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Guy Alcala twisted the electrons to say:
One bomb from the Vulcan. Well it's pretty much typical (IMHO) of Evan Brennan to make much of the solitary bomb hit from the (3?) Vulcan raids - the reasons for which have been well covered in in smn before - however it did occur to me that it's curious that he regards the Vulcan raids as ineffective, yet believes that Argentina held its Mirages back for air-defence of the mainland. (Where they worried about ineffective raids on Argentina perhaps? :-) [Guy: Obviously, risks worth taking in landing on a rough runway during the war wouldn't be taken afterwards. One of the Argentine C-130s almost crashed on takeoff during the war when a main gear wheel hit the corner of the roughly-repaired Vulcan crater]. I think another possible factor is the differing fuel loads for a C-130 doing Stanley - Argentina, as opposed to Stanley - Wideawake ... -- These opinions might not even be mine ... Let alone connected with my employer ... |
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