#1533101 - 09/27/04 08:31 PM
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Cant wait to get my hands at Mirage/Dagger controls ! Im deeply proud about the Brazilians and Latin Americans doing this most promissing jet sim around !
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#1533102 - 09/28/04 10:34 PM
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Re the Sea Harrier-
One thing you all might want to think about is that the British forces also used the GR.1 Harrier variant in the Falklands conflict. The Atlantic Conveyor offloaded several before it was sunk. As I recall, the GR.1 and the American AV-8A are very similar.
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#1533107 - 10/04/04 12:26 AM
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I know they used RAF Harriers b/c there weren't enough Sea Harriers to go round. You're probably right re the type, tho.
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#1533108 - 10/07/04 10:56 AM
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Yeah I remember that - remember we got pretty close to running out of spares and replacements after Atlantic Conveyor got sunk as well - there is a good account of the air war on the link below as well as a link to a British squadron leader's diary of the conflict http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/index.html
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#1533110 - 10/09/04 03:51 PM
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I'll enjoy flying them both. I have Hastings & Jenkins's book on the war, good read. Type 42 is still one of my favorite DDs.
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#1533113 - 10/13/04 08:50 PM
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Colonel, the Harriers did try some strikes over BAM Malvinas (argie base at Port Stanley.) But AAA prouved to be quite heavy, so they did not continue to attack it. Besides some counter inteligence was formed by the Argies, painting a crater over the runway thus making Biritsh inteligence thint that the runwaty was not operational, when it actually wa till the end of the war. I don´t think there was any CAS since Argentina did not have any AFV in the islands, and infantery was scatered all over the place with no concentration visible from the air. And we had no arty, onlly two 155mm Howitzers. Thus the fleet pounded the argenitnian positions almos every day. In fact those shipd where the primary targets for the Airforces A-4´s, since we had an aproximate position. Argentinas Airforce attaked the ships on Bombardment and the radar piquets, since they wehre teh onlly ones we could fix on our radar based at the islands. We wouldalso determine the position of teh carriers based on where the Harriers apeared and desapeared .
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