Falklands War

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Britain’s Final Plan To Kill Argentina’s Super Étendards Attack Jets

Britain's last bid to destroy Argentina’s fleet threatening Exocet anti-ship missile-armed combat jets during the Falklands War. The last British bid to destroy Argentina’s Exocet-armed jets was still in rehearsal a day after the fighting ended.

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No single Argentine capability shaped British planning during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict more than the pairing of the Dassault Super Étendard strike fighter and its deadly AM39 Exocet anti-ship missile. Against that threat, the

British launched a series of special forces operations, all with the same objective: kill the Argentine pilots and destroy their aircraft and missiles before they could be used again. Together, the strike fighter and missile pairing had proven to be the biggest threat to the Royal Navy task force that had been sent to recapture the islands.