Found a small Falklands gallery...

[Ezra Coli]

Hope this mega-long URL works...
http://www.fototime.com/ftweb/bin/ft.dll/pictures?userid={DB329DA3-317F-453E-BAEE-D4B69D57BC58}&inv=9C4D90CB2E452BF&userid={DB329DA3-317F-453E-BAEE-D4B69D57BC58}&AlbumId={3AC4A331-CB60-4034-9CE6-6E606C63422E}&inv=9C4D90CB2E452BF&GroupId={209AE5E4-AABA-4D77-818F-2BCD7471C387}

[PhillyMobster]

It works. Nice pics. ;)

[snniper77]

excelent pictures!!!


some of them i ve never seen!!! :D

lucky for us we sunk the Atlantic Conveyor (the first three pics, the ship loaded with harriers, chinooks, etc)

[scoone]

outstanding pics

[Durandal]

I have not seen most of these before. Very cool.

[RGRBOX]

Those are some great pics... by the way, has anyone seen the new SAS Series on BBC... takes the sdame SAS guy who did the Are you tough enough series and now he an the first SAS Soldier on the Iranian Embasy Balcony who blew open the window are doing this... The first part showd tactics and stuff. not bad..

[ash933]

lucky for us we sunk the Atlantic Conveyor (the first three pics, the ship loaded with harriers, chinooks, etc)

You should probably keep politics out of this thread.

[Fenna]

Good find

[Digital Marine]

Those are some great pics... by the way, has anyone seen the new SAS Series on BBC... takes the sdame SAS guy who did the Are you tough enough series and now he an the first SAS Soldier on the Iranian Embasy Balcony who blew open the window are doing this... The first part showd tactics and stuff. not bad..


When is this on the air?

[GAFES]

Rare photos. Thanks

[RGRBOX]

excelent pictures!!!


some of them i ve never seen!!! :D

lucky for us we sunk the Atlantic Conveyor (the first three pics, the ship loaded with harriers, chinooks, etc)

What's this US ****... were you there...

[snniper77]

excelent pictures!!!


some of them i ve never seen!!! :D

lucky for us we sunk the Atlantic Conveyor (the first three pics, the ship loaded with harriers, chinooks, etc)

What's this US ****... were you there...

actually.... i wasnt even born then... i m 1983 class and the war took place in 1982 in case u didnt know

still... i consider it lucky for US (coz i m argentinian)


snniper77 wrote:
lucky for us we sunk the Atlantic Conveyor (the first three pics, the ship loaded with harriers, chinooks, etc)


You should probably keep politics out of this thread.

there s no politics in my comment, it s just a fact we were lucky enough to sink that ship full of supplies

[Name Taken]

Lucky for us we sunk the Belgrano, not that it was much sport - Argentinians are about as useful as a chocolate teapot when it comes to war.

ZING! :roll:

[snniper77]

Lucky for us we sunk the Belgrano, not that it was much sport - Argentinians are about as useful as a chocolate teapot when it comes to war.

ZING! :roll:

u re probably right... that s why we kicked the brits twice out of buenos aires (we still have some flags in our museums, some RM flags... really nice)

and about the belgrano... i guess u were lucky, a WWII cruiser d have smashed the royal navy :bash: :bash: :bash:

[catalyst]

well dont send it to do your battles if it will get its ass kicked!

[speckfire]

Nice pics ..but they way that they took the pics ..it seems that the Gurkhas did all the fighting :lol:

[demotivater]

Politics aside, nice pics, really good quality.

I've said it before in these threads - there's a great video on this - can't find it now though - Battle For The Falklands. Saw it years and years ago on VHS, some really good footage if you can find it.

[RGRBOX]

The Belgrano has gone down in history as the first shipp destroyed by a neucliar powerd sub....

[Fenna]

excelent pictures!!!


some of them i ve never seen!!! :D

lucky for us we sunk the Atlantic Conveyor (the first three pics, the ship loaded with harriers, chinooks, etc)

What's this US ****... were you there...

actually.... i wasnt even born then... i m 1983 class and the war took place in 1982 in case u didnt know

still... i consider it lucky for US (coz i m argentinian)


snniper77 wrote:
lucky for us we sunk the Atlantic Conveyor (the first three pics, the ship loaded with harriers, chinooks, etc)


You should probably keep politics out of this thread.

there s no politics in my comment, it s just a fact we were lucky enough to sink that ship full of supplies

Actually why was it lucky to sink Atlantic Conveyor, considering you lost anyway?

If Argentina had won the conflict then I would say it was lucky that this ship was sunk

[DeltaWhisky58]

Lucky for us we sunk the Belgrano, not that it was much sport - Argentinians are about as useful as a chocolate teapot when it comes to war.

ZING! :roll:

u re probably right... that s why we kicked the brits twice out of buenos aires (we still have some flags in our museums, some RM flags... really nice)

and about the belgrano... i guess u were lucky, a WWII cruiser d have smashed the royal navy :bash: :bash: :bash:

Well, at least by admitting your age it explains why you behave like a kid! The only thing Argentina achieved by sinking the Atlantic Conveyor as slowing British forces down a bit - they still whipped Argentina's ass. As for RM Flag(s) - maybe the one from Moody Brook barracks - after all you've got to have some small consolation prize from a place you only managed to hold for 74 days!

As for the Belgrano, there was no way it would ever have got close enough to the Royal Navy to "smash it" - we had at least two SSNs in the area, one of which sank her! What of your navy...........not a lot, once the Belgrano was sunk, the rest ran away and hid in port. Shame they didn't have the balls of the Argie naval pilots.

One final point - the Atlantic Conveyor was a mistake, not only did the naval Super Etendard pilot think he had launched his AM39 at one of our carriers, he had the cheek to paint it on his aircraft as a "kill" where it remains to this day - so much for Argie intelligence!

BTW - Sniper is spelled with one "N".

[Geezah]

"Don't Cry for me Argentina" , I remember the radio stations couldn't/didn't play this while we were cleaning up the Falklands(FYI not the Islas Malvinas), always make me smile when I think about it.

[Werewolf01]

Lucky for us we sunk the Belgrano, not that it was much sport - Argentinians are about as useful as a chocolate teapot when it comes to war.

ZING! :roll:


Chocolate Teapot. I have to add that to the lexicon next to soup sandwich!

:lol:

[OldRecon]

Nice pics ..but they way that they took the pics ..it seems that the Gurkhas did all the fighting :lol:
Well there's a group photo of victorious paras in there as well.
And some guys belonging to the Guards also (Scots guards?).
And Sir Glahad on fire also.

[IMARA]

"Don't Cry for me Argentina" , I remember the radio stations couldn't/didn't play this while we were cleaning up the Falklands(FYI not the Islas Malvinas), always make me smile when I think about it.

If I were you I wouldn´t smile. Aproximately 1000 families destroyed, 1000 women without their husbunds, lots of children without their fathers. And you smile?

[Werewolf01]

"Don't Cry for me Argentina" , I remember the radio stations couldn't/didn't play this while we were cleaning up the Falklands(FYI not the Islas Malvinas), always make me smile when I think about it.

If I were you I wouldn´t smile. Aproximately 1000 families destroyed, 1000 women without their husbunds, lots of children without their fathers. And you smile?

In all fairness, and being a neutral party, the Argentine Govt started the war by invading, so.....

[Geezah]

"Don't Cry for me Argentina" , I remember the radio stations couldn't/didn't play this while we were cleaning up the Falklands(FYI not the Islas Malvinas), always make me smile when I think about it.

If I were you I wouldn´t smile. Aproximately 1000 families destroyed, 1000 women without their husbunds, lots of children without their fathers. And you smile?

I don't remember it being the British that decided to start a fight, we reacted to your countries action!

[DeltaWhisky58]

"Don't Cry for me Argentina" , I remember the radio stations couldn't/didn't play this while we were cleaning up the Falklands(FYI not the Islas Malvinas), always make me smile when I think about it.

If I were you I wouldn´t smile. Aproximately 1000 families destroyed, 1000 women without their husbunds, lots of children without their fathers. And you smile?

I really can't believe that I'm reading this..............

The invasion of The Falkland Islands on 2nd April 1982 was an act of unprovoked agression by Argentina and you have the nerve to make such a comment. If it hadn't been for your corrupt government invading The Falklands to cover up their own mis-government of their own country none of those men would have died.

IMARA should be ashamed of his ignorant and ill-founded comments.

[IMARA]

I really can't believe that I'm reading this..............

The invasion of The Falkland Islands on 2nd April 1982 was an act of unprovoked agression by Argentina and you have the nerve to make such a comment. If it hadn't been for your corrupt government invading The Falklands to cover up their own mis-government of their own country none of those men would have died.

IMARA should be ashamed of his ignorant and ill-founded comments.

you are talking ****, I know we were the invaders (this oportunity). But I´m not talking about the reasons of war, that doesn´t matter. What matters is that tehre was a war in wich about 1000 men were killed; 1000 soldiers did not return to their homes. You he can´t smile when you think in a war. People died in Falklands, argies and english. So your answer has nothing to do

[DeltaWhisky58]

I really can't believe that I'm reading this..............

The invasion of The Falkland Islands on 2nd April 1982 was an act of unprovoked agression by Argentina and you have the nerve to make such a comment. If it hadn't been for your corrupt government invading The Falklands to cover up their own mis-government of their own country none of those men would have died.

IMARA should be ashamed of his ignorant and ill-founded comments.

you are talking ****, I know we were the invaders (this oportunity). But I´m not talking about the reasons of war, that doesn´t matter. What matters is that tehre was a war in wich about 1000 men were killed; 1000 soldiers did not return to their homes. You he can´t smile when you think in a war. People died in Falklands, argies and english. So your answer has nothing to do

The people who died in the Falklands conflict - war was never declared - were utterly and totally the responsibility of the Argentine Junta of 1982. The reasons for the conflict do and will matter - had it not been for the unbridled agression and greed of Argentina attempting to take over a group of islands which had belonged to Brtain for over 150 years to which Argentina maintains a pathetic and unrecongnised claim, this conflict would not have resulted in such loss of life.

You are clearly a result of the Argentine proaganda machine which still teaches its chilren lies about why Argentina has a claim to the Falkland Islands. It is a well documented fact that many Argentine soldiers in the invasion force expected to be liberating a repressed Hispanic population supposedly held prisoner by their British masters when in fact they were 99.9%+ British, and totally free and happy with their British goverment.

Check your facts - not the rubbish you have been tought at school or by your former government - look at sources in the free public domain before you spout any more biased rubbish that you clearly haven't researched properly.

[IMARA]

The people who died in the Falklands conflict - war was never declared - were utterly and totally the responsibility of the Argentine Junta of 1982. The reasons for the conflict do and will matter - had it not been for the unbridled agression and greed of Argentina attempting to take over a group of islands which had belonged to Brtain for over 150 years to which Argentina maintains a pathetic and unrecongnised claim, this conflict would not have resulted in such loss of life.

You are clearly a result of the Argentine proaganda machine which still teaches its chilren lies about why Argentina has a claim to the Falkland Islands. It is a well documented fact that many Argentine soldiers in the invasion force expected to be liberating a repressed Hispanic population supposedly held prisoner by their British masters when in fact they were 99.9%+ British, and totally free and happy with their British goverment.

Check your facts - not the rubbish you have been tought at school or by your former government - look at sources in the free public domain before you spout any more biased rubbish that you clearly haven't researched properly.

Man, you are an ashole who continues speaking about reasons and all that WHEN I HAVE ALREADY TOLD YOU THAT WE WERE THE INVADERS, so try to be a bit more intelligent when you argue. I´m not saying that the war was your fault, I just said that one can´t smile, or laugh or be happy of a war, it´s common sense. You must be a little ashole who can´t understand that in war, there are no real winners.


It is a well documented fact that many Argentine soldiers in the invasion force expected to be liberating a repressed Hispanic population supposedly held prisoner by their British masters when in fact they were 99.9%+ British, and totally free and happy with their British goverment.
It´s one of the most stupid things I´ve ever heard, the argies knew they were not liberating anyone, you were the ones who didn´t even know were Falklands were in the map.

Anyway, continue smiling at war stupid, I hope some day you go to one, were that smile would be inmediately erreased from your ****ing face

[Geezah]

The people who died in the Falklands conflict - war was never declared - were utterly and totally the responsibility of the Argentine Junta of 1982. The reasons for the conflict do and will matter - had it not been for the unbridled agression and greed of Argentina attempting to take over a group of islands which had belonged to Brtain for over 150 years to which Argentina maintains a pathetic and unrecongnised claim, this conflict would not have resulted in such loss of life.

You are clearly a result of the Argentine proaganda machine which still teaches its chilren lies about why Argentina has a claim to the Falkland Islands. It is a well documented fact that many Argentine soldiers in the invasion force expected to be liberating a repressed Hispanic population supposedly held prisoner by their British masters when in fact they were 99.9%+ British, and totally free and happy with their British goverment.

Check your facts - not the rubbish you have been tought at school or by your former government - look at sources in the free public domain before you spout any more biased rubbish that you clearly haven't researched properly.

Man, you are an ashole who continues speaking about reasons and all that WHEN I HAVE ALREADY TOLD YOU THAT WE WERE THE INVADERS, so try to be a bit more intelligent when you argue. I´m not saying that the war was your fault, I just said that one can´t smile, or laugh or be happy of a war, it´s common sense. You must be a little ashole who can´t understand that in war, there are no real winners.


It is a well documented fact that many Argentine soldiers in the invasion force expected to be liberating a repressed Hispanic population supposedly held prisoner by their British masters when in fact they were 99.9%+ British, and totally free and happy with their British goverment.
It´s one of the most stupid things I´ve ever heard, the argies knew they were not liberating anyone, you were the ones who didn´t even know were Falklands were in the map.

Anyway, continue smiling at war stupid, I hope some day you go to one, were that smile would be inmediately erreased from your f*** face


"Don't Cry for me Argentina" , I remember the radio stations couldn't/didn't play this while we were cleaning up the Falklands(FYI not the Islas Malvinas), always make me smile when I think about it.

Yeah it makes me smile, knowing that we were outnumbered and in a few cases outgunned but still we emerged the Victor.
I'm not happy about the British lives that were lost but as I stated above, we reacted to Argentines action, and just an FYI, one of my Great Uncles was over there fighting the invaders!

[RGRBOX]

Let's just be happy that he can have e-amil and web access... if the govn't that was around during the war was still in, then this would all be different...

[Geezah]

IMARA , your comments ooze ignorance, you would sound just as daft if you told me that we should not have celebrated VE day and the fact we had destroyed the Nazis.

[DeltaWhisky58]

"Don't Cry for me Argentina" , I remember the radio stations couldn't/didn't play this while we were cleaning up the Falklands(FYI not the Islas Malvinas), always make me smile when I think about it.

Personally I prefer the 42 Commando version of the Cliff Richard hit "Summer Holiday" which was something along the lines of "We're all going on a Malvinas holiday, we're all going to................" politeness forbids me printing any more, but you get the gist.

It's amazing how the publication of a few pictures always brings some asshole out of the woodwork claiming he knows more than the rest of the world.

I wonder how old IMARA was in 1982 - I was actually just out of the RAF - was he out of short trousers or is he just another of this board's multitude of big-mouthed juvelile wannabes?

[Geezah]

I was 12 at the time, I remember going up to Mold in Wales to stay with my Grandmother for a half term, for some reason I was scared my dad was going to be drafted :oops:

[DeltaWhisky58]

I had just left the RAF, a number of school friends went south, one an RN Sea King pilot, another an RM officer, and a friend from the RAF College was killed in a Chinook accident just shortly after the hostilities ended.

I will never forget the night it was announced that HMS Sheffield had been sunk - total shock - it couldn't happen to us...........but of course it did. There is no doubt that some of the Argentine forces - especially its attack pilots - were incredibly brave, fighting for something that they misguidedly believed in, but loking at the entire conflict in retrospect, the whole invasion/occupation was so poorly planned and executed.

In many ways it was a close run thing, largely owing to the long lines of re-supply and communication, but we ousted the Argies from our territory only 300-350 miles from the Argentine coast when we were over 8,000 miles from ours.

I can fully understand the Argentine reasons for the invasion, but what I can not and will not accept is ridiculous comments like those from a certain quarter on this thread.

It is all over, the Falklands remain British, its population (British) want to remain under British government. It is time that Argentina renounce its claim which is not supported by anything except Papal Bulls issued to the Spanish in the 16th/17th centuries and not to Argentina in the first place. Even the Spanish name of Islas Malvinas refers to the short French occupation of the Islands by people from St Malo in Brittany - Les Malouines. The United States briefly occupied the islands, but I haven't seen the Stars and Stripes, French Tricolour or Spanish flag flying over the Falkland Islands, and the Argentine flag didn't stay for long.

God Save The Queen!

[fremen]

well dont send it to do your battles if it will get its ass kicked!

As far as I know, the Belgrano was not in the battle zone (total exclusion zone declared by the British) when she was torpedoed. What's more, she was a WWII cruiser full of naval cadets. Not a heroic effort to sink such a ship if you ask me. On the other hand Argentine pilots demonstrated a lot of skill and bravery by sinking several British warships using twenty year old planes many times armed only with canon and gravity bombs that many times didn't even explode (lucky bastards).
Also, saying that the Argentines can't fight denotes a deep ignorance of history, for in the Argentines defeated two British attempts in the past at capturing Buenos Aires. Probably the reason why the Argentines kept their best troops on the mainland and the British avoided landing there.

[Geezah]

God Save The Queen!

X2 on that, I might be allot of things, but I'm a hardcore Royalist ;)

[ash933]

I don't like getting into debates like this, but some people in this thread are blatent fact starved idiots.

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

http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/index.html



As far as I know, the Belgrano was not in the battle zone (total exclusion zone declared by the British) when she was torpedoed. What's more, she was a WWII cruiser full of naval cadets. Not a heroic effort to sink such a ship if you ask me.
Yeah, so? What if it had found its way into the exclusion zone and opened fire on Royal Navy ships?



On the other hand Argentine pilots demonstrated a lot of skill and bravery by sinking several British warships using twenty year old planes many times armed only with canon and gravity bombs that many times didn't even explode (lucky bastards).
Exocet missiles.



Also, saying that the Argentines can't fight denotes a deep ignorance of history, for in the Argentines defeated two British attempts in the past at capturing Buenos Aires. Probably the reason why the Argentines kept their best troops on the mainland and the British avoided landing there.
No. Argentina's Government invaded and occupied British sovereign territory, so don't you think it's more than a coincidence that the task force just happened to mount an operation on said territory and reclaim it?

[fremen]

God Save The Queen!

X2 on that, I might be allot of things, but I'm a hardcore Royalist ;)

God save your queen then. With that freaky family she's got, she certainly needs it! rofl

Honestly, why don't you do away with your monarchy and come into the modern era or the least into the 20th century? It would save you a lot of money.

[fremen]

I don't like getting into debates like this, but some people in this thread are blatent fact starved idiots.

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

http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/index.html



As far as I know, the Belgrano was not in the battle zone (total exclusion zone declared by the British) when she was torpedoed. What's more, she was a WWII cruiser full of naval cadets. Not a heroic effort to sink such a ship if you ask me.
Yeah, so? What if it had found its way into the exclusion zone and opened fire on Royal Navy ships?



On the other hand Argentine pilots demonstrated a lot of skill and bravery by sinking several British warships using twenty year old planes many times armed only with canon and gravity bombs that many times didn't even explode (lucky bastards).
Exocet missiles.



Also, saying that the Argentines can't fight denotes a deep ignorance of history, for in the Argentines defeated two British attempts in the past at capturing Buenos Aires. Probably the reason why the Argentines kept their best troops on the mainland and the British avoided landing there.
No. Argentina's Government invaded and occupied British sovereign territory, so don't you think it's more than a coincidence that the task force just happened to mount an operation on said territory and reclaim it?

Yes, they did use exocet missiles too. Lucky for the british that they only had a handfull. Half a dozen more and it would have been close, very close. However several british ships were hit and a few sunk with gravity bombs (twenty tear-old gravity bombs). The Argentine Skyhawks used gravity bombs, not exocets.

[gaz]

On the other hand Argentine pilots demonstrated a lot of skill and bravery by sinking several British warships using twenty year old planes many times armed only with canon and gravity bombs that many times didn't even explode (lucky bastards).
Exocet missiles.


I'm not sure what you mean when you say that, you are of course correct, the Argentines used Exocets but as Fremen said, they also used bombs, and probably a great deal more bombs than exocets.

Fremen, I agree with you, the Argentine pilots who went on those low level bombing runs had balls of steel.

[fremen]

To add to the last post, if the Argentines would have put their best troops on the islands, I would have hit their homeland. Sounds logical? Give me my islands and I'll give you back your capital?

[fremen]

On the other hand Argentine pilots demonstrated a lot of skill and bravery by sinking several British warships using twenty year old planes many times armed only with canon and gravity bombs that many times didn't even explode (lucky bastards).
Exocet missiles.


I'm not sure what you mean when you say that, you are of course correct, the Argentines used Exocets but as Fremen said, they also used bombs, and probably a great deal more bombs than exocets.

Fremen, I agree with you, the Argentine pilots who went on those low level bombing runs had balls of steel.

I remember seeing on TV as a british warship came into port with an un-exploded bomb sticking out of its side. I also recall reading that sometimes Argentine C-130 tankers would meet returning skyhawks whose fuel tanks wore full of holes and fly back to their airbases connected to them so they would run out of fuel. Definitely Argentine pilots had balls! I even remember a C-130 making a bombing run at a british position (they rolled the bomb out of the ramp).

[Polynikes]

excelent pictures!!!


some of them i ve never seen!!! :D

lucky for us we sunk the Atlantic Conveyor (the first three pics, the ship loaded with harriers, chinooks, etc)

According to the press releases at the time, you also sunk 27 aircraft cariers too....

[Polynikes]

IMARA

If I were you I wouldn´t smile. Aproximately 1000 families destroyed, 1000 women without their husbunds, lots of children without their fathers. And you smile?

So forces of the British government destroyed 1,000 Argentine families huh?

How many families were destroyed by forces of the Argentine government in their long running "dirty war"?

[fremen]

IMARA

If I were you I wouldn´t smile. Aproximately 1000 families destroyed, 1000 women without their husbunds, lots of children without their fathers. And you smile?

So forces of the British government destroyed 1,000 Argentine families huh?

How many families were destroyed by forces of the Argentine government in their long running "dirty war"?

I wouldn't be opening my big mouth Polynikes. U.S. history is filled with many dark examples of why you should follow my advice. Dating back from slavery and up to the many innocent Iraqis who have died as a result of "accidents" or simply considered unavoidable "collateral" damage (by some estimates up to 100,000) in war. Besides, since Argentina's "dirty war" was considered part of the Cold War, the Argentine military conducted it with the blessing of the U.S.

[Ezra Coli]

Good grief people, are ALL threads completely useless on this site after the first four or five replies? Why does it always degrade into some childish pissing match where 'ours is better than yours' mentality makes people look like complete idiots? :bash:

[fremen]

Actually, I was trying for "yours is worse than theirs". Apparently I succeeded.

[DeltaWhisky58]

This thread has deteriorated for two reasons:

1. Because of the thread originally being hi-jacked by Imara with his ignorant, ill-informed and biased comments which were wholly inappropriate to the thread in the first place.

and....

2. Fremen's pathetic and totally pointless insults to the British Royal Family.

Ezra Coli comments on the degeneration of threads on this forum - hardly surprising considering the effects of posters like the two mentioned above. His original thread was good, albeit with photos which unfortunately are not new - the owner of the gallery has apparently poached many of them from a multitude of the rarer publications on the Falklands conflict - all of them have been published somewhere or other.

The subject of the Falkland Islands is one rather sensitive to the UK. Yes, we lost nearly 300 of our finest owing to the agression of Argentina, not a problem to that country as she had killed so many of her own. Not only that, but such a blatent, biased and ill-informed attack by Imara.

I rest my case.

[Geezah]

God Save The Queen!

X2 on that, I might be allot of things, but I'm a hardcore Royalist ;)

God save your queen then. With that freaky family she's got, she certainly needs it! rofl

Honestly, why don't you do away with your monarchy and come into the modern era or the least into the 20th century? It would save you a lot of money.

Wow........you're just as ignorant as IMARA, they're what makes Britain great, they've done their part and served their country!


Piloting a Sea King helicopter of 820 Naval Air Squadron, Prince Andrew was first to lift off survivors after the Atlantic Conveyor was hit by an exorcet missile during the Falkland's War


As a sub-lieutenant in 1982, Andrew flew on anti-submarine missions, casualty evacuations and acted as a decoy for Exocet missiles launched by Argentinean aircraft against British ships.

He returned to serve in the Falklands in 1985.

If you have no idea what the Royal family have done over the years, I would stop now before you are severly pwned!

[snniper77]

some really nice pics i have found

http://img88.echo.cx/img88/687/dagger9ae7dy.jpg

http://img88.echo.cx/img88/568/lucasnew8rs4ws.jpg


http://img88.echo.cx/img88/605/daggerbajitosobrebuquebritanic.jpg
have u found the dagger in this last picture?? if not....try again...

[snniper77]

http://img196.echo.cx/img196/9417/hmsbroadsword7xw3yv.jpg


HMS Broadsword salirs trying to shoot down an Argentine Dagger

[martinexsquaddie]

the invasion of bruneos aires was less than 2000 thousand men to take a country slightly unauthorised and happened before the napolonic war.
if the army that thought through spain had gone you'd probably all be speaking english and have an economy
rofl
isn't that the imf knocking comeing to reposses your computer :roll: rofl

[snniper77]

the invasion of bruneos aires was less than 2000 thousand men to take a country slightly unauthorised and happened before the napolonic war.
if the army that thought through spain had gone you'd probably all be speaking english and have an economy
rofl
isn't that the imf knocking comeing to reposses your computer :roll: rofl

just 2k men and all u want... but we still have the RM flags here, in Buenos Aires...

[DeltaWhisky58]

the invasion of bruneos aires was less than 2000 thousand men to take a country slightly unauthorised and happened before the napolonic war.
if the army that thought through spain had gone you'd probably all be speaking english and have an economy
rofl
isn't that the imf knocking comeing to reposses your computer :roll: rofl

just 2k men and all u want... but we still have the RM flags here, in Buenos Aires...

I think we have a few more Argentine war trophies than you have British ones - at the last count Britain had taken over ownership of about half of the weaponry owned by the Argentine Army on 1982, along with a sizeable portion of the Pucara and helicopter fleet - not to mention a large number of Argentine troops sent home with their tails between their legs.

If you want to really start an Argentina Vs. UK pissing contest I would advise against it, you guys really haven't got very much going for you in any way.

Remember - you can always show the pix of RN ships and your Daggers/A-4s, but think of how many left the mainland never to return - there are plenty of photos of smoking holes, explosions etc. where Argie aircraft used to be.

Frankly Mr Sn(n)iper77, you're getting into an argument you have no hope of winning, like you had no hope in '82, why not give up with dignity like General Menendez did rather than add to the 1,000 casualties - if he hadn't ignored orders things would have been much worse.

Oh, BTW - I think the Royal Marines can afford to buy a few flags - you guys haven't been able to replace most of the kit you lost in '82 - I think we have quite a few blue and white flags going cheap! ;)

God save the Queen!