The Falklands Guns - Wing Commander Mike Fonfe

The Oerlikon twin 35mm anti-aircraft gun was the one weapon in the Argentine armoury which had a major impact on the British air campaign during the Falklands Conflict in 1982. Indeed, General Mario Benjamin Men ndez, transient Argentine Governor of Las Islas Malvinas, proudly boasted that: The anti-aircraft gunners were the only Argentine forces on the Malvinas not to be beaten directly by the British and can take pride in being the first and the last to fire on the enemy.'Following the Argentine... Zobrazit více