowaway?😁

@Kevin-hb7yq 2 дня назад

With the recent activity in Cuba... have there been any attempts to recreate whatever the hell went on with all of that?

@anthonybonawitz444 2 дня назад

At 21:47 is that someone's cat I hear meowing for the next minute + ?

@sonar357 9 часов назад

I wonder how the Falklands would've gone if the British still used the F4 in the Fleet Air Arm?

@BrianPost--ni6qs7yc4w 2 дня назад

Cap was that your cat meowing in th background upto the 24 minute mark? If the cat is supposed his reo, Caps flying the wrong plane, he should be in the F-4E Phantom :)

@OneCrazyMonkeh 2 дня назад

Out of interest, what planes did the two RAF pilots fly, while they were active military? Always wondered but don't remember it being mentioned. Thanks!

@grimreapers День назад

Those two fly Jaguar and Tornado.

@grimreapers День назад

*flew

@OneCrazyMonkeh День назад

@@grimreapers Brilliant, thanks Cap

@supermilo 2 дня назад

A likely story about the stealth WD40 :)

@wafif2709 День назад

Nice video! does anybody know if we can download anywhere his missions and play them?

@barryrrab 2 дня назад

cloudbase 150 feet? loads of room for a bucanneer, only wish we'd had a proper carrier to do it with at the time... having said that the harriers proved the point of the so much owed by so many to so few.

@markmaher4548 2 дня назад

You can thank John Nott for that, he was the minister of state at the treasury who reckoned we couldn't afford them anymore.

@theoneneo5024 2 дня назад

Is it just me or did the first several minutes of the BBC video seem more like a bunch of guys each trying to figure out their own game plan instead of a mission briefing? I've sat through many military briefings and none of them were remotely like that, although all of mine were US Navy submarine operations and not aircraft.

@grimreapers 2 дня назад

In the book I'm reading at moment, it says that all of this was a giant rush, nothing was really planned properly to begin with. These briefings were done in mess halls or small cabins ad-hoc. Yet another reason I find this conflict so interesting.

@gyratingwolpertiger6851 День назад

A case of making do with the circumstances you're given.@@grimreapers

@nickt9467 2 дня назад

Who has the cat?

@TheMailmanOfSteel День назад

21:45 MEOW!

@SpiderJerusalem-jb6jx 2 дня назад

that was way to easy

@eddiebear34 2 дня назад

Im new to P.C gaming. I can't seem to get this game up and running. I downloaded it, it took hours to download. But i can't make head nor tale of the site.

@R0d_1984 2 дня назад

Can you be more specific; there's areas i can't help (still having problems with keybindings with the A-4)...

@3OPKDEL День назад

The Wessex hunting subs where at South Georgia where it took out a Argie sub, and it was a Wessex HAS 3. LBlack Buck where a terrible waste of time and fuel, made one hole in the runway, nothing else. The SHAR did not try and hit runway on 1 may, but everything around The video clip with SHAR taking off from Hermes are not from the raid as they are carrying AIM-9, on the raid they all carried 1000 lbs bombs and BL 755 CBU, return video might be. No RAF regiment Rapier in the war. Army Rapier have a shared kill with Seacat, Blowpipe and all 20mm, 40mm and all GPMG, SLR and SMG firing. Seawolf and Seadard where moderat succesful, Seaslug and SeaCat where useless. Hermes only had SeaCat, Invincible had Seadard. Both Seadard and Seawolfvare radar guided. The bollocking would be from either Andy Auld 800 or Sharkey Ward 801.

@dace0326 2 дня назад

Navigators. Expendible C' stores ......

@5Andysalive 2 дня назад

What happened to "declaring wars" anyway?

@grimreapers 2 дня назад

Agreed

@ojrmk1 18 часов назад

A bit of Argy Bargy eh?

@justinswain7540 2 дня назад

When you are talking about Rapier at the 20 minute mark, it's a bit misleading. Rapier had a Radar that fed target information into an optical system. The joystick was used to center the target aircraft, but the radar was tracking the target so it was a matter of adjusting the crosshairs until the target was centered rather than tracking the target through the air manually. It needed to do this because it's interceptors didn't have a seeker head so the operator had to dial in the position of the missile. On a side note: something like this seems like it would be perfect for engaging drones in a modern setting. All of the sensor technology is in the launcher instead of the interceptor so in theory you should be able to design very low cost interceptors. Another side note: IMHO if you are going to use the AV-8 as a replacement for the Sea Harrier, you should at least mention that the Sea Harrier had an air intercept radar and the AV-8 doesn't. It's a massive difference for an air to air platform.

@grimreapers 2 дня назад

I'm rusty obviously BUT I thought the radar was an addon to the Rapier system that they didn;t have in the conflict?

@Smurfy0420 2 дня назад

I’m early for once

@talenleader5658 2 дня назад

I was just about to comment

@Foxtrop13 2 дня назад

no Roland AA missiles for argie side?

@freedommike4862 2 дня назад

Meow

@cg9952 2 дня назад

Cat noises???? 😹😹😹😹

@TheCaptainbeefylog 2 дня назад

Air intake on the Harrier engine.

@nigelmacbug6678 2 дня назад

suggestion 1982 Argentinian navy + mainland launched Airforce vs royal navy with the carriers HMS Invincible and HMS Hermes replaced by HMS Ark Royal and HMS Eagle air war 10 Canberra bombers, 130 A-4, 39 daggers, 43 mirage lll, 14 Super Étendard vs 95 phantoms