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词条 British air services in the Falklands War
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  1. Units

     Army Air Corps  Royal Marines  Fleet Air Arm  Royal Air Force  Armament 

  2. Air Campaign

  3. Casualties and aircraft losses

  4. References

  5. External links

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This is a list of the units, aircraft and casualties of the British air services in the Falklands War. The numbers in bold are the number of aircraft used in the war, the numbers in brackets are the number of lost aircraft. For a list of air forces from Argentina, see Argentine air forces in the Falklands War.

Units

Army Air Corps

  • No. 656 Squadron Army Air Corps - (Gazelle AH.1, Scout AH.1) 6 (1), 6

Royal Marines

  • 3 CDO Brigade Air Squadron - (Gazelle AH.1, Scout AH.1) 9 (2), 6 (1)

Fleet Air Arm

SquadronAircraft[1]NumberLostNotes
737 NASWessex HAS.321HMS Antrim & HMS Glamorgan
800 NASSea Harrier FRS.1122HMS Hermes. RAF personnel attached.[2]
801 NASSea Harrier FRS.184HMS Invincible. RAF personnel attached.[3]
809 NASSea Harrier FRS.18HMS Hermes & Invincible
815 NASLynx HAS.2 and HAS.3143Type 42 destroyers, Type 21 and Type 22 frigates
820 NASSea King HAS.59HMS Invincible
824 NASSea King HAS.25RFA Fort Rosalie & Olmeda
825 NASSea King HAS.210Atlantic Causeway & RMS Queen Elizabeth 2
826 NASSea King HAS.5122HMS Hermes
829 NAS(Wasp HAS.1)9(HMS Endurance, HMS Bristol, Leander class & Type 12 frigates)
845 NASWessex HU.5152RFA Tidespring, Tidepool, Fort Austin & Port San Carlos
846 NASSea King HC.4153HMS Hermes, Fearless class, SS Canberra, Elk & Norland
847 NASWessex HU.524Atlantic Causeway, RFA Engadine & Port San Carlos
848 NASWessex HU.5156(HMS Endurance, RFA Olna, Atlantic Conveyor & Astronomer)

Royal Air Force

All four engined heavies operated from Wideawake Airfield, Ascension Island, but flew in the war zone.

  • No. 1(F) Squadron - (Harrier GR.3) 10 (4) (HMS Hermes & Port San Carlos)
  • No. 18 Squadron - (Chinook HC.1) 4 (3) +1 at Wideawake
  • No. 29 Squadron - (Phantom FGR.2) 3; only at Wideawake
  • No. 39 Squadron - (Canberra PR.9) 2; Clandestine operations from Chile[4][5]
  • No. 42 Squadron - (Nimrod MR.2) 13 MR.2 from all squadrons
  • No. 44 Squadron - (Vulcan B.2) 2
  • No. 47 Squadron - (Hercules C.1)
  • No. 50 Squadron - (Vulcan B.2) 1
  • No. 51 Squadron - (Nimrod R.1) 3
  • No. 55 Squadron - (Victor K.2) 20 Victor K.2 from both squadrons
  • No. 57 Squadron - (Victor K.2)
  • No. 70 Squadron - (Hercules C.1)
  • No. 101 Squadron - (Vulcan B.2) 1
  • No. 120 Squadron - (Nimrod MR.2)
  • No. 201 Squadron - (Nimrod MR.2)
  • No. 202 Squadron - (Sea King HAR.3) 1 only at Wideawake
  • No. 206 Squadron - (Nimrod MR.2)

Armament

  • L44A1 GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun)
  • 30 mm ADEN Cannon with 120-130 rounds Sea Harrier, Harrier GR.3
  • AIM-9D/G Sidewinder Air-to-air missile (AAM) F-4 at Wideawake
  • AIM-9L Sidewinder AAM Sea Harrier, Harrier GR.3 [6]
  • AGM-45 Shrike Air-to-Surface Anti-radiation missile (ARM) Vulcan
  • BAe Sea Skua Air-to-Surface anti-ship missile Lynx
  • Aerospatiale AS.12 Air-to-Surface missile Wasp
  • Paveway II Laser-guided bomb (LGB), 454 kg Harrier GR.3
  • BL755 Cluster bomb with 147 bomblets Sea Harrier
  • 1,000 lb General Purpose Bomb Sea Harrier, Harrier GR.3 & Vulcan
  • SNEB Rockets Harrier GR.3, Gazelle[7]
  • Mk. 46 Torpedo
  • Mk. 11 Depth charge

Air Campaign

Sea Harrier FRS.1 1,435 sorties,[8] 20 (+3) kills, 6 lost.
Harrier GR.3 126 sorties, 4 lost.
Vulcan B.2 5 sorties: 1, 3 May and 12 June; 21x1,000 lbs bombs - 31 May and 3 June; 4[9] x AGM-45 Shrike.
Victor K.2 375 sorties; 14 sorties per Vulcan raid, 12 sorties per extended Nimrod patrol, 6 sorties per Hercules long-range drop, 6 sorties per Harrier GR.3 staging (4), 3 radar reconnaissance sorties to South Georgia.
Nimrod MR.2 111 sorties: maritime patrols, coordinate air refueling, SAR links.
Hercules C.1 50+ airdrop sorties at Falklands Island, 600+ airbridge sorties UK-Ascension Island

Casualties and aircraft losses

  • Human losses:
    • 2 Army Air Corps[10]
    • 4 3 Commando Brigade Air Squadron Royal Marines
    • 17 Fleet Air Arm
  • Passengers
    • 1 Royal Air Force[11]
    • 18 Special Air Service (Army)[11]
    • 3 Royal Corps of Signals (Army)[10][11]
  • Aircraft Lost in the Air:, no suffix: Fleet Air Arm
    • 2 Sea Harrier FRS.1 (hit by anti-aircraft fire during 4 May attack on Goose Green and by Roland missile during 1 June attack on Port Stanley)[12]
    • 3 Westland Gazelle AH.1 Army and Royal Marines[10][13]
    • 3 Harrier GR.3 RAF (shot down by shoulder-fired missile in Port Howard on 21 May, hit by anti-aircraft fire on 27 May over Goose Green and hit by ground fire near Port Stanley on 30 May)[12]
    • 1 Scout AH.1 Royal Marines (shot down by Pucara at Goose Green on 28 May)[12]
  • Flying accidents in the war zone
    • 2 Westland Wessex HU.5 (crashed on in bad weather on Fortune Glacier 22 April)[12]
    • 2 Westland Sea King HC.4[11] (1 lost operational accident 23 April)[12]
    • 4 Sea Harrier FRS.1 (two 801 Sqn CAP collided over the task force on 6 May - one 800 Sqn crashed during takeoff from Hermes on 24 May - one 801 Sqn slid off deck in bad weather on 29 May)[12]
    • 2 Westland Sea King HAS.5 (ditched on 12 May & 17 May)[12]
    • 1 Harrier GR.3 RAF (landing accident on 8 June)[12]
    • 1 Scout AH.1 Royal Marines (crash landed after main rotor gearbox failure over MacPhee Pond, 8 June. Recovered but written off.)[12]
  • Lost on board a ship
    • 3 Westland Lynx HAS.2 (aboard Ardent on 21 May and aboard Coventry and Atlantic Conveyor on 25 May)[12]
    • 3 Chinook HC.1 RAF[14]
    • 6 Westland Wessex HU.5[14]
    • 1 Westland Wessex HAS.3 (when Glamorgan hit by shore-launched Exocet on 12 June)[12]
  • Self-destruct in Chile
    • 1 Westland Sea King HC.4 (on 20 May)[12]

References

1. ^Nott, John "The Falklands Campaign" United States Naval Institute Proceedings May 1983 p.122
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewscentre.co.uk/falklands/flier.htm|title=Sea Harrier Pilot Wins DSC|publisher=|accessdate=27 December 2014|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150719174707/http://www.thenewscentre.co.uk/falklands/flier.htm|archivedate=19 July 2015|df=dmy-all}}
3. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/brit-aircraftlosses.htm# |title=e.g. Flight Lieutenant Ian Mortimer |access-date=4 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605055316/http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/brit-aircraftlosses.htm# |archive-date=5 June 2013 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }}
4. ^http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/aircraft.html#canberra
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/falklands/rafau.html|title=RAF - Page not found|publisher=|accessdate=27 December 2014}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.f-16.net/f-16_armament_article1.html|title=F-16 Armament - AIM-9 Sidewinder|publisher=|accessdate=27 December 2014}}
7. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZUjMYkfr-pwC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=gazelle+sneb&source=bl&ots=MCopeM2epk&sig=EZdrjTULU-68K144evK2VEFz3Rw&hl=en&ei=JsLFSobAMuO6jAf6yoFN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=sneb&f=false|title=Battle for the Falklands (3): Air Forces - Google Books|publisher=books.google.co.uk|accessdate=2009-10-02}}
8. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/air-war.htm# |title=Falklands Air War |access-date=15 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120025712/http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/air-war.htm# |archive-date=20 January 2011 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }}
9. ^"armed with four Shrikes for another attack against the Falklands." page 67 in Peter R. March: The Vulcan Story, 2006, Sutton Publishing/'Vulcan to the Sky' trust, {{ISBN|0-7509-4399-8}}
10. ^1 2 1982 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident: Gazelle shot down by friendly Sea Dart missile from HMS Cardiff on 6 June. All four onboard killed, two from 656 Squadron, Army Air Corps and two from 205 Signal Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals
11. ^1 2 3   {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605055316/http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/brit-aircraftlosses.htm# |date=5 June 2013 }} Probable bird strike to transport helicopter operating between Intrepid and Hermes on 20 May
12. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Ethell, Jeffrey and Price, Alfred Air War South Atlantic Macmillan Publishing Company (1983) pp.248-251 {{ISBN|0-02-536300-X}}
13. ^  {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605055316/http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/brit-aircraftlosses.htm# |date=5 June 2013 }} (2 Gazelles shot down by Argentine army forces small arms leaving San Carlos area on 21 May)
14. ^1 25 May aboard Atlantic Conveyor

External links

  • British site about British Aircraft lost
  • Britains Small Wars.com:
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20061202084602/http://www.fuerzaaerea.mil.ar/conflicto/index_conflicto.html Argentine Air Force (FAA) official site about the Malvinas/Falkland Air War]
  • Fleet Air Arm - RAF Role and Operations
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