The Missing Vulcan - Falklands 1982 

It really does. They need to learn how to play Hot Cross Buns.

Nice one...

Some minister obviously thought people being vaporized by Soviet atomic weapons wasn't bad enough on its own 😦

I want to hear a shity recorder version of that

Every airman with a kid is predisposed to react to those tones with "I'll be at the pup, love". Only replace pup with flightline and love with sir

Life goes so fast ! 🙁

Likewise my first introduction to the Vulcan bomber, although I saw the movie some years before the Falklands. And many years later I had the pleasure of sitting in the cockpit of one of the retired Vulcan bombers.

i watched that a few days ago, youtube is finally doing some good with recommendations

It was parked at the side of the airport next to a major road which resulted in traffic jams when thousands of locals turned up to see the Vulcan.

I did not know about the diversion either. Great bomber. Unique the Vs are...

I remember when the news came out that Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. I told my friends Argentina just bit off a hell of a lot more than it can chew. I grew up with a mother that was born in England. The tenacity of the English people when their backs are against the wall is really surprising. Just ask Hitler. My biggest concern for the British was the absence of large aircraft carrier. Yeah they got the job done with their baby carriers. But the cost in lives was much higher then it needed to be. The Harrier is a sweet air support fighter with a limited air-to-air capability at the time. The biggest problem with the Harrier in this role is the range or if you prefer the radius of action. That is why I worried about the carrier situation. If the Ark Royal had still been in commission they would have been flying f-4s off of that deck. The F4 was originally designed specifically as a fleet defense fighter. It had the radius of action to protect the British surface units. It also had the performance to take on anything Argentina can throw at the Royal Navy. I for one was not surprised by the end results. And I also ardently supported the United Kingdom recovering their territory.

I didn't realize that, thanks for the reminder. Yeah, starting to feel my age.

@@JohnRodriguesPhotographer Yes, I suppose it's their territory for having criminally stolen it from the natives years back. Gotta cling to those last tattered remains of an empire, right? A far superior turn of events would have been dead Paras, sunken ships, and a roundly trounced Brit military sadly skulking back home, never to return... What is satisfying though, is that this battle marks the absolute last time England will ever be able to project military power, for the remainder of human history. English pathetic power play politics are well past their prime. Certainly no longer a force to be reckoned with on the world stage...

@@BeingFireRetardant a truly magnificent feat of British military force and the defeat and downfall of fascist dictatorship. Rejoice in the fact that the worlds toughest troops chased these cowards off the Falklands, which as you should know was a sovereign British territory before the state of Argentina even existed. I would also encourage you to look into Her Majesties Royal Navies two new super carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth II and HMS Prince Charles currently being commissioned. Rule Britannia 👍

@@BeingFireRetardant Someone sounds a bit triggered LOL.

Yeah,only XM607 received alot of interest,there's even an hr.long documentary on it but too bad nothing on the others,til now of course! Mark did it again.👍

Bashir Muhammad to a point. Unfortunate how due to ICBMs and surface to air missiles this plane began to lose traction.

About 12 years between the Lanc and the Vulcan. Avro were among a number of genius level British aircraft manufacturers

The Avro Arrow as well.

Too bad the ICBM fuck us over

Yeah, the V1, V2...😂🤣

Both the Vulcan and Victor look like they came out of a 60's Sci-fi magazine, I love them.

As were all the V Bombers I think

Keith Allver The screams of the Vulcans engines are something else

Still is...

@Gar ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O8rVwhnjBr4.html

Many German (Hessian)Generals and advisors helped the Flegling colonies beat Back the British, to become the USA

Hmmm... tell your grandfather you were lucky that the Argentines were incredibly dumb. Had the Argentines been just dumb, your Navy fleet would have probably been sunk completely! Truth is the Argentines taught the whole military world a good lesson, especially those who are deemed a super power. You thought you were in for a walk in the park, and you were proven awfully wrong. We Aussies didn't know that so much could be achieved with our own Mirages and Scooters as the Argentines showed us. Respects to them all.

Graham Kyle Vulcan could you tell us what the argies were meant to have taught you, because all they did was to subjugate an island and in the process ignore the will of the people, then got smashed because they underestimated the country they took the island from.

Yes, as if any country would ever "underestimate" the third most powerful Navy in the world just like that. I speak up for all the brave man who went to fight that war in spite of that. And they have taught the world that they could fight a formidable enemy with aircraft so obsolete that I don't think your country's airmen would have dared. That's what the Argentines taught me. And by God they fought bravely.

@@RagingBulCorp faltan 13 años para cumplir 200 años de ocupación ilegal de nuestras islas.

The howl

I saw one a few years ago when it flew over Belfast. Too far away to get the sound of it (kicking myself for not being to the hills over Belfast) I did get a good look and it was such an ominous looking thing.

I attended an open day at RAF Waddington in the late 1970s, and they conducted a simulated scramble of four Vulcans taking off simultaneously. It had to be heard and felt to be believed...

Got to view one at Goose Bay, Labrador airport. It was left by RAF for static display. Dam big bird. No problem to see on google earth.

I saw one video about the black Buck raids discussing the difficulties finding the parts they needed. One of the parts they can find was sitting in the ready room you being used as an ashtray! Yeah they scooped it up cleaned it up and put it in the plane.

Just finished reading Vulcan 607 by Rowland White. I highly recommend it, as mentions the incident about the part being used as an ashtray.

"Like a bat out of Huddersfield" - quote from the Northern comedian Mike Harding many years ago. Strangely appropriate here :-)

You lucky Sod!!

I liked the pub at Stevenage: "Edward The Confessor", locally known as "Ted The Grass" ...

@@vk2ig I've been there, years ago. It wasn't too bad, really.

I heard 'Smells like Teen Spirit' for the first time in the Vulcan pub in Blackburn. Was like being hit by twenty 1000lb bombs, lol.

The fact that it was a useless and highly inefficient operation that caused problems for the already stretched Sea Harriers is probably less important.

@Faravahar You know nothing my friend

@Faravahar Yes, it was a close run thing and an outstanding military operation just to attempt it.

The commander of that ship was even warned of the peril they were in,

If the Argentinian Air force had fused their bombs right they would of gave the Brits a good run .. You Brits need to understand this .. You Brits yes would of won but at a way bigger cost .

@ItHz2p military aviation history released a vid on Vulcan today

Please copy links to anyother military aviation history and post on comments.

@ItHz2p Military History not Visualized did a vid on the Kett

Miles ahead of nearly everyone else .. Just no money to fund anything

James Walsh I thought a quantum leap is the smallest leap that can be made, across two electron shells. Agree with your point of course.

And at the same time the decision was being taken to develop Concorde. It was an astonishing time for sheer engineering innovation.

Me too. I knew there was more than one raid & an aircraft had to land in South America when the probe snapped. I had no idea there were so many though. Outstanding work Mr. Felton!

Vulcan gets second place on my list. B 58 Hustler has the top spot.

Tell the truth.....as a kid you glued your sheets together

@@richardnixon4345 [expletive deleted]

America: we're neutral Everyone with a brain: no bitch, you were never neutral in anything from WW2 onwards.

It's the neighborly thing to do.

I almost feel like you're... Oversimplifying

@@Schmidty1 neither were the Swiss then

@@keeperofthecheese Business is business, if the UK agrees to buy/"buy" some fancy missiles, then theres no reason to not carry out a perfectly legitimate/"legitimate" transaction...

I would say the B-58 Hustler was a better looking aircraft.

yes you are very simple

Yes I am

I too am simple, I see halo I like no matter the comment

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Well it did.Now we know thanks to Dr Felton.

Not surprising when they also provided satellite maps, Sidewinders, Shrikes,Gas, etc.

That's true, the Vulcan stay on radio silence bet the Brasil don't do a move. - The Brazilian ATC aways detect the Vulcan in operation Black Buck. - The F-5 start one exercise when the scramble is order. - The missile Shrike never delivered to British. - In neutral situation Brazilian diplomacy only late the liberation the Vulcan. - The Crew of Vulcan stay in Vacation " that's true " on official club of Brazilian air force base in Galeão airport.

Let's use old & huge bombers to bomb the shit out of some poor hunta guys some 100500km away, while eastern block military armada is ready to launch invasion under our noses at this very moment) remember, it was only 2.5 years after Afghanistan invasion, the second most dangerous period of cold War since Cuba & Vietnam.

Understandable, though in hindsight very risky logistics for the Vulcans. Harriers have a nightmarish maintenance schedule so I'm sure they were interested in preserving their air worthiness for future battles.

@@painmagnet1 they had to fight with what they got. At the end it was more an embarrassment than any real combat improvement for them. (Like Israelis always did, fought with anything they can pilot/drive. They bombed the shit out of Egypt and Syria back in 1960s&1970s, then hit Tunisia coast and heart of Iraq in 1980s just with jet fighters and little to none refueling tankers. Even now they don't have strategic bombers like russians or americans and still deliver bombs to Iraq - Syria daily) damn, they don't even have a helicarrier or cruise missiles like Russia or UK - US and still remain #1 fear factor for all kinds of islamic terrorists across ME)

It wasn't really about saving the Harriers, it was demonstrating that Argentina was in range of RAF bombers, giving them a lot more to think about.

@@zipfish This raid was more to show that the next bomber maybe over the capital with a nuclear bomb as Maggie had terms to Enemy including removing Fighters from island and sea lanes cleared around island both were made by the enemy after a show of force 1st by subamarine sinking a war ship than this bombing raid of the air field. A book says a nuclear bomb was on the base island of operations during the war.