Falklands Conflict In the Air: How Did The British Win? | American Reacts 

The Vulcan was a brilliant aircraft.. they served their country well and to this day I remember seeing those wounded and burned service men returning, so proud of them all. So sad for those that never got to come home and we all remember them every November when we honour our valiant war heroes.

the Vulcan bombers were also used in NATO Cold War exercises over America, where they nuked America twice.

The Argentinan air force called the Harrier ' The black death ' and some of their pilots actually turned around when intelligence came through to their radios they were facing the Harrier. The US navy still use them.

the Vulcans howl is spine chilling

I believe that had the conflict gone badly for us and British casualties/ fatalities reached a certain level, Maggie was resolved to send a trident missile without a warhead to Buenos Aires and a message the next one will have a warhead. On a brighter note the casualties never approached Maggies trigger point.

You should check the video about how they organised that long range bombing. It was mind blowing! The video is only 10 minutes long and is called: Black Buck One. The Vulcan raid on the Falklands. It’s by the RU-vid channel The Operations Room.

The most interesting comment about this conflict was "The empire strikes back" The most interesting part for me was the fact that Argentina was left alone, they were not attacked in any notable fashion. The Argentinians were very fortunate it was the British they attacked, we do not inflict unnecesary damage to weak nations. Had it been many other nations, the Argentinian nation might have been heavily damaged.

Hi Neal, most of the Pukara ground-attack planes were destroyed on the ground, in a raid by the SAS. Details can be found in "Attack on Pebble Island". Going back to their WW2 roots of destroying the enemy's planes on the ground.

the thing about the harrier and the sea harrier, something i saw personally as a child while on holiday, was that it wasnt just vertical take off, the pilots learned how to do things in it that you would only expect of helicopters, what i witnessed was training against 2 tornados they were chasing the harrier, the harrier came over the crest of the rock face me and my family were paddling in a stream, and nose down, hovered, slowly rotated to flat, then as the tornadoes passed, popped back up, within seconds the 2 tornadoes dropped all speed and turned back, that holiday was filled with many incidents of low flying harriers zipping about

The Belgrano was originally called the SS. Pheonix, It was one of the only ships to survive the attack at Pearl Harbour .

When the British Harriers were retired the US bought all of them, for their pilots to train on vertical takeoff and landing, whilst the F35 was in final development. Which was a great idea, the technology was past its best , but the feeling of hovering in a fighter jet must have been very strange for a fighter pilot.

Vulcan sound is haunting over head,we had one at airport in our city for a show

[Just finished Army basic training a month before]: our understanding was the Argentinian air force said 'no' to invading, their army said 'meh', and their navy shouted 'yes'. After 1 loss (Belgrano) their navy hit in port and wouldn't play any more. Their army (mostly conscripts) were 'meh', but their air force earnt our respect for their commitment and ability to fight.

Fun fact The extended fuel nozzle that long pipe you see on planes was considered to be the most important component for the mission to even begin, but since the old original Vulcans fuel nozzle link was rusted and broken the British needed a replacement, but since all of the other Vulcans were either scrap metal by that point or significantly damaged through rust and corrosion the mission was abandoned to be abandoned when I kid you not😂😂😂😂 The exact fuel nozzle was eventually discovered and found in an RAF bunk room being used as an ash tray 😂😂

5:40 The Blackbuck raids were a technical achievement, but their effectiveness is often debated. The Sqn commander of 801 NAS wanted to use the Sea Harrier to bomb the airstrip from altitude in "card" formation, as he believed in the SHAR's inertial nav system and radar. But 800 NAS in the Hermes didn't trust the system. Hermes was the flagship, and so they could advise "the flag" directly and the bombing by 801 was never cleared.

My dad served on HMS Fearless L10

If the Black Buck raids achieved nothing else, they had the Argie Junta crapping their pants that a Vulcan could appear over BA or anywhere else in Argentina at anytime.

The Argentine air force and navy pilots were good individual "stick and rudder" pilots but they lacked experience and didn't work together well. Training and group tactics trump individual bravery.

17:55 They didn't take off vertically, that way was too fuel hungry. But they the could take off relatively slow speed, and aided by the "ski jump" at the end of the runway.

Love your vids. Keep up the good work.Many thanks.

2:20 They has 8 A-4Q to fly off the carrier. But at the start only 3 (or 5) were considered airworthy, the rest had cracked wing roots from years of flying and being stressed. So the picked the least worst to bring their numbers up to 8. The threat analysis of the carrier airwing was quite high, and then it was dropped suddenly, I think the UK had learnt of the poor condition of the aircraft and that they couldn't be fully loaded or fuelled, or risk coming apart on take-off.

i can recommend the book Vulcan 607 - is tells the entire Vulcan story regarding Falklands and their 3000mile journey with like 8 air to air refueling just to get to the battle

Would you believe, the BBC told the world that the Argentine bombs were not exploded after being fused for higher drops... The Argentines promptly corrected this mistake and British servicemen started dying in greater numbers... yeah, thanks BBC!

Dang ....... danggggg ...... Lieutenant Danggg ... you got legs ! lol

I am 67 yrs old, was at univesity so could not participate. I had two friends that did. They both survived. We had the best Pilots, we couldn't use many. Read Sharyey Ward"s book. The Argentiniens had the bravest pilots. Look you go out on a mission and know you have a 50% chance of survival.They were good and they were brave. One of Sharkey Wards"s Harrier Pilots shot down an Argentinian Canberra. British plane sold to argentina. years ago. He threw up his hands and said "This is murder". He was sent home

The Air battle is only half the story, of course! :)

Because if its effectiveness, the US had their own Harriers. Their effectiveness even brought them to US shores.

Was used to 2-3 Aussie vids a day my man! Hope your not running out😂 but hope you and your girl is doing good bro!

HMS Sheffield got hit because the ship did not put it's defence systems on it to protect itself that's a fact a screw up. That screw up cost the lives of it's crew and the ship in the end but it was not made public on the screw up that kept that under wraps for years till it finally came out years later!

One thing didn't mention harriers could stop in midair.. fast charge engine is concerned I see a plane out of them then it disappeared. They went to have a position and then fire acid passed them

18:20 at the altitude they were operating at, the SHAR was slower, but it could accelerate faster. No one is going into a fight super-sonic, it's pointless. But the SHAR's better acceleration made it the better dog-fighter. If the Argentines tried a turning fight they would lose. Rather it was open the throttle and hopefully not have the SHAR close to shooting range before you're going faster. Also all the Sidewinder kills were from the rear quarter, so the all aspect capability of the seeker head didn't come into play.

Prince Andrew (King Charles's brother). flew helicopters in the Falklands war.

There was also a plan drawn up for an SAS raid to take out the airfield at Río Grande on the Argentine mainland, but it was scrapped because it was basically a suicide mission.

Argentina was crazy to go to war against UK😊

' American reacts to operation Black buck ' is good. Thats some going refueling that Vulcan. Really. As a one off operation !

The pychological effect on Argentina cannot be udervalued, all of a sudden Argentina ITSELF was within range of attack ! Something they had no means of preventing or retaliating against.

the Argentine forces actually kept missing their targets for so long, either too low or too late when they dropped their ordinance... until... the BBC (of which the Argentine Prime Minister was a big fan of), dropped the ball and announced WHY the Argentine bombers were failing and suffering so many losses... it was the BBC who broadcasted that the reason they had not scored a hit was because of those very reasons.... as soon as this was seen, the bombers started hitting their mark every time... resulting in the sinking of British ships. another thing was an old friend of mine who served during that time found a small Argentine forward camp, which looked like it was abandoned in a rush.... whereby he and his unit found US made Stinger shoulder launch missile systems... which were supplied to the Argentine forces... those very weapon systems were not even offered to British forces during that time until after the conflict was over. when a US officer had given a talk with British Army troops explaining what they were and when he introduced himself he said "I bet you lads haven't seen anything like this before" to which my mate replied "actually, I have, and I took down an Argie Baccarri with it" he didn't believe him and asked him to demonstrate how to operate the demonstration unit he had... of which he went through every step and repeated what he did... the officer and my mate's CO asked him to stay after the briefing and explain where and how he knew that.... turned out the weapons were sold to the Argentine forces despite a UK/US alliance but officially the US officer couldn't confirm, and stated he would investigate it... everyone knew that was basically him saying the US screwed the pooch on that one and got caught but didn't wanna admit any wrongdoing you should check out the incident where the Royal Airforce nuked the US twice (was during a cold war wargames demonstration, where Royal Airforce Vulcan Bombers were used), this was to test the US new air detection and interception defence system that was being tested and the RAF beat it twice ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--Wx6npt421c.html

No disrespect to the British forces, it was a mammoth task in anyone's book, but it was a series of fortunate events that aided them. ARA Veinticinco de Mayo was involved in landing Argentine troops initially but it developed engine trouble and withdrew to sea. The Argentine air force was then limited to attacks from the mainland. The sinking of the ARA General Belgrano, weather conditions and an unwillingness to risk their one ageing, second-hand aircraft carrier involved in the conflict meant the Veinticinco de Mayo played no significant part from then on. Britain's relationship with the weather means it's always on their side; something Argentina should have learned from the Spanish Armada! 😉 You're right - we got lucky, but we seem to have a knack of having an awful lot of luck for a very long time! Britain must be blessed by the only god that matters - Poseidon (with support from Taranis)! Just kidding, there's no such thing as gods - it was achieved by superior firepower, training and good ol' fashioned Big British Bollocks.

Why do you have an Australian 🇦🇺 flag up? Can I suggest a “Royal Navy white ensign” is more appropriate. 👍🏻

I thank God Australia, NZ, Uk, Canada, USA, Japan, and most of Europe is on the same side

The Australian RAAF flew the exact same Mirage at the time and the RAF sent personal to Australia and the Australians gave the Brits all the Mirages capabilities

How they won ,Was a combination of Training Training. Balls of Steel and American Technology in the Air to Air missile sold to Britain. The Americans wanted to see how it performed the British showed how good it was .

The lesson i hope your all learning here is. Yes we are are fading empire yes we are fading away economically and industrially. However. Our fighting spirit and the will to defend our own no matter were they are will never fade! The brittish will never ever be slaves. 💪🇬🇧👍🫡

Watch 'Falklands most daring raid' around 45min long, all about the raid on Stanley great documentary.

sharky ward one of the best harrier pilots ever .

“Does anyone know how to fly a helicopter?” SAS talking to SAS. They flew it.

The US operated nearly 400 Harrier 'jump jets' of the 800+ that were built.

Learned a few things more about the air war. That I didn't know. Few of my friends just left the army faw weeks before the war.. That was interesting., 👍

Andrew(?) Garcia has made a series of three hour-long, very detailed films about the Falklands Conflict, for ITN. This gives relation of personal experience of troops from both sides. Also, the memoir of an Argentinian conscript's experience in 'Los Chicos de la Guerra', in English translation.

The British has never had overwhelming numbers. At it's peak the national army was about 100k. There were private armies like in India almost as big as that, but they were financed by private enterprise. The key to British success was technology and strategic thinking combined with tactical superiority when necessary. The golden rule was don't go picking fights, there's always one starting that needs dealing with anyway... Only a fool starts wars they don't have to fight, and only the king to the kingdom of fools seeks conflict where there is none. It's not the ever quoted colonisation but the primary goal was trade. Colonialism wasn't really a priority, most territory was gained consequentially by victorious military confrontation, often defensive or protective in nature in aid of vested interests, not confrontation for territory. Veered off track there... My point is it's not the biggest that always wins, and winning comes in many forms. Objectives are important as a measure of success. It's not always about territory, often territory can be an unexpected addition to the primary objective.

As a Brit I'm really glad the Argies didn't manage to make their AVRO Lincolns Airworthy, That would have been a bad time in San Carlos Bay!

There is some great videos on RU-vid about Operation Black Buck, well worth a watch

look for the book TASK FORCE it is a great read about the war and how the british took them on they paid a high price on lives of the royal navy and ships lost but it showed the world how not to mess with the royal navy

They should’ve just re-engineered the Harrier instead of making the overly complex and expensive F35. I think if it was up to me (me being a world renowned aeronautics engineer) I’d have a tripod system instead of quad like the Harrier, with one large exhaust at the rear, and definitely more naturally stable than the ridiculous biped system the F35 has. And Id site the exhausts above the wing level to give the plane more natural balancing, and when the front twin exhausts point rearward, they’ll increase airflow over the wing, creating more lift.

Cheers Neal.

The country defending will always fight harder, the Argentina's were let down by their government.

ahve you watched to one with jeromy clarkson about the victoria medal

Should never have got rid of the Vulcan Bomber fleet could have been upgraded to make it last into the 21st century.

They were lucky but also good.

Nothing beats experience.

Bokhara aircraft 'counter-insurgency' - that means bombing and strafing demonstrators, I presume.

Got to hand it to the R.N and army as it was a close run race winning that campaign and should’ve been a wake up that 2 carriers were inadequate for the empire, the Harrier shone but 2 Carriers still aren’t enough to maintain the sea dominance of R.N’s yester year..

The Falklands have just discovered oil … and have a new government… so this is likely to kick off again.

You go for the British in the air you won’t win against all odds Britain win Battle of Britain and falklands

In fairness at the time the lack of Yank support was a wee bit annoying, but your secretary of state (was it James Baker or someone at the time? dunno) warned Argentina they were facing a World power and would lose. So, Yay for doing the base minimum Yanks, I suppose. Brits: "Fine, we'll do it ourselves". 😉

Britain were lucky in war so many times!?

Just so you know the only country now still flying the Harrier are the US Marines 🫡 our loss your gain brother

The Vulcans were the aircraft the nuked the usa twice in war games.

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The UK was loosing the war and the air battle. Then the USA threatened Argentina and General Menéndez surrender. The UK by itself was only capable to be defeated.