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Laurie
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Vulcan. The two raids scared the living daylights out of the Junta. They retained their major strike aircraft in Argentina to counter the Vulcan should it stray ! towards Argentina. The Junta I suspect would have been finished if the Vulcan had struck at Argentina. They must have been dumb struck that an aircraft of this type could reach Argentina. Could bomb Buenos Aires.
The Belgrano. The point about the Belgrano was that their Aircraft carrier was in the north. The Belgrano in the south with 2 destroyers (British Built). A two point attack splitting British Forces. Clever. Why were they in these positions if they were not there to go to war !
The Belgrano, out side of the exclusion zone, was on the very edge of the Burwood Bank an area of sea which is shallow. The Argentinians knew that the Submarines in this case the Conqueror could not follow them over the shallows. What was to do. You sit there in a submarine and allow the dangerous Belgrano to cross the shallows (and not to be able to follow) and attack the British Fleet with the Argentinian Carrier attacking from the north.
No this is war no holds barred. You attack your main threat eliminate them. Conqueror with cabinet approval did that sank the Balgrano Then Admiral Jorge Anaya retired the Twenty-fifth of May Argentinian Carrier to port. The pince movement had failed. From then on there was no threat from the Argentine Navy although the Royal Navy were not to know that. Did not the Argentinians attack from outside the exclusion zone with their aircraft is that not the same as the Belgrano.
British Exclusion Zone. Anything in the zone would be attacked and destroyed. But anything out side that zone with the intention of attacking the Fleet would also be attacked. If you were in charge would you wait for a disaster to happen ? This was war, one side would win, no holds barred, war is a dirty game. It is not a game played to rules as football or cricket. In war you are not nice to your enemy you are there to win to restrict the losses. Last point who started the "game" ?
Laurie
Vulcan. The two raids scared the living daylights out of the Junta. They retained their major strike aircraft in Argentina to counter the Vulcan should it stray ! towards Argentina. The Junta I suspect would have been finished if the Vulcan had struck at Argentina. They must have been dumb struck that an aircraft of this type could reach Argentina. Could bomb Buenos Aires.
The Belgrano. The point about the Belgrano was that their Aircraft carrier was in the north. The Belgrano in the south with 2 destroyers (British Built). A two point attack splitting British Forces. Clever. Why were they in these positions if they were not there to go to war !
The Belgrano, out side of the exclusion zone, was on the very edge of the Burwood Bank an area of sea which is shallow. The Argentinians knew that the Submarines in this case the Conqueror could not follow them over the shallows. What was to do. You sit there in a submarine and allow the dangerous Belgrano to cross the shallows (and not to be able to follow) and attack the British Fleet with the Argentinian Carrier attacking from the north.
No this is war no holds barred. You attack your main threat eliminate them. Conqueror with cabinet approval did that sank the Balgrano Then Admiral Jorge Anaya retired the Twenty-fifth of May Argentinian Carrier to port. The pince movement had failed. From then on there was no threat from the Argentine Navy although the Royal Navy were not to know that. Did not the Argentinians attack from outside the exclusion zone with their aircraft is that not the same as the Belgrano.
British Exclusion Zone. Anything in the zone would be attacked and destroyed. But anything out side that zone with the intention of attacking the Fleet would also be attacked. If you were in charge would you wait for a disaster to happen ? This was war, one side would win, no holds barred, war is a dirty game. It is not a game played to rules as football or cricket. In war you are not nice to your enemy you are there to win to restrict the losses. Last point who started the "game" ?
Laurie
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