Those pictures of Royal Marines lying on the ground as prisoners, were an excellent piece of propaganda. When the British public saw those pictures of their ‘boys’ being splashed accross the newspapers, being treated that way - the war was on, and they were up for it.
Agreed.
And this is my favorite of all, Cap Marcos Carballo and ltn Carlos Rinke attacking the HMS Broadsword, 25th may 1982.
Would the target be the enemy water?
'Cos that’s where all the fire is going.
And, unless my failing memory fails me, Broadsword survived this attempt to sink it by the apparent cunning Argentinian plan to generate fatal waves by churning up the ocean with ill-directed fire.
Or did it disappear in the big white plume at middle, one third from right?
Maybe a recently submerged enemy sub. Or maybe they are just trigger happy…who knows!
My bet is that it was Lochness monster trying to join the fight.
Definitaly hard to see why you like that picture Panzerknacker.
It is just bullets going in to water.
WRT the propaganda, definitly a back fire, but at that time the Junta really didn’t believe they were going to be bitchslapped by the IRON LADY.
They were just revelling in their shortlived victory.
I like because it shows the heavy AAA fire that the argentine pilot had to withstand in those days.
Carballo hit with the Broadsword wth a 500 kg bomb but it didnt explode.
I wonder what the WREN is doing on the boat?
She is far right on the close up of hte name, with the crew standing along the netting. WRENs did not go to sea in them days.
Many bombs dropped by the Argentines did not go off. They were fused wrong.
HMS Plymouth also suffered bomb damage but no explosion.
Similarly the Harriers also dropped bombs on the Narwhel (A trawler used by the Argentines for Int gathering) that didn’t go off!!!
The SBS had to board it later.
Perhaps she is the reason the bomb didn’t explode - it was a chivalrous bomb?
The photo is probably taken as the ship returned to Plymouth Sound or Portsmouth. They probably choppered her in (excuse the pun) to chear up the jolly Tars, and the ones with funny ‘greeny’ looking berets.
HMS Plymouth also suffered bomb damage but no explosion
Some images of the HMS Plymount hit by bomb the 8th June, and for 30mm guns earlier.
Cannon hits.
Bombed, the ship seems wasted form this view but I guess the damage wasnt severe.
The bomb hole.
Can assure you it looks worse than it actually was.
She is tied up in UK now as part of a museum.
She is the larger of the two ships closest to land.
There is a U-boat, HMS Onyx, another ship HMS B something, and a light ship also there. And a landing craft from the falklands.
The damage, is painted up in red, so it is clearly visable. (for museum purposes).
Are you sure?
Reference right hand top corner. About one fifth in from top and same distance from side is an object which I can’t make out, but could be a plane.
Anti-aircraft fire directed at that object and the plane which took the photograph would be likely to be on a trajectory which wouldn’t hit the water in the photo.
The large plume on the right is not consistent with other alleged AA fire, but might be with something dropped from the object I can’t indentify.
Even if it’s AA fire, it’s not a patch on what the Americans and Japanese routinely flew into in the Pacific, which wasn’t a patch on what everybody flew into in Europe.
It appears to be a Skyhawk to me. It also appears to have something attached to its underwings, possibly bombs. I would assume that drop-tanks would have been released by this time?
How can you see that?
Let me know who your optometrist is.
Or maybe it’s time for me to stop buying cheap Chinese spectacles at markets.
I wasn’t even sure there anything there, apart perhaps from an unfortunate albatross.
As I said - not every marksman can be a sniper. 
By your standards of visual acuity, I’d be bloody lucky to avoid falling over my seeing eye dog!
It remains for Panzerknackers to explain why AA fire is directed into the ocean rather than the more conventional approach of firing it into the air, where the planes are.
I think I could explain that, but I wouldn’t want to steal PK’s thunder.
By the way, have you been at the porridge again?
It remains for Panzerknackers to explain why AA fire is directed into the ocean rather than the more conventional approach of firing it into the air, where the planes are
You are wrong, I dont have to answer that, the british gunners have.
Anti-aircraft fire directed at that object and the plane which took the photograph
No airplane take that picture, It was a crewmember of the HMS Broadsword.
Mirage V near miss.
Aerospatiale Gazelle down.
A-4.
Sea Cat shot
You don’t have to answer that, or you can’t?
32Bravo
Sitrep.
Out
I have my guessing, a bad aim , but as I said I am not the best person to answer that.:rolleyes:
Bofors 40/70 onboard British ship (Fearless?)
