Most people would not have thought that Britain would take action in Tierra del Fuego first. Britain had clearly said before that it would not occupy Argentine territory.
Alan Wilson has something to say on this point. It was British public opinion that said so. Is it true that the war between countries is decided by public opinion? Then what else does the General Staff do?
Giving command and decision-making power to the top commander of the navy will be conducive to their growth. Victory is naturally the best. What if it fails? The UK may fail, but it will never lose to Argentina. In the worst case, it will temporarily retreat to regroup.
, but it is absolutely impossible to just maintain a fleet if the Argentine Navy suffers a loss.
It has already started a war with Argentina. Naturally, Britain has no reason to back down. The task force came from the Pacific and is further away than the main fleet in the Atlantic. It must find an island for repairs. Tierra del Fuego must be captured. Who can
You can't stay on the boat for a long time.
If you have to worry about international public opinion even if you attack Tierra del Fuego, then why do you want to create such a big scene? It is better to arrange it according to the Falklands War in your memory from the beginning.
At about four o'clock in the afternoon, a British helicopter appeared over Tierra del Fuego. Obviously, this plane was not there to watch the fun. If the British army planned to watch the fun, it was to prepare for the next battle, not to use it.
A reconnaissance helicopter with only passive detection capabilities.
This reconnaissance aircraft is to detect the reality of Tierra del Fuego and prepare for the next landing. Obviously this reconnaissance was successful. Tierra del Fuego, like the Falkland Islands, is a sparsely populated island due to climate problems.
There is no difficulty for the British task force equipped with landing craft.
After this reconnaissance, the sky has obviously darkened. Landing under such conditions is very dangerous and should be avoided under normal circumstances. However, loyal Nepalese mercenaries must show their loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen and the landing operation will go as scheduled.
Anyway, the Argentine defenders didn't notice it. The mercenaries need to be careful not to sit still and get flooded.
To be honest, everything went smoothly this time. The Argentine navy was blocked by the British nuclear submarine blockade and was unable to move forward. It turned into a fleet. The landing force successively captured islands with few people on them. These islands are not the defense of the Argentines.
The point is, if people are stationed on slightly larger islands, Argentina's military power will be greatly diluted.
The population density of the Argentinian part of Tierra del Fuego was less than one person per square kilometer. The Argentine garrison on the island was better than nothing against the landing force, so it was natural for the British to come in.
From this point of view, Argentina is obviously still in the military understanding of the World War II era and does not understand its opponents in every sense.
While progress is being made in Tierra del Fuego, preparations for the counterattack on the Falkland Islands are also in progress. Since the connection between the Argentine Navy and the Falkland Islands has been cut off, seizing the Falkland Islands is a critical step for the British Expeditionary Force.
All that remains is the question of method.
While Ushuaia, the capital of Tierra del Fuego, was surrounded by Nepalese soldiers, the landing operations on the Falkland Islands had also begun. Late at night, a British landing team composed of three commando battalions rowed rubber boats and landed quickly.
beach.
At the same time, two paratrooper battalions carried by helicopters also landed quietly behind enemy lines in the night sky. The entire landing encountered almost no trouble. Fifty Argentine soldiers fled in panic after hearing the gunshots.
As for the main force of the Argentine garrison, they naturally have to deal with other problems. The Vulcan strategic bomber squadron that has appeared at the South Georgia Island Airport has begun bombing the Falkland Islands.
At night, the bombers had carried out devastating bombings on the Argentinian camp that was being scouted during the day. However, it was night after all, and because we were not familiar with the place, it was hard to say what the effect would be. However, the flames soaring into the sky were very conspicuous in the night. I believe the losses should not be huge.
Small.
The Argentine garrison defending the island responded with anti-aircraft guns, which had no effect on the Vulcan strategic bombers. The roaring anti-aircraft guns were more like venting the indomitable will of the Argentines.
Even this kind of unyielding will is questionable. If the Argentine defenders had already known that the British troops had successfully landed from other landing points, they might not feel so good about themselves.
But even so, the morale of the defenders facing the bombing was low. They didn't know that the last batch of two strategic bombers were coming towards them with the latest cloud bombs, preparing to use Argentina's
My fellow countrymen, let’s test the power of cloud explosive bombs that have not yet been tested in war.
The danger is coming, but the defenders still don't know it. During the previous bombing, very few radars have been destroyed. This is not due to the anti-radiation missiles. It is purely because the Argentine defenders set up so many radars after landing on the island.
The station was not hidden yet and had already been taken down in a previous air raid.
However, technological progress will inevitably affect tactics, or even completely change tactics. More importantly, for the party that has mastered the technological advantage, if the existing tactics are still effective, there will be no rush to seek new tactics, especially
In actual combat, mature tactics are definitely more popular with commanders, and commanders will adopt new tactics only when they have no choice.
This phenomenon is very common and not uncommon from ancient times to the present.
For example, after the emergence of machine guns, the end of the cavalry came. However, during the First World War, both warring parties used large-scale cavalry. After the emergence of tanks, trench warfare became history, but before the Second World War,
There are still many countries that rely on solid strategic defense lines for their security.
After aviation dominated the battlefield, ground forces became a secondary combat force. However, throughout the Cold War, the NATO group and the Warsaw Pact group retained large-scale ground forces, and devoted a lot of effort and financial resources to this end.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! If the opponent is Argentina, Vulcan bombers carrying out a strategic bombing similar to that in World War II is not an outdated tactic. On the contrary, it is a tactic that maximizes advantages, especially against
This is especially true for the Argentine island defense forces that have lost their support.
The United Kingdom did not tell Argentina not to deploy anti-aircraft missile sites. Argentina itself did not take it seriously. Now being bombed by Vulcan bombers is completely a self-selection of the second strongest Latin American country. No one else can blame it.
Two Vulcan bombers with important missions passed through the anti-aircraft artillery interception positions, which could not be said to be completely absent, but almost none, and delivered the cloudburst bombs they carried to the Argentine defenders. In terms of electronics, the British could not be called
Lagging behind, on the contrary, technological exchanges with the United States have been ongoing.
The world's first laser-guided bomb was a product of the U.S. "Paveway" program and was born during the Vietnam War.
Laser technology was a very advanced technology at the time. It had high light color purity and frequency purity, small projection divergence and high brightness. The weapons used by the United States in Vietnam were never a secret to the United Kingdom.
, there are still a group of high-level South Vietnamese living in Malaya.
The world in 1982 was technologically more mature than it was more than a decade ago, and the Argentine defenders who were about to eat the bomb were far less professional than their North Vietnamese counterparts and had the technical support from the Soviet Union.
The power of the dropped cloud bomb can make up for the lack of accuracy, not to mention that it is a precision-guided weapon that accurately hits the target. If it is broad daylight and the sky is clear, the position that is hit will inevitably be
The tragic scenes will bring great shock to people.
The explosion of the cloud bomb instantly drained the air in the area, turning the defenders into headless flies looking for the right to breathe. If this scene happened during the day, it would be a huge blow to morale.
But would it happen at night? It was also a huge blow. The morale of the Argentine defenders was not high to begin with, and their courage was gone like the air burned dry by cloudburst bombs.
The British troops who landed in Port San Carlos did not know the situation here. After landing, the landing troops who completed the assembly immediately headed towards Darwin Port. Although the Falkland Islands are not huge islands, they are not as expected.
The British troops were so small that the landing British troops had no idea what happened to the main Argentine troops in Darwin Port.
When these Marines with heroic dreams arrived here, the night had passed, and the scene in front of them made the Marine Corps officers and soldiers feel that it was better to have a dark night.
The Argentine soldier who died of being unable to breathe even made British officers and soldiers whisper with strange faces, "Did the Air Force use poison gas bombs? Why are they even using such weapons?"
"Don't make random guesses about why the Royal Air Force would use that kind of thing." A middle-aged major stopped his subordinates sternly and made an unfounded comment about the scene in front of him, "It's a powerful bomb. People will die in war. How can you lie down?"
Are you able to accept that we are here?"
In fact, although the major spoke with confidence, he still had doubts in his heart, but he could not express his doubts. Completing the mission was his first priority.
No matter how powerful the cloud bomb was, it was impossible to wipe out all the defenders. Fortunately, the effect was still very obvious. Although sporadic exchanges of fire occurred, after persuasion promising to protect their lives, only a few survived.
The Argentine soldiers chose those who understand current affairs as heroes, raised their hands high, and ended their mission with a clear conscience.
Taking advantage of their victory, the British army marched towards Port Stanley, the capital city. The Afghan army stationed outside the port fired a few shots and then fled back into the port. The British army easily occupied the commanding heights of the port. From a commanding position, the more than 10,000 Afghan soldiers in Stanley City had become a turtle in a jar.
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At this point, Britain can fully declare that it has regained control of the Falkland Islands. What is lacking is the largest defenders, like the two battalions who were buried under the cloud bombs in Darwin Port, who bravely persevered to the end, or still