 Название: Falklands: Voyage to War: The true story of one young naval officer's journey towards war
Автор: James Barrington
Издательство: Canelo
Год: 2018
Страниц: 378
Язык: английский
Формат: epub, rtf, pdf (conv)
Размер: 10.1 MB
In the spring of 1982, the government of Argentina commenced a series of military operations against a handful of isolated British territories in the South Atlantic: South Georgia and the Falkland Islands. In response, the British government ordered its military leaders to assemble a task force of ships, aircraft and men to conduct an operation to counter this illegal invasion and reclaim the territories for the British Crown, under the code name OPERATION CORPORATE. The two aircraft carriers HMS Hermes and HMS Invincible, both carrying Sea Harrier fighter jets, were the principal capital ships, and the Harriers the main offensive weapon, of the fleet.
It was clear from the first that a third aircraft carrier would be absolutely essential to ensure the success of the mission and to maintain air superiority in the South Atlantic. At the time, the second CVS-class carrier, to be named HMS Illustrious, was approaching completion in the Swan Hunter shipyard in Newcastle, and orders were issued to complete the building work as quickly as possible, to rush through the sea and acceptance trials and the workup phase, in order to get the vessel down to the South Atlantic in the shortest possible time.
This is the story of that ship, and that frantic six-month period, as viewed from the perspective of the Air Staff Officer/Senior Air Traffic Control Officer on board.
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