Awaiting the landing. 20 mm Mg emplacement near Pt Argentino.
May 28th, 1982. This was the last attempt to prevent the fall of Puerto Darwin to British Hands. The Operation was carried out by Argentine Army’s 601th Aviation Batallion, made up by Bell UH-1H, SA330 Puma and Agusta A109A helicopters.
Interesting to note, Blowpipe was used by both sides during the Falklands. It was pretty bonk.
Mainly because the missile was slwoer than the aircraft it was trying to hit!!! Unless the aircraft was coming at you, you didn’t have much chance of hitting it. The Harriers were slower than most of the Argentine aircraft, so I don’t know if they had a better chance.
Was it the 601 Bns Agustas that were “borrowed” by the British at the end of the war?
The blow pipe was not the most brillinat AAA system in use by the Army.
Of the 5 times use twice it failed to lock in the objetive, 2 locked but achieved no hits and the fitht was the one who bring down Glover.
Was it the 601 Bns Agustas that were “borrowed” by the British at the end of the war?
I guess so, I dont have any picture of that helicopter captured.
You really think a British-made missile would be so rude as to shoot down a British-made jet?
No more so than the AIM-9L that shot down several A-4 Skyhawks and a Hercules…
You really think a British-made missile would be so rude as to shoot down a British-made jet?
:D, well I dont know or it was too bad or wasnt properly manned, that variant of the Blow PIpe need to aimed continuosly to the target meanwhile someother MANPDS are fire and forget like the SA-7/16.
I hope this picture is new for you, got it from a book that a “friend of mine” never returned “Falklands, Task Force South”…
I have no idea of his origin more than that, not having the book anymore I can not mention its author.
:shock::shock:
http://www.ecv56condor.com.ar/~panzon/Dagger_bajito_sobre_buque_britanico.jpg
Off-topic: please change your avatar into a ww2 related one.
Thanks.
Delightful 
Having been on these horrible creations I can point out that the boys on board are probably dying to get off#!!!
Observe the front of the craft, under the ramp. A good 1 meter of motino there me thinks. These craft are flat bottomed which mean they rock like a bugger in anything but a mill pond.
Done 1000ydstare, excuse me 4 this but i did no realize the avatar should have to be in relation with WWII, I always use the same avatar as the aliens always made me laugh.
Cheers,
Pánzon
Personally mate, I don’t mind what your Avatar looks like, it is a site rule up held by the MODs… ie Dani, not my good self.
Gracias Pánzon!
My pleasure Dani,
BTW, have yo seen the Dagger? Low, isn´t it?
Juan.
Hola Panzon, bienvenido al nuestro foro, (ese nombre me suena)
By the way the Dagger is here.
It hurts ¡¡
Ricardo Lucero, Dagger pilot, scream of pain after being hit by seadart and forced to eject in San carlos waters, 25th may 1982.
The pilot broke a leg in the process and was captured by the HMS Fearless.
The dark skin colour of Lucero gave place to a funny incident, the britons believ for soetime that the argentine air Force was using Peruvian pilots.In fact Peru helped Argentina selling 10 Mirage Vp, those planes were ferried by peruvians pilots to Argentina , but they came too late for participate in combats and in any case the Air Force ( obviously) rejected the entusiast requeriment of the peruvians to fly combat missions agaist the Royal Navy.
It is an odd part of the male human psyche that urges them to join a fight, even if it does not directly involve them. I remember years ago, when Serbia invaded Croatia, I wanted to go there,grab a crew, climb into a tank, and go hunting.Logically, it made no sense, but vicerally, it made perfect sense. A very strange feeling .(it would have been a glorious ass kicking…):twisted:
Hello there,
In a “pack” of a VHS + book edited by the BBC “Falklands, Task Force South” ( I think it is more than 20 years old), in the video there is a footage of Tte Lucero just being brought to one ship ( if I do not remember bad it was the fearless) after his ejection… there is some drama in the footage as Lt Lucero had a dislocated joint, I think it was one of his legs and was in tremendous pain when surrounded by sailors and at the same time he was being looked after by medical team… you can see his terrible pain+ fear in his eyes and you can see how they shot him with I think was morphine for his enormous pain inside very same he had tried apparently to attack.
I thank the British forces for the treatment and for having taken the task of rescuing him from the water and given treatment to ease his suffering, there was chivalry demonstrated in that event once and once again.
Cheers.
Pánzon.
It is an odd part of the male human psyche that urges them to join a fight, even if it does not directly involve them. I remember years ago, when Serbia invaded Croatia, I wanted to go there,grab a crew, climb into a tank, and go hunting.Logically, it made no sense, but vicerally, it made perfect sense. A very strange feeling .(it would have been a glorious ass kicking…)
Oh, I am pretty sure you would do a great jo in a M-60.
I thank the British forces for the treatment and for having taken the task of rescuing him from the water and given treatment to ease his suffering, there was chivalry demonstrated in that event once and once again.
It was surely chivalrius in that event, but unfortunately wanst always the rule in the land combats.