Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising - Page 35

watzizname · 29-03-2012, 21:23

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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan

Did you see the program the other day about the Vulcan mission to bomb the runway at Stanley?

Falklands Most Daring Raid, I downloaded and watched it last night..

Described as a Dam busters for the eighties type mission.. made even more similar by them dropping the same type of 1000 LB bombs the Lancaster would ordinarily carry.

I like how everyone always has a go at the French for supplying the Exocet, yet the guys on this mission seemed more concerned with the British built Tigercat missile system they'd have to go up against.

Certainly was a gutsy, if desperate mission though.. 11 tankers for 1 antiquated plane (which still might not have enough fuel to succeed) required a larger set of stones than I think any of those currently running things have.

Tim Deegan · 30-03-2012, 08:24

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Originally Posted by watzizname

I like how everyone always has a go at the French for supplying the Exocet, yet the guys on this mission seemed more concerned with the British built Tigercat missile system they'd have to go up against.

I had exactly the same thought when I watched it.

Kymmy · 30-03-2012, 12:40

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Originally Posted by watzizname

I like how everyone always has a go at the French for supplying the Exocet, yet the guys on this mission seemed more concerned with the British built Tigercat missile system they'd have to go up against.

I don't think the Vulcans would ever have been bothered by the exocet anti-ship missile

Tim Deegan · 30-03-2012, 13:08

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Originally Posted by Kymmy

I don't think the Vulcans would ever have been bothered by the exocet anti-ship missile

No, but our Harriers might

Kymmy · 30-03-2012, 13:22

Yet the program wasn't about the harriers..

Tim Deegan · 30-03-2012, 19:38

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Originally Posted by Kymmy

Yet the program wasn't about the harriers..

I was thinking outside the box Kymmy

watzizname · 30-03-2012, 22:34

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Originally Posted by Kymmy

I don't think the Vulcans would ever have been bothered by the exocet anti-ship missile

I doubt the Vulcan would have been bothered either, but then that wasn't the point i was making

The point I was trying to make (perhaps a little poorly) was that the French weren't the only folk selling weapons systems to the Argentines, but the only folk to be singled out for it, time and again..

Kymmy · 31-03-2012, 07:39

I would have been more concerned about the Roland systems that the argentines had than the subsonic tigercats..

**Maggy** · 31-03-2012, 13:14

Oh Hell! The Techno Geeks have taken over..

**Chris** · 31-03-2012, 13:15

You know, I *almost* made an electro-pop reference earlier this morning, but then I remembered post #522

**Maggy** · 31-03-2012, 13:56

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Originally Posted by Chris

You know, I *almost* made an electro-pop reference earlier this morning, but then I remembered post #522

That's the problem.Half the time it's a fellow MOD whose taken things off topic.

**Hugh** · 31-03-2012, 15:32

Tim Deegan · 31-03-2012, 19:22

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Originally Posted by Kymmy

I would have been more concerned about the Roland systems that the argentines had than the subsonic tigercats..

They weren't mentioned on the program though. So they weren't even considered.

Kymmy · 04-04-2012, 12:01

Well Dauntless is off to the falklands

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17609577

I wish all that sail on her a good voyage

**Chris** · 04-04-2012, 12:09

That is one impressive ship. I watched one of her class (may have been Dauntless herself, not sure, was too far away) doing sea trials in the firth of Clyde a few summers back. Plus, having at one time commuted to work along the Clydeside Expressway I watched two of the class being built at the Govan yard. It's nice to see the finished vessel fully crewed and under her own steam.