Royal Navy Sea Harrier Falklands War - #4 of 4 'Sharkey' Ward. 

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That is sad, wasn't he the guy that had a go at the PM when the Harriers were binned in 2010.

Richard Vernon Yes. We talked about that when we flew. I told him I was watching the tv saying looking at that tosser, he won’t go far. And then laughed because he ended up sitting next to me.

@@tonkerdog1243 I remember seeing a bit of it on the TV, Should have seen the send off of the Harrier as I was based at Coningsby at the time (41 Squadron had a few of them for test and evaluation) but unfortunately I was detached to the Falklands for four mouths at the time.

So sad to hear of Kris’ passing, what did he die of?

bertiesimmonds I can’t really say here. Very complicated personal issue.

Look for videos of Argentinian pilots, veterans of Malvinas, as Carballo, Owen Crippa, Carracedo, Mela, "Talo" Moreno, Barrionuevo, Sylvester... "Man without honor" is the best thing that they say about this "Sharkey" guy when they name him. They don't talk like that about "Mog" Morgan, for example. Shooting a missile against a cargo military airplane? That's totally OK in a war. Argentinians would have done the same. To give the "coup de grace" with his cannons to the wounded plane not allowing the crew to try to land on the sea and maybe (just maybe) save their lives, that's the problem.

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@@llanero9177 war is war

@@llanero9177 yeah, he states he felt good about it. I don’t think that’s an appropriate remark.

@@DAllan-lz3lg He felt good about shooting the Hercules. The fact that there were people on board, as he said "was not his problem".

It is great honor to be Pilot on Sea Harrier in the new zealand air force but I have to build Shanxi 118 for Queenstown new zealand for improving the general aviation & civil aviation industry.

It's a great book, I do hope you've bought and read it!

@@gavingoldthorp4093 not yet, good reminder though.

@@thelmaviaduct The problem with Ward's book is a lot of big picture stuff where he was not present that he put in the original edition was not based on research already done by others but on hearsay and thus is wrong. That is one of the reason's he gets slated on Pprune.

@@richardvernon317 are sure it's not jealousy??

@@thelmaviaduct Nope, the people who slag him off flew Phantoms FGR 2's and Tornado F Mk 3's. In a real fight, they would have hacked Commarder Wards Sea Harrier out of the sky with a Sparrow III or Skyflash missile from well outside Sidewinder range and there would have been cock all he could do about it, bar Viff to break missile lock, then he's at 200 odd knots while the opposing fighter is doing 600 and he gets a Sidewinder Lima in the face, which he can't reply to because the missile off the faster fighter has longer legs (Missile max speed is missile burn out speed , plus launch aircraft speed). He also bad mouthed a lot of people in the RAF, some of which was deserved and a lot of which was not.

Yes QWI (Qualified Weapons Instructor)

Everytime I see your near copy and paste comment it screams "I don't understand war" and "I'm making excuses for the poor performance of my armed forces". If you are that bad at it, and when you take a warplane into theatre and you expect the minute you run out of air to air missiles you get a free pass then it's quite simple: Don't invade another country.

@@davidspencer7254 The harriers failed in their mission, they could not prevent the Argentine bombers from attacking their ships, in fact their performance was so mediocre that they could not even prevent the Hercules freighters from operating until the last day of the war at the Malvinas airport. They boast about the success of the harrier but it is not made clear that it was almost always against planes configured to attack ships with bombs and without fuel or air-to-air missiles to engage in a dogfight. The air-to-ground role of the harriers was also mediocre, they were never able to put the Malvinas runway out of service and many were victims of the Argentine anti-aircraft artillery. Curious that someone from a colonialist country advocates not invading... I would tell him to grab the books and see that in 1833 the English invaded the islands and evicted their governor Luis Vernet and the population. The war was not won by England but was lost by the ineffective junta that had no battle plan or equipment for defense, putting the combatants at a disadvantage. Despite that, the casualties on land were very similar, and not only did we sink 6 ships but another 14 received bombs...Taking into account that England was the second power in NATO, having suffered such damage from a country underdeveloped with airplanes from the 60s or speaks very well of the Argentines...or very badly of the British...

Maybe their poor tactics costs them is what you are saying.

May turn out to be true, but as we heard from Com Ward, a lot will depend on the men in the cockpits.

I’m pretty sure an F35 will win an engagement with a Harrier

@@DeltaAssaultGaming maybe VTOL versus VTOL

The Harrier was designed in the 60s.......50 years before the F35 ! The Harrier was primarily designed for knocking out Tanks, not as an air interceptor.......the F35 is designed in the information age to utilise stealth. It is designed to shoot down enemy aircraft, from range, before the enemy aircraft even know that it is there. It would be disgraceful if the Harrier could compete with the F35 !

Tell that to the people who live in the Falklands.

What you say is a HALF-TRUTH. The reality is that the merit does not correspond so much to the 9L sidewinder but to the wrong decisions of the Argentine air force 1) not to operate from the islands A4C aircraft that could carry the shafrir missile 2) not having lengthened during April the 600m of runway necessary for mirage and daggers to operate from there with air-to-air missiles. The success of the harrier/sidewinder was only because of the 21 planes shot down, 19 were absolutely defenseless without ANY air to air missile The only 2 Argentine planes that carried air-to-air missiles at the time of their downing were the dagger of ardiles and the mirage of perona both on May 1