It wasn’t 3 on 30 May I think you misunderstood.
3 Sea Harriers were lost during low level transit from the carrier, all flown into the sea at night. 2 were a pair that are thought to have collided.
Hello all, do you think that the shortage of fuel of the Harriers and the fact that fliying low consumes a lot of fuel would have made those low level dashes literaly short, thus giving the adeversay Intel guess the positions by studying the paterns, as I undertand aerial operations were conducted from far east from the islands, ( “Admiral Capetown”) and those low final runs were obviously quite dangerous as it seems especially on the way out when heavily loaded and with a lot of drag. And consider the loitering time, the perhaps battle, I remember from Ward´s book that one time he came so short that the Invincible captain came in his direction a 30 knots.
Cheers.
No they weren’t short 40-60 nm was fairly typical, they were fairly disciplined about it. Though as noted it was a costly tactic.
Yes Sir it was a costly tactic but it work out very well , it miss guided the location of the Carriers , prof of it , the attack on may 30 went to the south west side of the ring - And there you have those 20 to 30 miles of distance between what was thought and were the carriers actually were -
Regards Enrique