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@exRAF_Al Sadly not a Brit thing yet, the French are experts at disrupting the state.

Passive non compliance.. thoughts?

@ARandomKaren @RDPHistory Booby traps and mines were claiming victims weeks after the surrender.

@RDPHistory Omg. You never hear these stories. Each and every one of our service men and women are hero.

July 13th 1982: At RAF Stanley, a horrific accident occurs as a GR3 skids on the ice and a faulty micro-switch sends two sidewinders firing off, one of which veers into a group of Welsh Guardsmen clearing snow. Eleven are wounded, five lose limbs... 1/3 upi.com/Archives/1982/…

@RDPHistory I remember it well, a bloody mess. Luckily I had several tourniquets in the vehicle first aid kits. Like a scene from MASH, helicopters stacked up to pick up casualties.

@HannahIamthest1 With toilet, ACU, NAAFI trolley, hardship allowance.

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@GarethJennings3 @RogerTrueman1 @RDPHistory Mick Jennings?

@dwbrown57 @RogerTrueman1 @RDPHistory My dad was TCW in the Falklands. You probably know him...

March 29th 1982: RFA Fort Austin arrives at Gibraltar to take on stores and to be ready to sail south to support HMS Endurance and the task force which is now assembling...

@RDPHistory Spent a few days in Rio, VC10 picked us up and we flew straight to Brize and were served beer on an RAF flight!!!

@RDPHistory turned off runway, stopped, abandoned plane. port side wheels were smoking hot, one spark would've ignited the lot. as we were running from the herc armed soldiers stopped us and pushed us back to the herc, until they realised the problem.

June 24th 1982: The first extended range Hercules landing occurs at Stanley. There are six such converted C-130s, each fitted with additional 825-gallon fuel tanks from old Andover and Argosy transport aircraft, to increase their range... 1/4

@TomPen18160 @RDPHistory Worse than the rotting potatoes from Freetown?

@RDPHistory Also known as the ship that farts as the smell was horrible,I was on the St Edmund which was anchored next to her in Stanley

June 18th 1982: As Argentine prisoners begin returning home, so one last act remains in the wider war: the recovery of the South Sandwich Islands. From South Georgia, HMS Yarmouth and RFA Olmeda are headed there, to meet HMS Endurance and the tug Salvageman on the 19th.

@RDPHistory Drove a 1 ton rover and trailer off the Bezant onto a mexefloat, driver side tyres right on the edge. Was about to get out the passenger side when a 4 ton truck blocked me in. Had a quick nap until we arrived at the jetty.

June 17th 1982: MV Contender Bezant anchors in Port William off Stanley and begins unloading her impressive cargo of stores and helicopters, including much-needed Chinooks, Wessex and spare GR3s.

@MahyarTousi The Persians Return (free house)

I will be opening the first ever British pub in Tehran. What should we call it?

@RDPHistory I remember seeing these on Stanley airfield around 15th June 82.

June 1st 1982: The Exocet launcher, dubbed "ITB" or Instalacion de Tiro Berreta, has been ingeniously created with firing & guidance systems taken from a warship, old cathode ray equipment, spliced wires, an old telephone plugboard and more, and is quickly hidden away in town...

@RDPHistory from the MV St. Edmund daily news letter. We were near Cape Verde on route to Freetown.

May 25th: Atlantic Conveyor, loaded with fuel and ammunition, erupts into flames and is soon abandoned. Six Wessex Helicopters, three Chinooks and a Lynx are lost along with tonnes of supplies, stores and spares, and twelve men are killed as the ship is rapidly engulfed in fire.

@CliveWardauthor Winters were always bitter. On the flip side, summers could be equally taxing.

Sennybridge, or should I say ‘Sennyfridge’. All the seasons in an hour. It was so bad that my socks are still wet thirty years later. You knew when you arrived at Senyfridge camp and you were issued with Artic ration packs, in the summer, that something wasn’t quite right. I'm sure a few toes have been left there in that sheep- shit capital of the world. Once you hit the cattle grid you were wet till ENDEX. There were suicidal sheep everywhere you went, even they didn’t want to be there. You woke up in the morning and they were there, they would even share your gonk bag if you let them. Not me though. Fond memories of sheep, it is said that shooting a sheep was a rite of passage. Sadly, so many sheep were killed on the live firing ranges. That’s probably why I never touched lamb stew or lamb roast ever again, fearing that they were so full of lead I would get lead poisoning. Sennybridge is another man’s Otterburn, Salisbury plain, Stamford, or Soltau, but which one was worse? It would seem that Sennybridge is the one place that most squaddies talk about. We all go on about how cold and wet it was at Sennybridge, but I know one thing, I’m sure a lot of us would give up our comfortable life to go back and do it all again...or maybe not...in fact definitely not...what the hell am I talking about?! Please share to your friends From the book BULLIES AND BULSHIT clivewardauthor.com UK kindle price £3.51 or free on Kindle Unlimited also available in paperback price £7.01 amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QBQFPKL/…

@ElecNotes Handy, I can double check my cap values before ordering.

Capacitor Conversion Chart & Calculator: uF to nF, pF to nF . . . Capacitor values may be expressed in µF, nF and pF and value conversions often need to be made between them, nF to µF, nF to pF and vice versa. How often do you get stuck or get the conversion wrong by a factor of ten or more? Capacitors are a very common form of electronic component and capacitor values are generally expressed in terms of microfarads, µF (sometimes uF when a micro character is not available), nanofarads, nF and picofarads, pF. Often there is an overlap between these multipliers. For example 0.1µF can also be expressed as 100nF, and there are many more examples of this type of notation confusion. It can sometimes be confusing when a circuit diagram or electronic components list may mention the value in terms of picofarads for example and the listings for an electronic component distributor of electronic components store may mention it in another. Check out my calculator: electronics-notes.com/articles/basic…

2) Last preparations for Operation Black Buck. It will require two Vulcans (one as backup) 13 Victors and 1 Nimrod, with 19 refuellings, 1.5 million lbs of aviation fuel and twenty-one 1,000lb bombs per Vulcan. Here is the refuelling plan: all worked out on a Casio calculator.

@SandraWeeden @LVSabbarton Strong winds blowing electricity in the wrong direction.

And so it begins………

@AndySmi40533249 @RDPHistory Is that, roughly, where the TRALA was?

@RDPHistory I think the graphic makes it clear how implausible this report is.

April 29th 1982: At 04.00 an Argentine A-4C Skyhawk takes off on a recon mission, scouting north of the Falklands. Flight Lt. Daniel Manzotti, sights; “a large formation of vessels with their lights on, and in an inverted-V formation" reporting "The size of the fleet is scary".

@amanbhogal Delivery to our embassy?