Hearing that the captain of the Belgrano and other naval officers actually defended Britain’s actions and saying they would’ve done the same is very admirable of them. I had no idea that they did that
The Argentine Navy, has apparently always viewed the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano as a legitimate act of war. It's usually been the Argentine government that have tried to claim it was a warcrime
Elements of the British Left never could accept the UK's right to defend itself, and set in chain a smear campaign. A head of the Argentine Navy said that to say that the sailors were murdered was an insult to their memory as sailors who died in battle, in a letter to La Nacion.
Quite simply the best documentary I have seen on the Falklands War. Excellent graphics, and use of contemporary archive materials. Very impressive piece.
I have to second that comment. This is the best and most comprehensive documentary I have ever watched. It must have taken you weeks to put together. Fantastic.
Agreed. I clicked on it by accident but stuck till the end. Just listening to the account of PTSD off Falkland vets while recalling a girl I knew who lived in a homeless hostel with a Falklands vet. Most in there were on hard drugs and nursing different forms of trauma. One reason I would be reluctant to go to war would be PTSD.......I probably have it already....... death would be better than enduring a life like that. Some people can never go back to civilian life for other reasons. Boredom or whatever
Argentine here. Thanks for making this exceptional documentary. 100% Respect to Great Britain and RIP to all lost on both sides. Hopefully all their lives paid for the possibility to resolve future disputes by non violent means. 🇬🇧❤🇦🇷
@@rickyphillips7630 Agreed. It's difficult to move on when politicians use it as an emotional button they can just push whenever they need popularity, but eventually younger generations are going to care less and less about rehashing pointless disputes of the past and more about actual relevant issues.
You are shame of your ancestors, British occupy your land and you think that in some time you will solve it peacefully. There is no possibility to solve anything peacefully with the West
I was there as a nineteen year old Royal Marine in Four Five Commando. I was st Two Sisters and was watching Longdon thinking 'that looks rough' - apparently the Para's were looking at Two Sisters thinking the same. My OC received the MC & my Section Commander the MM for that night's work. As for me - I was simply pleased to come home. I'm now in regular contact with an Argentine mortar-man who was at Two Sisters: after trying to kill each other we're now friends. I'm also friends with the son of an Argentine KIA fighter pilot who is coming over this summer, 2024, to stay a few days at my home. Interesting times and a great, well researched story which I listened to as I pottered about. Well Done!
That’s how it all should be, respect for all from all sides once it’s over. Good on you mate. Never faced a ‘professional force’ so to speak, but we would discuss it (OH XII&XIII), what it would mean, the pros and cons! I say this in the context of being able to follow your example and speak to former adversaries as friends sometime in the future. I think on it sometimes but alas, it’s very unlikely. Maybe Afghan to Afghan perhaps though.
As an ex Royal Marine Commando I have watched many Falklands documentary’s over the years. This by far is the best with so many bits of information I was not aware of. It fills me with pride to watch this knowing what my country and everyone who had taken part in help accomplish. May all who fell Rest In Peace. 🇬🇧
I hope you include the young Argentinian conscripts when you praise all that fell. I hope you include all of the merchant seaman serving on RFA ships who were refused the option they had been promised to leave at Ascension Island in your prayers. I was on RFA Resource, a ship full of weapons (including nuclear) who were provided with almost no cover from the British military, as our own dictator had systematically dismantled the need for military defence. As a young Scotsman I had seen everything we stood for cruelly torn from us by that evil piece of crap. Men who were proud to work in the pits, to provide coal to the steel workers who made steel to build ships, who made the ships to provide work for the dockers. I am sad for everyone that lost their life or were injured in a war that was manufactured between Thatcher and Galtieri to save their political careers, I am still haunted by the bombs dropped around me in San Carlos Bay. I take no joy in our victory.
@@superstardeejay2468 it’s unfortunate that even today some don’t even allow you to be patriotic and proud which is probably why you replied to me instead of leaving it a main comment. When I say “all” I mean ALL. We obviously have different views on this but as a veteran of two lengthy frontline deployments to Afghan and Iraq by my government I don’t whine about it, I did what was expected so please don’t preach to me about bombs. I am not here to argue but leave my respects and to commend this video.
A series of CIA aerial photography analyses showed the level of detail of U.S. surveillance of Argentine forces on the ground: "Vessels present include the 25 de Mayo aircraft carrier with no aircraft on the flight-deck," reads one; "at the airfield [redacted] were parked in the maintenance area [....] 707 is on a parking apron with its side cargo door open," reads another. reading the declassified stuff about secret US support .
I was an Australian civilian working for the New Zealand Defence Dept. during the conflict. I saw information and was happy to note it published in full within days to the public. Both good and bad news, which inspired great confidence in the news media. A time I will never forget.
@@realtruth4804 nono we get real time information of war zones now. just take a look at ukraine we know everything that happened at every second of the war... why? social media
Thank you for producing this doco. In 1982 at the age of 14, I was in southern Argentina with my father (a glaciologist), as part of a glaciology conference. The war broke out just as we arrived in the southern town of Rio Gallegos, after our tour of Patagonia. As two New Zealanders, we were the only Commonwealth members of the trip and became very anxious about being detained in Argentina. In fact, our scheduled flight back to Buenos Aires, on an Aerolineas Argentinas Boeing 727 was cancelled as the plane was commandeered to fly Argentine Army personnel to the 'Islas Malvinas', as we got to know them. Things got worse as the NZ government cancelled all flights between Argentina and Auckland, NZ. Diplomatic communications between the NZ embassy and the Argentinian authorities saw us fly to BA and then onto Los Angeles (on an Aerolineas Argentinas plane!). Seeing our Air New Zealand Boeing 747 in LA was quite an experience. I still have a good deal of Argentinian war-related material from the episode, it seems quite historic now - at the age of 56 !
@@jonahlittle-bw5oo 1) What a nuanced response. 2). And yet you still read the piece. 3) So tell us your interesting story from that event, it must be RIIIVITING !
Just incredible. I’ve watched all these videos separately, but clicked on the video anyways. It’s just impossible to click away. You did a fantastic job as always.
As Argentinian, it is the most complete and mainly Neutral documentary that I have seen, showing a lot of respect to both parties. Unnecessary war, between a country (Argentina) historically not warlike (politically and culturally) whose politicians were looking for a distraction to hide their terrible national policies, against a militarily overwhelming country like Great Britain. Both fighting with bravery and honor. Perhaps for the British it does not represent such an important war in terms of forces and casualties, taking into account its long military history, but for us and our limited war history it was. May the perished rest in peace, and may it serve to remember the consequences of unnecessary wars.
If I can comment on Belgrano. Obviously it represents a defeat and a disgrace for my compatriots. But if analyzed neutrally, we were an aggressor country and another that defended itself. A couple of miles from the exclusion zone doesn't change anything. Both parties would have done the same.
Why are you sugar coating the British in your comment? The Malvinas Islas are Argentinian. The Brits never had any rights to them. Just like many parts of the world, they stole the lands from the people, and here you are giving them credit. Come on!
One thing that's often overlooked, on both sides, is the mental toll of the war on those who fought it. I can't remember his name, but there was a British gunner on one of the taskforce ships who shot down one of the Argentine fighters and he was haunted by the image of the plane catching on fire after being hit and was certain when he saw the crash site that there was no way the pilot had survived. But, unbeknownst to him, the pilot, Mariano Velasco, ejected before impact and survived. In 2012, just before the 30th anniversary of the conflict, as part of a project through the BBC programme "Inside Out Yorkshire," he was taken to Velasco's house in Argentina and in a tearjerking moment, these two men from different sides, warmly embraced one another
@alankennedy3747 weren't the Falklands uninhabited until the British settled there? As far as claims go, I think that's pretty valid. Only the birds living there have a better claim
That is literally the most brilliantly illustrated video of the Falklands War I have ever seen. You really do deserve the praise you get for this. I couldn't be any more impressed than I am. If I were to pick the best video I have seen in the last ten years, this one would take the prize. Thank you.
My granddad was a seaman in one of the british transports in this war. He never spoke much about it but i remember he once told about having a bomb land on his ship, bounce off a mast, and punch a hole in the ship’s hull before landing in the water. I guess it was one of those faulty bombs, that fortunately spared his life. Rest in peace, granddad
They weren't faulty, they were fuzed incorrectly, set up for too high a drop. So when the drop doesn't come, the bombs don't arm. Unfortunately the BBC announced to the whole world what the problem was and that's why the bombs worked on Coventry and Galahad. Loose lips _literally_ sank ships 🤬
My father was in the Welsh Guard that was sent to the Falklands. He filmed almost everything there to the point his original film and and diaries of his time there was pretty much given its own section in the British Military Museum’s Falkland exhibition that they are creating. I don’t know if the channel owner looks at comments but if you would like I can send you a copy
Wow! Over the years I've watched many histories of the Falkland Islands War. And I lived through it. Most histories have focused, mainly, on the land war with lots of details and footage of the landing at Goose Harbor through victory at Stanley. This provides hiorical context, and all the happenings before the British attack/s. Nice! Best production I've seen. Ever. Thanks.
What a fantastic video, very well written and informative. The only thing that would of been worth a mentioning was the Vulcan bombing mission against the port stanley airfield. The amount of tankers and air to air refueling to get that far was just insane. Loved the video and love the channel!
Tankers refuelling tankers was just insane on it's own. I've seen a documentary on the whole flight plan and the refuelling requirements and only the RAF could have come up with it!
The Blackbuck Vulcan raid was militarily insignificant and the filmmaker was probably right to quickly brush over it without going into detail about the huge effort behind the scenes that went into the mission.
Argentina on the sinking of the Belgrano, "A treacherous act of armed aggression" from the country that hadn't declared war but invaded the Falkland islands and blew up a barracks in Stanley where they beleived nearly 100 marines were stationed and were asleep...
Argentina's ruling junta of the time were treacherous scumbags, but as both the video and other posters have pointed out, the Belgrano's captain and Argentina's military in general conducted themselves honorably even when their rulers were pushing for worse...
It"s interesting to see that Thatchers decision wasn't so cut and dried from a start and there was lot of hesitation. From other documentaries you get a feeling like as she was sending ships the moment the Argentinians started barely thinking about invading Falklands.
I think something that is underplayed a lot is just what a colossal political risk Thatcher was taking in sending the task force. If it had been a disaster (which it easily could have been), it would have brought her government down
The mad cow had been told a year before that this was Argentinian plan by the Chilian. She did nothing except order the scrapping of HMS Ark Royal, the sale of HMS Invincible to the Australians and the sale of a LSD to Argentina which fell through. She then ordered the scrapping of the Ice Class Patrol ship HMS Endurance!
@@historigraphHi. I'm Chilean. Good content. About Thatcher, she was forced by the circumstances: 1) If she didn't do anything, she was a political cadaver walking. 2) If she sent the Task Force, it could or could not end in disaster. There is a better prospect of political survival with number 2) if you think it very rationally. But in the moment, the tension, fear and shock can cloud our own judgement.
@@historigraph I'm sure her office also had to take into account how this would play out on the world stage remember this was during the Cold War and Argentina was a communist run country. The Cuban missile crisis was still fresh in people's minds, the few near launch threats on both sides, and the Soviets we're eerily quiet through all of this. This was a very dangerous global chess board.
The attention to detail is akin to an autopsy of this war and I’m not kidding I found this mesmerising Huge congratulations to the team that made this …. It’s quite simply breathtaking and I don’t say that lightly
That was one of the best and most comprehensive accounts of the Falkland’s war I have ever seen. RIP all the brave men on both sides who lost their lives - what a tragedy.
I have only known very general and superficial information about the Falkland war, this documentary was the best I could have looked for and found. It kept me captivated like only few documentaries do, so well narrated and presented with the most details possible I feel, as much as from the tactical, technical and human aspect that a war conflict unfortunately brings, but without making viewers get lost in all of those images and numerous information. Very well done, great job!
This is an absolutely brilliant program. You can't overstate how large the Falklands conflict loomed over everyone. There was a real fear here in America as well as elsewhere that the war cold result in a power shift that would send Argentina into alleginment with the Soviets and broaden the USSR's influence. Of course that didn't happen but there was no way to know this at the time. An excellent documentary of a major historical event.
Argentina would never ever alingn with communists, at that time actually our military forces were working closely with USA to fight communist guerrilla in Argentina.
Our government in Argentina is and was deeply anticommunist. It had never aligned with the Soviet Union while the United States allowed them to conquer and enslave half of Europe.
Excellent documentary. I was in the Falklands/Malvinas for the first time in December this year. Your research and delivery is just fantastic. The animations are super smooth and insightful.
It’s called the FALKLANDS, you don’t include irrelevant outdated translations of any other country alongside their REAL name, do you? So why do you feel the need to disrespect the brave fighters for Falkland freedom? Don’t be scared of seething argies and anti western Russian bots
This was a great documentary, I greatly enjoyed it. I was in the Falklands working for the British Antarctic Survey 5 years after the war and decided one day to walk 40km from Port Stanley to the top of Mount Kent and back. I almost walked through an uncleared Argentinian minefield on the return! The captain wasn't very happy with me because I was late back to the RRS John Biscoe.
Your documentary about this concise war was exceptional, a superb incorporation of graphics and historical footage. I thoroughly appreciated this summary.
I like the short and snappy style of your normal videos. It allows precise access to anything I feel like watching and is very accessible before sleeping. That being said, if anyone deserves to and has the capacity to make documentaries of this size- which still is quite short honestly- it would be you. I hope you continue the longer documentaries and hope you are still enjoying this project.
This is the most comprehensive,clear and entertaining documentary on the Falklands war I’ve seen. Commentary, graphics and film footage is just brilliantly balanced. Clearly and awful amount of time and research has been made. Thank you . 👍🏴🇬🇧🏴
In New York I watched this intently on TV every day at the time. Everyone I knew was rooting for the Brits. Still, this documentary filled in so much information that was omitted from typical TV sources...great job! Best part: Democracy won in both countries!
And boy look how entertaining that democracy has been 😂, Boris the bumbling idiot, rishi sunak, Liz truss's nightmare, former pm on the cabinet as a lord, and Javier milei as Argentinas president!
Such a great documentary. As an American, I had heard this was a quick action wherein the British took the island in a day or two with the Argentines surrendering en masse at the first signs of hostilities. I had no idea there were such significant action and losses on both sides. A short war to be sure, but this documentary did an outstanding job of helping me understand just how harrowing this must have been for both militaries. Thank you!
@@bafa000don’t down play Argentina, they did pretty well for a country that still used world war 2 vessels mainly along with old used vehicles and aircraft
This is absolutely superb - the detail and the context of the conflict are welded together so well plus the detailed insight behind the various battles is illuminating - it didn’t feel long at any point either - thank you so much for creating this for us.
Thoroughly enjoyable! Also significant was the support of Chilean gorvernment of moving some of their troops to the border, forcing Argentina to keep strong army groups home, as a precaution.
2 or so years prior, Argentina was posturing to go to war with Chile for some islands in the patagonia, so...not so strange that Chile sided with the british in this conflict.
Ah I didn't realize that. I was wondering why the Argentine garrison on the Falklands seemed so small. I would have fortified that place like nobody's business to make Britain really have to work for taking the islands back. But if there was a feisty Chile in the picture... makes sense!
@@Eggnog18 as an Argentine I can tell you that our army back in the 80s, and even nowadays, is small, unprepared and unexperienced. Our government, for some weird reason, thought that since the world and the UK were going through bad economic and political times we would have the upper hand. Politics aside, and whether you think the islands are british or argentine, I think we can all agree our government was delusional and we never stood a chance against a first world powerhouse like the UK army.
Thank you so much for this video. I can honestly say that this is THE best documentary on the Falkland's War I have yet seen. You gave a perfect balance of tactics, with history, with inserts of relevant footage of the time and war. I did not get distracted from your video once; it was that engaging. During the entire video I had the Falkland Islands called up on Google earth and I was looking at the terrain, distances and the topography of the scene as you described it. Again, thank you so much.
American here! I'd never done any historic research on the Falklands War until running across your doc! This is a great piece of film, and I've gotta say the archive footage you put together was absolutely incredible to see! Argentine fast-movers METERS overhead of British warships and a news crew is shooting the footage as it's happening within arms reach, ground combat footage of the exact event you're discussing, and my absolute favorite, a British Carrier coming home flanked on all sides by celebrating civilian vessels! This is as much of an "era piece" for that age of TV Media as it is a war documentary. Excellent work!
When there were people calling for Pinochet's arrest for crimes against his people, Thatcher opposed it, saying he had helped the UK greatly. This implied Chile had tied up Argentine forces during the Falklands campaign
Iirc pinochet allowed the SAS to launch a covert mission from Chile to seek out and destroy Exocet missiles that Argentina had purchased from France and were the biggest threat to the task force. This was a secret that wasn’t made public for decades as Pinochet was supposed to be neutral. Don’t quote me on any of that as I’m saying this from memory but that is my understanding , most of the history books don’t document this as it didn’t come out for literally decades.
Chile gave the UK important intelligence, plus sent back British troops who attacked Argentina. This documentary doesn't talk about it but a helicopter dropped off SAS on the Argentine mainland to cause trouble. But because the helicopter was damaged the flight crew destroyed it themselves and then surrendered themselves to Chile at the border. They were quickly returned home. The SAS carried out their mission with thousands of Argentine soldiers hunting for them. Once the mission was done they burnt their uniforms and destroyed their equipment, then put on civillian clothes and crossed over to Chile on fake passports before flying home on a commercial flight.
Apparently Australia offered the Brits that Australian navy was ready to come to the fight too, and were told that their help was not required. Australians must LOVE warfare, they seem to have been in every war they can.
Well especially when Her Majesty's subjects are threatened. We've always got your backs mate. But I think the Kiwi's sent HMNZS Canterbury to the Indian Ocean to relive a Royal Navy ship so the Poms could have more ships ready for the war. Those sheep shaggers are a dependable lot.
Some year's later when former NZ PM Robert Muldoon was on a British Airways flight the pilot announced that he was on board. Most of the passengers stood up and gave him a standing ovation.@@davids5566
The British Major screwed up. His trying to cover all the beaches around the airport meant he didn't have enough forces to defend anywhere effectively. That's a mistake a butter bar would do and a Major's should know better. It was REALLY DUMB! P.S. Being on the defensive you're expected to defeat a force three times your size since you get to set up the kill boxes, mine fields etc. and do it from cover.
@@readhistory2023 he defended against the (correct) assumed landing ground, while not committing war crimes like setting land mines. It was a bold but effective move by the Argentinians to go after political buildings but it worked. I don't see your solution working (legally, and) better than his. There's only so much you can do with a few dozen troops
I was a junior in college when the Falkands War started. It was all over the news at the time, but the level of detail presented in this video was never shown. This was thoroughly interesting and informative. Great work!
Excellent work. Although I lived through the conflict, and saw it on the news every day in my lower 6th year, I've never seen it in one go before. It makes a lot more sense to me now and I really appreciate the effort that went into making this complete analysis. Thank you.
This is an exceptional documentary. The use of first rate animated graphics and maps to clearly display each stage of the conflict is first rate. The commentary is clear concise and highly informative- without needless rhetorical flourishes you find in many documentaries where the narrator "gets in the way" of the story telling. So much content squeezed into the comprehensive presentation. The simplicity of presentation makes it easy to follow and understand with a clear geographical overview that allows the viewer to see everything in context. All of this skilfully conceals the amount of planning and painstaking research in preparing this feature length production. One of the best documentaries I've seen about any conflict!
Awesome documentation! You should have mentioned Operation Black Buck (the bombing of Stanley airfield in several long-range operations by the British). Very interesting episode.
One of the men who rescued those SAS Soldiers stuck on the Glacier was Chris Parry, and I highly recommend anyone interested in the topics to listen to one of his talks on his experience during the War. Very insightful and hilarious at times.
It’s kinda amazing to see exactly how many instances of bad luck and poor decisions had to line up for the Sheffield to be sunk. Combine that with the skill and technology available to the Argentinian pilots, and you end up with a ship that specializes in Anti-Air getting sunk by two planes.
British military technology was pretty crap, some Harriers (GR3) had no radars, the tech on the RN destroyers wasn't up to missile defence, some ships were basically fireworks ready to burn. The Blowpipe was only successful against a Harrier (the Argentines had some).
@@EdMcF1 Royal Navy doctrine before the Falklands War was to monitor the GIUK gap and hunt Soviet submarines not to fight a expeditionary war thousands of miles away. Royal Navy AA missiles were designed to shoot down high altitude Soviet bombers not low flying attack aircraft. The fleet had lots of anti submarine warfare frigates but no large AA destroyers except HMS Bristol. The capabilities of Type 42 destroyer got nerfed by defence cuts
I actually was never taught this nor did I ever go out of my way to learn about it until this video. Good work. I was rooting for the Brits the entire time. Glad I wasn't let down.
Excellent video. I was just 11 when the war broke out. It was the first war I vividly remember. I was in the US, but since it was a Latin American country, the sense was that Argentina had a right to Las Islas Malvinas in my neighborhood in LA. I’ve read numerous books and watched numerous documentaries, and this doc was one of the best. great job.
Those scrap metal workers certainly gave us an advantage by bringing the conflict forward. Had the AAF got its full complement of Etendards and Exocet the task force would have had a very difficult task. Thank you for posting 😊
An excellent look of the Falklands conflict. One aspect that I thought needed a little more of a mention was 'Operation Black Buck' where a lone RAF Vulcan bomber did an 8000 mile round trip to successfully bomb the airfield at Port Stanley, which dissuaded the Argentinians from basing some of their more capable aircraft there. Also not mentioned that the Argentinians possessed and flew Mirage 3 fighter jets, which had twice the speed of the Harriers and a much higher ceiling. 3 Harriers were lost, including pilots in the conflict: 1 by enemy ant-aircraft fire and 2 in a collision in bad weather. No Harriers were shot down by Argentinian aircraft. I also believe an SAS troop was also lost in a helicopter crash in the sea. (Not 100% sure of that). Although a brilliant UK victory, as the head of the UK ground forces said later: "It was a damned close thing".
@@franciscosansalone I believe some Mirage 3s were shot down by Sea harriers. The link is to an extensive three part interview with a Harrier pilot who was there and I'm sure he recounts shooting down a Mirage 3 and only 1 Harrier was brought down by anti-aircraft fire, as I said in my original comment. ruclips.net/video/VDLurF-xU38/видео.htmlsi=_W5Ck9P-P0wnuiTw
I have read articles and a book and seen a couple different documentaries on this war. (In addition to the newspaper and nightly news broadcasts at the time) Kudos for this video! I never truly understood the campaign as well as I do after watching this. Shiwing the exact location of the British ships hit and the direction and makeup of the attackers was masterful.
This is An Amazing Documentary, brilliant visuals and the detail is stunning, Would you consider covering the Chad-Libyan conflict? I'd believe it would fit your style perfectly.
I have watched many documentaries on this war. This had many details the others hadn't covered. Some of the others had interviews with survivors on both sides. Taken all together this is a very well covered war. The Russo -Ukraine war, if and when it ends, will be more difficult due to the staggering amount of information.
@@LondonSteveLee LMAO the RAF doesn't need to prove itself relevant to anyone. It was about getting one last hurrah out of the V Bomber fleet, and sending a message to the Argies.
Fantastic video mate, I really like these longer videos. And to add to it, I have talked to my father about the Falklands war and he remembers that there was a real fear among Brazilians at the time, and that we would be caught in the crossfire. At the time Brazil had good relations with the British and some moved for a Brazilian assit on the British side of the conflict. There was even a jet that had to make an emergency landing at a Brazilian airport.
I will NEVER understand the uproar over the Belgrano. It was a naval vessel in the service of a nation at war. Submarines are SUPPOSED to sink enemy naval vessels wherever and whenever they find them. All this "it was treacherous aggression" and "outside the area" and "sailing away" is completely irrelevant. The ONLY thing that should be able to save a naval vessel from destruction during war is if its a hospital ship...or surrendering. Anything else should not be a surprise to anyone.
@manos-mf7uj it would be like the Japanese lodging a formal complaint that the US sunk their carriers at Midway as they were sailing away from the island...
@lecooldude it wasn't just the Argentinians that got butthurt about it though, it became this big international incident for some weird reason and Britain took a shitload of flak for it, like it was some kind of warcrime.
You know,,, this is an extremely well made video here. Very detailed and able to convey some of the emotions that were stirred through out all of it! Cheers !
Agreed, seems like egregious incompetence on his end, for if he had his ship ready like Glasgow, I don't think Sheffield would have been lost, maybe still hit, but less damage, or better damage mitigation. Honestly, the captain's actions should be criminal though why satellite communications were allowed, which interfered with its primary duty of air defense, could be a reflection of poor command by the Admiral too if allowed by the Task Force commander in prior orders.
Type 42's were the cheapest design option- basically a frigate sized ship with a 4.5" gun, a chopper, torpedo tubes, and a sea dart launcher with 22 missiles. As designed they had no CWIS, no short range interceptors, and in 1982 the satellite linkup did interfere with other things apparently. They were upgraded after the war with close in weapons systems, and other vital additions. But their small size basically limited them to simple air defense platforms with gun capacity, yet they proved versatile and good ships despite these drawbacks. Exeter at the Falklands and Gloucester in Desert Storm achieved dramatic missile intercepts, and before she got sunk at the Falklands Coventry did stellar work defending the invasion force. Still a really stupid decision to scrap them instead of putting them in reserve or Heaven forbid keeping them around to actually get a bigger Fleet- with VLS tubes and new radars they'd still be useful ships to have around (as would type 22 and type 23 frigates, and the Invincibles...)
Sadly the ships are pretty obsolete, even as reserve ships. They don't have the power capacity for VLS without going through a complete engine refit, which at that point it's not cost effective. Nothing corrodes like sea water either, ships are just doomed to eventually 'rust', the older the ship the more it costs to keep maintained from manpower to material. Most of the time a ship is retired is because it lacks the power capacity for the newest upgrades, that's why ships have been designed today for next gen technology now that we kind of know what it's going to be. The power draw for a modern data and sensor suite is just absurd. It's why the American ships like the Ticonderoga and Arleigh Burke are so good, because they have the hull volume to have had so many upgrades! British ships are comparatively tiny compared to their USN counterparts.@@robruss62
It WAS touched on - there was even a Vulcan graphic used. I can’t see any need for the narrator to have gone any deeper though as the raid was ineffectual and, whilst an interesting side-story for RAF history buffs, would be of little interest to a global audience wanting a concise overview of the war itself compressed into a watchable 90 or so minutes.
Wow.. I rarely write comments, or watch anything that capture my complete interest and involvement for 90 minutes. What a superb documentary. Well done, and thank you for this very informative video on the falklands conflict
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You are amazing.
I like it alot.
Very cool
Love it!
Absolutely fantastic
Hearing that the captain of the Belgrano and other naval officers actually defended Britain’s actions and saying they would’ve done the same is very admirable of them. I had no idea that they did that
Very honorable man, gave several very good interviews about it over the years.
The Argentine Navy, has apparently always viewed the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano as a legitimate act of war. It's usually been the Argentine government that have tried to claim it was a warcrime
Elements of the British Left never could accept the UK's right to defend itself, and set in chain a smear campaign. A head of the Argentine Navy said that to say that the sailors were murdered was an insult to their memory as sailors who died in battle, in a letter to La Nacion.
Because lying would make them look like even bigger losers.
True soldier. War without hatred.
He was doing his duty, while the British did theirs.
Quite simply the best documentary I have seen on the Falklands War. Excellent graphics, and use of contemporary archive materials. Very impressive piece.
I have to second that comment. This is the best and most comprehensive documentary I have ever watched. It must have taken you weeks to put together. Fantastic.
the name is ISLAS MALVINAS
@@loudermusiconly for 74 days my friend.
Agreed. I clicked on it by accident but stuck till the end. Just listening to the account of PTSD off Falkland vets while recalling a girl I knew who lived in a homeless hostel with a Falklands vet. Most in there were on hard drugs and nursing different forms of trauma. One reason I would be reluctant to go to war would be PTSD.......I probably have it already....... death would be better than enduring a life like that. Some people can never go back to civilian life for other reasons. Boredom or whatever
@@loudermusic Argentina is the lawful property of the Spanish King.
Argentine here. Thanks for making this exceptional documentary. 100% Respect to Great Britain and RIP to all lost on both sides. Hopefully all their lives paid for the possibility to resolve future disputes by non violent means. 🇬🇧❤🇦🇷
Hopefully, Argentina as a country and a people, sees that this dispute is settled, and moves on.
@@rickyphillips7630 Agreed. It's difficult to move on when politicians use it as an emotional button they can just push whenever they need popularity, but eventually younger generations are going to care less and less about rehashing pointless disputes of the past and more about actual relevant issues.
Look what happened to top gear in Argentina LOL salty fucks can’t cope we took back islands that were never theirs
I've made many comments on here in support of my country during the Falklands War but I hold out my hand to you for your comment.
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You are shame of your ancestors, British occupy your land and you think that in some time you will solve it peacefully. There is no possibility to solve anything peacefully with the West
I was there as a nineteen year old Royal Marine in Four Five Commando. I was st Two Sisters and was watching Longdon thinking 'that looks rough' - apparently the Para's were looking at Two Sisters thinking the same. My OC received the MC & my Section Commander the MM for that night's work. As for me - I was simply pleased to come home.
I'm now in regular contact with an Argentine mortar-man who was at Two Sisters: after trying to kill each other we're now friends. I'm also friends with the son of an Argentine KIA fighter pilot who is coming over this summer, 2024, to stay a few days at my home.
Interesting times and a great, well researched story which I listened to as I pottered about. Well Done!
As a retired USAF Senior Officer, I was proud of both of the military servicemen, and the honor in which they served their Nations.
That’s how it all should be, respect for all from all sides once it’s over. Good on you mate.
Never faced a ‘professional force’ so to speak, but we would discuss it (OH XII&XIII), what it would mean, the pros and cons! I say this in the context of being able to follow your example and speak to former adversaries as friends sometime in the future. I think on it sometimes but alas, it’s very unlikely. Maybe Afghan to Afghan perhaps though.
@devlin7575 Thanks mate. Appreciated!
As an ex Royal Marine Commando I have watched many Falklands documentary’s over the years. This by far is the best with so many bits of information I was not aware of. It fills me with pride to watch this knowing what my country and everyone who had taken part in help accomplish.
May all who fell Rest In Peace. 🇬🇧
I hope you include the young Argentinian conscripts when you praise all that fell. I hope you include all of the merchant seaman serving on RFA ships who were refused the option they had been promised to leave at Ascension Island in your prayers. I was on RFA Resource, a ship full of weapons (including nuclear) who were provided with almost no cover from the British military, as our own dictator had systematically dismantled the need for military defence.
As a young Scotsman I had seen everything we stood for cruelly torn from us by that evil piece of crap. Men who were proud to work in the pits, to provide coal to the steel workers who made steel to build ships, who made the ships to provide work for the dockers.
I am sad for everyone that lost their life or were injured in a war that was manufactured between Thatcher and Galtieri to save their political careers, I am still haunted by the bombs dropped around me in San Carlos Bay. I take no joy in our victory.
@@superstardeejay2468 it’s unfortunate that even today some don’t even allow you to be patriotic and proud which is probably why you replied to me instead of leaving it a main comment. When I say “all” I mean ALL.
We obviously have different views on this but as a veteran of two lengthy frontline deployments to Afghan and Iraq by my government I don’t whine about it, I did what was expected so please don’t preach to me about bombs.
I am not here to argue but leave my respects and to commend this video.
Britain has no business being there. Pride is the last thing you should be feeling.
A series of CIA aerial photography analyses showed the level of detail of U.S. surveillance of Argentine forces on the ground: "Vessels present include the 25 de Mayo aircraft carrier with no aircraft on the flight-deck," reads one; "at the airfield [redacted] were parked in the maintenance area [....] 707 is on a parking apron with its side cargo door open," reads another.
reading the declassified stuff about secret US support .
@@DeadCat-42 that would be interesting to read. Where do you find it or is it just a google search? Thanks.
As a Falklands veteran i found this to be an accurate and detailed video and exalant commentary brought back a lot of memories.
Thank you for your part in liberating the Falkland Islands.
Jolly good work! Salutations from across the North Sea 🫡🇧🇻
@@audience2 How can you know if he/she is or is not truthful? 😅
@@terroristigaIt would be a He , there were no women soldiers
@@thewingedhussars6313 Thanks.
I was an Australian civilian working for the New Zealand Defence Dept. during the conflict. I saw information and was happy to note it published in full within days to the public. Both good and bad news, which inspired great confidence in the news media. A time I will never forget.
Wouldn't happen now would it? We don't get any clear info out of current warzones
@@realtruth4804 nono we get real time information of war zones now. just take a look at ukraine we know everything that happened at every second of the war... why? social media
The publishing about the attack on goose green wipes out the Paras confidence in it.
Thank you for producing this doco. In 1982 at the age of 14, I was in southern Argentina with my father (a glaciologist), as part of a glaciology conference. The war broke out just as we arrived in the southern town of Rio Gallegos, after our tour of Patagonia. As two New Zealanders, we were the only Commonwealth members of the trip and became very anxious about being detained in Argentina. In fact, our scheduled flight back to Buenos Aires, on an Aerolineas Argentinas Boeing 727 was cancelled as the plane was commandeered to fly Argentine Army personnel to the 'Islas Malvinas', as we got to know them. Things got worse as the NZ government cancelled all flights between Argentina and Auckland, NZ. Diplomatic communications between the NZ embassy and the Argentinian authorities saw us fly to BA and then onto Los Angeles (on an Aerolineas Argentinas plane!). Seeing our Air New Zealand Boeing 747 in LA was quite an experience. I still have a good deal of Argentinian war-related material from the episode, it seems quite historic now - at the age of 56 !
Lucky to have a father like that to travel to exotic places
I never even knew there was such a profession.
Learn something new everyday.
Las Malvinas son argentinas
BORRRRRIIIINNGGGGG
@@jonahlittle-bw5oo 1) What a nuanced response. 2). And yet you still read the piece. 3) So tell us your interesting story from that event, it must be RIIIVITING !
This is bar none the best documentary on the Falklands War I’ve seen, great visuals combined with clear and understandable narration
Just incredible. I’ve watched all these videos separately, but clicked on the video anyways. It’s just impossible to click away. You did a fantastic job as always.
As Argentinian, it is the most complete and mainly Neutral documentary that I have seen, showing a lot of respect to both parties. Unnecessary war, between a country (Argentina) historically not warlike (politically and culturally) whose politicians were looking for a distraction to hide their terrible national policies, against a militarily overwhelming country like Great Britain. Both fighting with bravery and honor.
Perhaps for the British it does not represent such an important war in terms of forces and casualties, taking into account its long military history, but for us and our limited war history it was.
May the perished rest in peace, and may it serve to remember the consequences of unnecessary wars.
If I can comment on Belgrano. Obviously it represents a defeat and a disgrace for my compatriots. But if analyzed neutrally, we were an aggressor country and another that defended itself. A couple of miles from the exclusion zone doesn't change anything. Both parties would have done the same.
Que hacemos acá?
Why are you sugar coating the British in your comment? The Malvinas Islas are Argentinian. The Brits never had any rights to them. Just like many parts of the world, they stole the lands from the people, and here you are giving them credit. Come on!
One thing that's often overlooked, on both sides, is the mental toll of the war on those who fought it. I can't remember his name, but there was a British gunner on one of the taskforce ships who shot down one of the Argentine fighters and he was haunted by the image of the plane catching on fire after being hit and was certain when he saw the crash site that there was no way the pilot had survived. But, unbeknownst to him, the pilot, Mariano Velasco, ejected before impact and survived. In 2012, just before the 30th anniversary of the conflict, as part of a project through the BBC programme "Inside Out Yorkshire," he was taken to Velasco's house in Argentina and in a tearjerking moment, these two men from different sides, warmly embraced one another
@alankennedy3747 weren't the Falklands uninhabited until the British settled there? As far as claims go, I think that's pretty valid. Only the birds living there have a better claim
Thank you for the great content, keep it up. Your video’s are always a great watch. Greetings from the Netherlands
Thank you so much for the support!
That is literally the most brilliantly illustrated video of the Falklands War I have ever seen. You really do deserve the praise you get for this. I couldn't be any more impressed than I am. If I were to pick the best video I have seen in the last ten years, this one would take the prize. Thank you.
What an incredibly well produced documentary. I’m genuinely blown away by the level of detail. Thank you and please keep up this fascinating work.
My granddad was a seaman in one of the british transports in this war. He never spoke much about it but i remember he once told about having a bomb land on his ship, bounce off a mast, and punch a hole in the ship’s hull before landing in the water. I guess it was one of those faulty bombs, that fortunately spared his life.
Rest in peace, granddad
They weren't faulty, they were fuzed incorrectly, set up for too high a drop.
So when the drop doesn't come, the bombs don't arm.
Unfortunately the BBC announced to the whole world what the problem was and that's why the bombs worked on Coventry and Galahad.
Loose lips _literally_ sank ships 🤬
My father was in the Welsh Guard that was sent to the Falklands. He filmed almost everything there to the point his original film and and diaries of his time there was pretty much given its own section in the British Military Museum’s Falkland exhibition that they are creating. I don’t know if the channel owner looks at comments but if you would like I can send you a copy
can i get a copy ?
You should upload it
Thanks to your Dad for his service.
If you upload pls post the link here tyvm
We, from Argentina, want to see these! Best regards from Ushuaia - Patagonia Argentina
Happy holidays! Excellent channel! Thanks for all your efforts at fairness, accuracy, clarity, and great animations!
It still blows my mind that sinking a enemy warship during a war of aggression is seen as a controversial issue
The thing is that wasn't a declaración if war that wew commin aa until this war more or less.
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@@PlaDroid da fuq
@@PlaDroiddid you suffer a stroke half way through typing that comment?
When it's a conservative in power the media will try to make a "controversy" out of literally anything.
Wow!
Over the years I've watched many histories of the Falkland Islands War. And I lived through it.
Most histories have focused, mainly, on the land war with lots of details and footage of the landing at Goose Harbor through victory at Stanley.
This provides hiorical context, and all the happenings before the British attack/s. Nice!
Best production I've seen. Ever.
Thanks.
What a fantastic video, very well written and informative. The only thing that would of been worth a mentioning was the Vulcan bombing mission against the port stanley airfield. The amount of tankers and air to air refueling to get that far was just insane.
Loved the video and love the channel!
It is fantastic! If you want, there was a video on it by The Operations Room a few years ago if you look for it.
He didn't go into detail on it, but it looks like there was a graphic showing the Vulcan bombing at 32:12
The country that killed more than any other during the war was the French...
Tankers refuelling tankers was just insane on it's own. I've seen a documentary on the whole flight plan and the refuelling requirements and only the RAF could have come up with it!
The Blackbuck Vulcan raid was militarily insignificant and the filmmaker was probably right to quickly brush over it without going into detail about the huge effort behind the scenes that went into the mission.
Argentina on the sinking of the Belgrano, "A treacherous act of armed aggression" from the country that hadn't declared war but invaded the Falkland islands and blew up a barracks in Stanley where they beleived nearly 100 marines were stationed and were asleep...
Argentina's ruling junta of the time were treacherous scumbags, but as both the video and other posters have pointed out, the Belgrano's captain and Argentina's military in general conducted themselves honorably even when their rulers were pushing for worse...
Accuse your enemy of exactly what your doing
@@wheneggsdrop1701 happens in life more often than not
Britain and their colonialism ^ ^
@@StraightOuttaPaddock Protecting their rightful land is colonialism to you? Not too bright
It"s interesting to see that Thatchers decision wasn't so cut and dried from a start and there was lot of hesitation. From other documentaries you get a feeling like as she was sending ships the moment the Argentinians started barely thinking about invading Falklands.
I think something that is underplayed a lot is just what a colossal political risk Thatcher was taking in sending the task force. If it had been a disaster (which it easily could have been), it would have brought her government down
The mad cow had been told a year before that this was Argentinian plan by the Chilian. She did nothing except order the scrapping of HMS Ark Royal, the sale of HMS Invincible to the Australians and the sale of a LSD to Argentina which fell through. She then ordered the scrapping of the Ice Class Patrol ship HMS Endurance!
@@historigraphHi. I'm Chilean. Good content. About Thatcher, she was forced by the circumstances: 1) If she didn't do anything, she was a political cadaver walking. 2) If she sent the Task Force, it could or could not end in disaster. There is a better prospect of political survival with number 2) if you think it very rationally. But in the moment, the tension, fear and shock can cloud our own judgement.
@@historigraph I'm sure her office also had to take into account how this would play out on the world stage remember this was during the Cold War and Argentina was a communist run country. The Cuban missile crisis was still fresh in people's minds, the few near launch threats on both sides, and the Soviets we're eerily quiet through all of this. This was a very dangerous global chess board.
@@jon759 Argentina wasn't run by communists or a Soviet ally, on the contrary, the junta was officially anti-communist and an ally of United States.
This is perhaps the most comprehensive documentary I have seen on the falklands war. Nicely done!
@@TheRealLordLuck you clearly haven't seen many. It's 15 minutes long and it's the most comprehensive?
The attention to detail is akin to an autopsy of this war and I’m not kidding I found this mesmerising
Huge congratulations to the team that made this …. It’s quite simply breathtaking and I don’t say that lightly
That was one of the best and most comprehensive accounts of the Falkland’s war I have ever seen. RIP all the brave men on both sides who lost their lives - what a tragedy.
1,5h video about Falklands? What a delightful gift
I have only known very general and superficial information about the Falkland war, this documentary was the best I could have looked for and found. It kept me captivated like only few documentaries do, so well narrated and presented with the most details possible I feel, as much as from the tactical, technical and human aspect that a war conflict unfortunately brings, but without making viewers get lost in all of those images and numerous information. Very well done, great job!
I knew nothing about this war until I found these videos of yours and Learned so much really appreciate your effort in doing this
Very well done. Love the in depth explanations instead of just summarizing events that defined the battle.
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This is an absolutely brilliant program. You can't overstate how large the Falklands conflict loomed over everyone. There was a real fear here in America as well as elsewhere that the war cold result in a power shift that would send Argentina into alleginment with the Soviets and broaden the USSR's influence. Of course that didn't happen but there was no way to know this at the time. An excellent documentary of a major historical event.
Argentina would never ever alingn with communists, at that time actually our military forces were working closely with USA to fight communist guerrilla in Argentina.
Our government in Argentina is and was deeply anticommunist. It had never aligned with the Soviet Union while the United States allowed them to conquer and enslave half of Europe.
This is by far the best Falklands documentary I have ever watched. I like how you identify the ranks in the native languages. Good job all around!
Earned a subscription with this one, I've spent a lot of time in the Falklands and this video is accurate, respectful and beautifully made
This was the best documentary I have seen on the conflict. Absolutely fantastic work!
Thank you for this documentary. Well put together and detailed. Respect from Jamaica 🇯🇲
Nice video as a former marine 45 cdo Falklands veteran good to see the bigger picture will always miss the guys we lost
Soy argentino mis respetos para los qe murieron de ambos bandos
Absolutely outstanding work.. better than any documentary I've seen on the war.. brilliant lads
Excellent documentary. I was in the Falklands/Malvinas for the first time in December this year. Your research and delivery is just fantastic. The animations are super smooth and insightful.
It’s called the FALKLANDS, you don’t include irrelevant outdated translations of any other country alongside their REAL name, do you? So why do you feel the need to disrespect the brave fighters for Falkland freedom? Don’t be scared of seething argies and anti western Russian bots
This was a great documentary, I greatly enjoyed it. I was in the Falklands working for the British Antarctic Survey 5 years after the war and decided one day to walk 40km from Port Stanley to the top of Mount Kent and back. I almost walked through an uncleared Argentinian minefield on the return! The captain wasn't very happy with me because I was late back to the RRS John Biscoe.
Lucky you didn't kill yourself
Your documentary about this concise war was exceptional, a superb incorporation of graphics and historical footage. I thoroughly appreciated this summary.
captivating and well made, one of the best falklands docs ive seen! And lots of info ive never known before. bloody well done.
Absolutely amazing video on this interesting conflict. Massive respect to those on both sides who gave their lives for their country. Well done lads
I like the short and snappy style of your normal videos. It allows precise access to anything I feel like watching and is very accessible before sleeping. That being said, if anyone deserves to and has the capacity to make documentaries of this size- which still is quite short honestly- it would be you. I hope you continue the longer documentaries and hope you are still enjoying this project.
This is the most comprehensive,clear and entertaining documentary on the Falklands war I’ve seen. Commentary, graphics and film footage is just brilliantly balanced. Clearly and awful amount of time and research has been made. Thank you . 👍🏴🇬🇧🏴
You didn't need to qualify that "Argentina had severe economic problems" statement by saying "at the time".
You kid, but they were doing very well for themselves earlier in the century. Well enough to own multiple battleships :)
@@Freyja666yeah but the world’s consumers eventually got fed up with tinned corned beef and stopped buying it.
@@Freyja666 so, 80 years earlier?
@@jacaredosvudu1638 i'm just pointing out that 'at the time' is a fair statement :)
@@Freyja666 ships bought from us
The best historical film or documentary I have ever seen. EXCELENT. CONGRATULATIONS. Greetings from Mexico City.
In New York I watched this intently on TV every day at the time. Everyone I knew was rooting for the Brits. Still, this documentary filled in so much information that was omitted from typical TV sources...great job! Best part: Democracy won in both countries!
And boy look how entertaining that democracy has been 😂, Boris the bumbling idiot, rishi sunak, Liz truss's nightmare, former pm on the cabinet as a lord, and Javier milei as Argentinas president!
This is THE best tactical breakdown of the conflict I have ever watched. Very, very well done to the producers.
I couldn't put this video down. 10/10
min max latvia pls :3
Such a great documentary. As an American, I had heard this was a quick action wherein the British took the island in a day or two with the Argentines surrendering en masse at the first signs of hostilities. I had no idea there were such significant action and losses on both sides. A short war to be sure, but this documentary did an outstanding job of helping me understand just how harrowing this must have been for both militaries. Thank you!
Quite astonishing how quickly Britain was able to pull together a fleet to retake the Falklands. Well done!
its argentina man.... that wasnt even a challenge for the UK
@@bafa000don’t down play Argentina, they did pretty well for a country that still used world war 2 vessels mainly along with old used vehicles and aircraft
This is absolutely superb - the detail and the context of the conflict are welded together so well plus the detailed insight behind the various battles is illuminating - it didn’t feel long at any point either - thank you so much for creating this for us.
Thoroughly enjoyable! Also significant was the support of Chilean gorvernment of moving some of their troops to the border, forcing Argentina to keep strong army groups home, as a precaution.
2 or so years prior, Argentina was posturing to go to war with Chile for some islands in the patagonia, so...not so strange that Chile sided with the british in this conflict.
Britain and Chile have always been friends
Ah I didn't realize that. I was wondering why the Argentine garrison on the Falklands seemed so small. I would have fortified that place like nobody's business to make Britain really have to work for taking the islands back. But if there was a feisty Chile in the picture... makes sense!
@@Eggnog18 as an Argentine I can tell you that our army back in the 80s, and even nowadays, is small, unprepared and unexperienced. Our government, for some weird reason, thought that since the world and the UK were going through bad economic and political times we would have the upper hand.
Politics aside, and whether you think the islands are british or argentine, I think we can all agree our government was delusional and we never stood a chance against a first world powerhouse like the UK army.
La traición de chile Perú estubo con argentina
Thank you so much for this video. I can honestly say that this is THE best documentary on the Falkland's War I have yet seen. You gave a perfect balance of tactics, with history, with inserts of relevant footage of the time and war. I did not get distracted from your video once; it was that engaging. During the entire video I had the Falkland Islands called up on Google earth and I was looking at the terrain, distances and the topography of the scene as you described it. Again, thank you so much.
The Belgrano was formally the American USS Phoenix which was present at Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941.
Yes indeed, I actually just wrote the book "Phoenix & Belgrano: The Life and Death of a Warship" covering it.
I believe "formerly" is the word you're looking for.
That's awesome info. It was fayed that it will at the hand of the British at Falkland. What a fateful day.
American here! I'd never done any historic research on the Falklands War until running across your doc!
This is a great piece of film, and I've gotta say the archive footage you put together was absolutely incredible to see! Argentine fast-movers METERS overhead of British warships and a news crew is shooting the footage as it's happening within arms reach, ground combat footage of the exact event you're discussing, and my absolute favorite, a British Carrier coming home flanked on all sides by celebrating civilian vessels!
This is as much of an "era piece" for that age of TV Media as it is a war documentary. Excellent work!
I’ve been looking for a good documentary on the Falkland conflict for a while. I’m so glad I found this! Great work.
When there were people calling for Pinochet's arrest for crimes against his people, Thatcher opposed it, saying he had helped the UK greatly. This implied Chile had tied up Argentine forces during the Falklands campaign
Iirc pinochet allowed the SAS to launch a covert mission from Chile to seek out and destroy Exocet missiles that Argentina had purchased from France and were the biggest threat to the task force.
This was a secret that wasn’t made public for decades as Pinochet was supposed to be neutral.
Don’t quote me on any of that as I’m saying this from memory but that is my understanding , most of the history books don’t document this as it didn’t come out for literally decades.
Chile gave the UK important intelligence, plus sent back British troops who attacked Argentina. This documentary doesn't talk about it but a helicopter dropped off SAS on the Argentine mainland to cause trouble. But because the helicopter was damaged the flight crew destroyed it themselves and then surrendered themselves to Chile at the border. They were quickly returned home.
The SAS carried out their mission with thousands of Argentine soldiers hunting for them. Once the mission was done they burnt their uniforms and destroyed their equipment, then put on civillian clothes and crossed over to Chile on fake passports before flying home on a commercial flight.
Apparently Australia offered the Brits that Australian navy was ready to come to the fight too, and were told that their help was not required. Australians must LOVE warfare, they seem to have been in every war they can.
Well especially when Her Majesty's subjects are threatened. We've always got your backs mate. But I think the Kiwi's sent HMNZS Canterbury to the Indian Ocean to relive a Royal Navy ship so the Poms could have more ships ready for the war. Those sheep shaggers are a dependable lot.
Nah, the Aussies just understand the true meaning of the word ally, same as the Kiwis and the Canadians!
I read somewhere online that the Australians offered nothing militarily, but did offer to give a few Falkland Islanders, Australian residency!..
What a silly comment ! Australia are our friends you idiot ! I would hope that we would offer help to them in a similar situation !
Some year's later when former NZ PM Robert Muldoon was on a British Airways flight the pilot announced that he was on board. Most of the passengers stood up and gave him a standing ovation.@@davids5566
Thanks!
Everyone knows not to touch America’s boats, but equally important is to not touch England’s rock collection.
16:40 fair play to our Royal Marines, might not have been a winnable fight but they still went well above and beyond
The British Major screwed up. His trying to cover all the beaches around the airport meant he didn't have enough forces to defend anywhere effectively. That's a mistake a butter bar would do and a Major's should know better. It was REALLY DUMB!
P.S. Being on the defensive you're expected to defeat a force three times your size since you get to set up the kill boxes, mine fields etc. and do it from cover.
@@readhistory2023 he defended against the (correct) assumed landing ground, while not committing war crimes like setting land mines. It was a bold but effective move by the Argentinians to go after political buildings but it worked. I don't see your solution working (legally, and) better than his.
There's only so much you can do with a few dozen troops
@@readhistory2023 wtf is a butter bar 😂
@@UsuallyTrollingUS slang term for a 2LT, as the rank is a golden bar.
@@atfjacknz doesn’t he know that this isn’t an American war
I was a junior in college when the Falkands War started. It was all over the news at the time, but the level of detail presented in this video was never shown. This was thoroughly interesting and informative. Great work!
Excellent work. Although I lived through the conflict, and saw it on the news every day in my lower 6th year, I've never seen it in one go before. It makes a lot more sense to me now and I really appreciate the effort that went into making this complete analysis. Thank you.
I literally just binged your entire falklands series last night what is this timing!
That's nothing. I saw a sheep yesterday as I was eating a penguin biscuit. Blew my mind 🙄
I love these, somehow far more evocative than typical footage docs. 👍🇬🇧
Malvinas 🇦🇷
@@MrRandom9 Not any more.. 📚🇬🇧
What does that mean in english? We found it before agrentina was a thing. Never has been, never will be yours.
Great, another excuse to rewatch this series! I enjoy your video so much, fantastic work on these and making history fun. 🎉
This is an exceptional documentary. The use of first rate animated graphics and maps to clearly display each stage of the conflict is first rate. The commentary is clear concise and highly informative- without needless rhetorical flourishes you find in many documentaries where the narrator "gets in the way" of the story telling. So much content squeezed into the comprehensive presentation.
The simplicity of presentation makes it easy to follow and understand with a clear geographical overview that allows the viewer to see everything in context. All of this skilfully conceals the amount of planning and painstaking research in preparing this feature length production.
One of the best documentaries I've seen about any conflict!
This was so well made! Keep up the good work, This is the first I have stumbled upon this channel! subscribed!!
Absolutely well done! I have only ever heard bits and pieces about this conflict though my life, this video explains it very, very well! Thank you!
Awesome documentation! You should have mentioned Operation Black Buck (the bombing of Stanley airfield in several long-range operations by the British). Very interesting episode.
This was fantastic. Respectful to both sides and important context given to each stage of the conflict. You should do more long form videos.
One of the men who rescued those SAS Soldiers stuck on the Glacier was Chris Parry, and I highly recommend anyone interested in the topics to listen to one of his talks on his experience during the War. Very insightful and hilarious at times.
For clarity, Parry was one of the crew, but he wasn’t the pilot or the one in command of the mission
@@historigraph fair point. Edited it to "one of the men"
'Britain's very own d-day'. Britain already had a d-day. It was d-day.
yeah but they had to share it with... canada
It’s kinda amazing to see exactly how many instances of bad luck and poor decisions had to line up for the Sheffield to be sunk.
Combine that with the skill and technology available to the Argentinian pilots, and you end up with a ship that specializes in Anti-Air getting sunk by two planes.
British military technology was pretty crap, some Harriers (GR3) had no radars, the tech on the RN destroyers wasn't up to missile defence, some ships were basically fireworks ready to burn. The Blowpipe was only successful against a Harrier (the Argentines had some).
@@EdMcF1 Royal Navy doctrine before the Falklands War was to monitor the GIUK gap and hunt Soviet submarines not to fight a expeditionary war thousands of miles away. Royal Navy AA missiles were designed to shoot down high altitude Soviet bombers not low flying attack aircraft.
The fleet had lots of anti submarine warfare frigates but no large AA destroyers except HMS Bristol. The capabilities of Type 42 destroyer got nerfed by defence cuts
@@UsuallyTrollingStop copeing for the Brits, the Glasgo did their job perfectly and the Sheffield had every chance to know they were coming.
@@3magikarpinamansuit281 - perfectly valid explanation
- dumbass: “sToP CoPiNg”
@@EdMcF1 it was that crap that nearly 100 Argentine jets were shot down. 28 of them in dogfights with the harriers, without loss.
Superb documentary! Genuinely better than a lot of what you'd get on TV with a much higher budget behind it.
When Britain said "Anything going inside this zone will be removed", they never said "everything outside this zone is safe"
Good and objetive documentary, a classmate from my school die on the Belgrano Cruise...short and brutal war ..honor
I actually was never taught this nor did I ever go out of my way to learn about it until this video. Good work. I was rooting for the Brits the entire time. Glad I wasn't let down.
Brilliant work man, Congratulations!
Amazing documentary!! Very well done.
Would like to see more like this
Absolutely stunning documentation! Nicely done.
I like this long form of your videos, especially while flying.
Cheers from a currently airborne subscriber.
Excellent video. I was just 11 when the war broke out. It was the first war I vividly remember. I was in the US, but since it was a Latin American country, the sense was that Argentina had a right to Las Islas Malvinas in my neighborhood in LA. I’ve read numerous books and watched numerous documentaries, and this doc was one of the best. great job.
Those scrap metal workers certainly gave us an advantage by bringing the conflict forward. Had the AAF got its full complement of Etendards and Exocet the task force would have had a very difficult task. Thank you for posting 😊
An excellent look of the Falklands conflict. One aspect that I thought needed a little more of a mention was 'Operation Black Buck' where a lone RAF Vulcan bomber did an 8000 mile round trip to successfully bomb the airfield at Port Stanley, which dissuaded the Argentinians from basing some of their more capable aircraft there. Also not mentioned that the Argentinians possessed and flew Mirage 3 fighter jets, which had twice the speed of the Harriers and a much higher ceiling. 3 Harriers were lost, including pilots in the conflict: 1 by enemy ant-aircraft fire and 2 in a collision in bad weather. No Harriers were shot down by Argentinian aircraft. I also believe an SAS troop was also lost in a helicopter crash in the sea. (Not 100% sure of that). Although a brilliant UK victory, as the head of the UK ground forces said later: "It was a damned close thing".
The Mirage's were barely used as they didn't have air to air refueling. The harriers were shot down by anti air artillery.
@@franciscosansalone*the harrier
There was only one lost to the enemy
A lone Vulcan that set off with 8 Victor tankers to get it there!
@@lordbeaverhistory no, first 10 harriers were lost, not 3.
5 of them shot down by anti air artillery and 5 in accidents.
@@franciscosansalone I believe some Mirage 3s were shot down by Sea harriers. The link is to an extensive three part interview with a Harrier pilot who was there and I'm sure he recounts shooting down a Mirage 3 and only 1 Harrier was brought down by anti-aircraft fire, as I said in my original comment.
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Incredible documentary.
I have read articles and a book and seen a couple different documentaries on this war. (In addition to the newspaper and nightly news broadcasts at the time) Kudos for this video! I never truly understood the campaign as well as I do after watching this. Shiwing the exact location of the British ships hit and the direction and makeup of the attackers was masterful.
This is An Amazing Documentary, brilliant visuals and the detail is stunning, Would you consider covering the Chad-Libyan conflict? I'd believe it would fit your style perfectly.
I have watched many documentaries on this war. This had many details the others hadn't covered. Some of the others had interviews with survivors on both sides. Taken all together this is a very well covered war. The Russo -Ukraine war, if and when it ends, will be more difficult due to the staggering amount of information.
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The scale is much larger indeed.
information, misinformation and disinformation
@@Simon-ry6vx True. Historians will be dining out on this one for decades trying sort out which is which.
Very nice documentary, but you should've also mentioned the bombardment of the islands with Vulcan bombers, it was an amazing feat as well
An amazing, expensive and completely pointless feat in a desperate bid to make the RAF relevant.
@@LondonSteveLee LMAO the RAF doesn't need to prove itself relevant to anyone. It was about getting one last hurrah out of the V Bomber fleet, and sending a message to the Argies.
Excellent summary. Very well done.
This is why, when Argentina faced off against France during the last World Cup, the UK was rooting for France.
First time for anything I suppose.
WRONG.
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I'm not sure if Argentina has many friends.
I wasnt
Fantastic video mate, I really like these longer videos. And to add to it, I have talked to my father about the Falklands war and he remembers that there was a real fear among Brazilians at the time, and that we would be caught in the crossfire. At the time Brazil had good relations with the British and some moved for a Brazilian assit on the British side of the conflict. There was even a jet that had to make an emergency landing at a Brazilian airport.
We still do have good relations 🇧🇷 🇬🇧
😂😂😂 Chile 🇨🇱🇨🇱 not 🇧🇷
??? No one in Argentina wanted to attack Brazil
I will NEVER understand the uproar over the Belgrano. It was a naval vessel in the service of a nation at war. Submarines are SUPPOSED to sink enemy naval vessels wherever and whenever they find them. All this "it was treacherous aggression" and "outside the area" and "sailing away" is completely irrelevant. The ONLY thing that should be able to save a naval vessel from destruction during war is if its a hospital ship...or surrendering. Anything else should not be a surprise to anyone.
yea. britain never bitched about the ships she lost.
@manos-mf7uj it would be like the Japanese lodging a formal complaint that the US sunk their carriers at Midway as they were sailing away from the island...
@@manos-mf7ujyeah well they were inside the exclusion zone, so even though I agree, I have to point out that those were two different situations
it was a military junta, what else would you expect? it's like complaining that the nazis weren't always 100% honest. it's called propaganda
@lecooldude it wasn't just the Argentinians that got butthurt about it though, it became this big international incident for some weird reason and Britain took a shitload of flak for it, like it was some kind of warcrime.
You know,,, this is an extremely well made video here. Very detailed and able to convey some of the emotions that were stirred through out all of it! Cheers !
Quite surprised that the captain of the Sheffield didn't end up in front of a military court to be honest.
Agreed, seems like egregious incompetence on his end, for if he had his ship ready like Glasgow, I don't think Sheffield would have been lost, maybe still hit, but less damage, or better damage mitigation. Honestly, the captain's actions should be criminal though why satellite communications were allowed, which interfered with its primary duty of air defense, could be a reflection of poor command by the Admiral too if allowed by the Task Force commander in prior orders.
Type 42's were the cheapest design option- basically a frigate sized ship with a 4.5" gun, a chopper, torpedo tubes, and a sea dart launcher with 22 missiles. As designed they had no CWIS, no short range interceptors, and in 1982 the satellite linkup did interfere with other things apparently.
They were upgraded after the war with close in weapons systems, and other vital additions. But their small size basically limited them to simple air defense platforms with gun capacity, yet they proved versatile and good ships despite these drawbacks.
Exeter at the Falklands and Gloucester in Desert Storm achieved dramatic missile intercepts, and before she got sunk at the Falklands Coventry did stellar work defending the invasion force.
Still a really stupid decision to scrap them instead of putting them in reserve or Heaven forbid keeping them around to actually get a bigger Fleet- with VLS tubes and new radars they'd still be useful ships to have around (as would type 22 and type 23 frigates, and the Invincibles...)
Sadly the ships are pretty obsolete, even as reserve ships. They don't have the power capacity for VLS without going through a complete engine refit, which at that point it's not cost effective. Nothing corrodes like sea water either, ships are just doomed to eventually 'rust', the older the ship the more it costs to keep maintained from manpower to material.
Most of the time a ship is retired is because it lacks the power capacity for the newest upgrades, that's why ships have been designed today for next gen technology now that we kind of know what it's going to be. The power draw for a modern data and sensor suite is just absurd. It's why the American ships like the Ticonderoga and Arleigh Burke are so good, because they have the hull volume to have had so many upgrades! British ships are comparatively tiny compared to their USN counterparts.@@robruss62
For propaganda purposes I assume.
The captain was a submariner and second in command was a helicopter pilot!
Great documentary. I was surprised that the Black Buck raid was not touched on. Thanks for the good work.
yeah I was wondering about that.
It WAS touched on - there was even a Vulcan graphic used. I can’t see any need for the narrator to have gone any deeper though as the raid was ineffectual and, whilst an interesting side-story for RAF history buffs, would be of little interest to a global audience wanting a concise overview of the war itself compressed into a watchable 90 or so minutes.
A very good production. Be proud of it. Well done. 👍
Wow.. I rarely write comments, or watch anything that capture my complete interest and involvement for 90 minutes. What a superb documentary. Well done, and thank you for this very informative video on the falklands conflict