Falklands War: Bomber Alley

[BreakingBad]

Below is a video of the bomber alley battle fought between the British Navy and the Argentine Air Force.

At about time 0:42 seconds, one of the airplanes just explodes.

Does anyone know the make of the airplane and the likely cause of it's shoot down?  It's almost as if the plane runs into an invisible wall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsDodFQPeJ0

[gyrene81]

you didn't see the sam launched from the ship? went pretty fast...

[Shifty]

The majority of the aircraft I saw were A4 Skyhawks. I think one Mirage was captured on that film but it is hard to tell because of the quality. You might Google Royal Navy surface to air missle types of the Falklands War if you want info on those. Honestly I can't see what the missle you're refering to hit. It may have just detonated and not hit anything..

[gyrene81]

at 0:36 a missile is fired from a ship. the camera follows it, at 0:40 you can see the back end of the missile appear as a white spot as the camera follows it. at 0:42 it strikes the plane.

[BreakingBad]

at 0:36 a missile is fired from a ship. the camera follows it, at 0:40 you can see the back end of the missile appear as a white spot as the camera follows it. at 0:42 it strikes the plane.

I see it now.  We are looking at a missile in flight, I thought it was an airplane.  At 0:42 it strikes an unseen airplane.

[Sabre]

Watched a great documentary on the Vulcan raid on Port Stanley.  I always thought that would make a great movie!  Truly amazing and daring mission, the impact of which was far out of proportion to the damage actually done on the airfield they attacked. my RAF cousins.

[Bruv119]

Watched a great documentary on the Vulcan raid on Port Stanley.  I always thought that would make a great movie!  Truly amazing and daring mission, the impact of which was far out of proportion to the damage actually done on the airfield they attacked. my RAF cousins.

was at shoreham Sunday last to see her and they cancelled it due to internal fuel leaks.     

Out of 5 airshows it's been billed at, I've only seen it fly once.   She is pretty dam rare!!   or I'm just unlucky...

[bagrat]

 

[thrila]

The missile would have been a sea dart from a type 42

[icepac]

Had more of thier bombs exploded instead of passing right through the ships they hit, the war would have been a much larger entry in world history.

[Baggy]

Yeah, but they didn't and it hasn't!

The Argentines used Skyhawks, Mirage and Daggers (Israeli Mirage).

I saw the Vulcan at Manston this year, and very impressive it was!

[xbrit]

The missile would have been a sea dart from a type 42

What he said.

[pipz]

It could have been a Sea Cat missile as well. They were used on the older types of the time such as the Amazon and Leander class. I believe you can see a Leander in the film. If I recall correctly one Amazon type was sunk in that anchorage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Cat

[GScholz]

The missile would have been a sea dart from a type 42

Or perhaps the Sea Wolf from the two Type 22 frigates. They're credited with three A-4 kills.

[Rich46yo]

This was a mean, vicious little war and one with lasting repercussions to this day. Do correct me if Im wrong but Britain was going to retire both their light CVs and had no plans to build new ones at the time. So the Royal Navy was basically saved by the conflict and the eventual outcome of it will be  launched in a few years as the Queen Liz CVs.

It also, along with the Persian Gulf tanker war, brought home the message of the danger of ASMs. I cant remember the exact details but wasnt a troop convoy ship hit by one with a lot of casualties? Tho they were soundly defeated the Argie Air Forces were no push over.