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After almost three years tilted and sunken in Argentina's main naval base, Puerto Belgrano, the British built missile destroyer, 'ARA Santisima Trinidad' was finally refloated. The plan is to ...
Last Friday, 2nd May Argentina held a remembrance ceremony of the sinking of ARA General Belgrano, which was the largest single loss of lives during the Falkland Islands conflict of 1982.The ...
Key Points Originally mainly anti-ship weapons, submarines have developed into multi-role platforms. The only nuclear submarine known to have sunk an enemy vessel, the Argentine cruiser Belgrano ...
General Belgrano did have certain advantages against modern naval vessels. Her 6″ guns would have made very short work of any British ships unfortunate enough to wander within twelve or so miles.
It may be 30 years since the Argentine cruiser Belgrano was sunk in the first British attack of the Falklands war, but for survivors it might have been yesterday.
Two torpedoes were fired from the vessel at the General Belgrano cruiser on May 2, 1982; The attack led to the deaths of 323 Argentine sailors and controversy has raged ever since; ...
Top secret papers are set to prove that the warship Belgrano was heading into the Falkland's exclusion zone when it was sunk, and not heading back to port as the Argentinians claimed.
Tracking the General Belgrano. On May 1, 1982, HMS Conqueror’s Command Chris Wreford-Brown spotted the Argentinean warship – the former U.S. Navy Brooklyn-class World War II cruiser USS ...
Earlier this year the ship's captain, Hector Bonzo, admitted that the Belgrano's decision to sail away from the Task Force on the morning of 2 May was only a temporary manoeuvre.
Originally mainly anti-ship weapons, submarines have developed into multi-role platforms. The only nuclear submarine known to have sunk an enemy vessel, the Argentine cruiser Belgrano, during the ...
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