British Aircraft of the Falklands War
British Aircraft of the Falklands War The Falkland Islands is a remote British territory, about 8,000 miles from the UK mainland and just over 400 miles from the coast of Argentina. Foreseeing a…
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British Aircraft of the Falklands War
The Falkland Islands is a remote British territory, about 8,000 miles from the UK mainland and just over 400 miles from the coast of Argentina. Foreseeing a large-scale response from British forces, the Argentine government quickly ordered Operation Rosario, and, on 2 April 1982, undertook an amphibious invasion of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The ownership of the islands had long been disputed, but it reached a boiling point in March 1982, when a group of individuals raised the Argentine flag on South Georgia.
Fortunately, there was a small forward operating airfield on Ascension Island, halfway between Britain and the Falklands. Retaking the islands posed a logistical nightmare for the British task force. At the time, many of the British aircraft did not have air-to-air refueling capabilities and lacked the range to reach the South Atlantic.
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