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No..was it about Chile helping with radar and then ignoring our accidental incursion in their territory etc?
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Yes, it was the radar. Chilean radar showed when aircraft took off from airfields in Argentina. RAF Wing Commander somebody was in Chile. Using sat phones which the head of Delta force had offered to Mike Rose, the SAS chief, the info got to our ships fast enough for the Sea Harriers to be in the air at the right time. I've always wondered how, given their limitations of fuel/range/flying time, the Sea Harriers managed to be in so many air battles.
It's been said many times that if we'd lost one more ship we'd have lost the war. How many more ships would we have lost if the Sea Harriers hadn't been given this advantage? Three or four?
There are lots of other WTAF bits in the programme. It's densely packed with info.
nick_h.
Anyone see this? https://www.channel4.com/programmes/falklands-war-the-untold-story/on-demand/72469-001 Some of the British senior officers were as hopeless as the Russian army is today. No exaggeration to say that we would have lost if we hadn't had help from Pinochet.