Kilgore Fella

@RDPHistory Was this the Learjet later downed over west Falkland?

March 19th 1982: An Argentine Learjet fitted with camera pods makes its third pass of the day over the Falklands, before landing and letting off the new head of LADE, Vicecomodoro Gamin, and then accelerates at full speed to take off again without stopping... 1/2

@RDPHistory September? So many more RN ships would have been decommissioned or past the point of recovery by then. Invincible would have been on its way to Australia as an RAN ship and Ark Royal not ready. Only Hermes’ left?

March 19th 1982: On holiday on a beach in Montevideo, Admiral Jose Lombardo, the man responsible for planning the Falklands invasion, set for September, realises that he has been sidestepped by the launch of Op. Alpha early, and runs back up the beach to return to Buenos Aires...