John Francis wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 07:56:25PM +0100, Cotty wrote: >> On 16/4/08, Christian, discombobulated, unleashed: >> >>> Those things bombed the Falklands while I was living in Argentina. >> Interestingly, and aside from carrying the British nuclear deterrent >> during the cold war, that was the only action a Vulcan ever saw. > > That was, for a while, the longest non-stop flight on a service mission; > a record now held by the B2 bomber (set during the Gulf War). I believe > the Vulcan had to be refuelled five times during the flight. > >
From wiki: "The first raid cut the runway at Stanley with a single bomb hit (from the 21 bombs dropped, a maximum of two had any chance of hitting the runway because it had been decided to attack from an angle for a greater chance of success). The second raid failed to arm the bomb load before release, so no damage was done. The third raid missed the runway completely and did a small amount of collateral damage around the runway, blowing up a jeep and causing one or two casualties. After this, there were three raids using Shrike missiles. The first fired missiles but the Argentine radar operators turned off their radars when they detected missile release and no damage was done. The second aborted on the return journey and landed in Brazil, while still carrying live munitions. The third destroyed an anti-aircraft radar." I'd call that maybe little success for such a huge undertaking... It IS a cool airplane though and featured in the 007 flick "Thunderball" Christian -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
