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After nearly a month of sailing, the British task force finally reached the vicinity of the Falklands, and before that, they had already fought a small war.

South Georgia, more than a thousand kilometers from the Falkland Islands, the British Antarctic research site, was recaptured by the British by force! At the same time, in order to support the war in the direction of the Falkland Islands, the British Royal Air Force began to station at Widiawick Air Force Base on Ascension Island in the Atlantic, including McDonnell Douglas Ghost FGR.2 fighter-bombers and 44 Squadron Vulcan bombers, as well as a Victory air tanker group. Once the war began, it would be much closer to take off from here to bomb than from the British mainland.

Standing on the bridge and looking at the surrounding water, Admiral John was also excited, and now, he has finally arrived here! However, out of caution, the aircraft carrier group did not approach the waters within 300 nautical miles of the Falkland Islands to avoid being attacked by Argentine air force fighters, and now, with their arrival, the war has officially begun.

The first to attack was not the Royal Navy, but the Royal Air Force, and the Royal Air Force Vulcan bomber group that took off from Asunción Island, after a long flight and several refueling in the air, was about to fly over the Falkland Islands to carry out an air raid on the air base in Port Stanley, the most important island on the island!

Vulcan bomber, a bizarre-shaped ****** bomber produced in the 50s, with air intake at the root of the wings, like a big bird flying in the sky, this is a Vulcan bomber for medium-range long-range European nuclear warfare missions, which can carry 21 1,000-pound bombs plus four Shrike anti-radar missiles. The amount of ammunition is definitely not small, however, the range of this kind of aircraft is not high, and it only flies 4,000 kilometers with no load, and now it takes more than 6,000 kilometers for a single trip, and at the same time, because it is fully loaded, the entire flight must be refueled at least 4 times in the air. However, their air tankers are modified Victory bombers with insufficient fuel capacity, so they also need to carry out multiple in-flight refueling with Victory tankers of the same class when carrying out support. In this way, a spectacular spectacle was formed, and two Vulcan bombers needed eleven air tankers to support one mission. At the same time, a single raid took 16 hours and a total of 120,000 kilometers round trip.

Even with all kinds of difficulties, the British army will do its best to overcome them! This is a war that Britain cannot afford to lose! If it loses, Britain will completely lose its status as a great power and will lose any right to speak in the international community!

At the same time, Admiral John was slightly relieved that the fleet of the Soviets had long since disappeared, and since then, it has not appeared, and in the war to capture the Falklands, there was no Soviet naval trouble, which is really good news.

With the spectacular bomber group overhead, the first air raid is finally about to kick off, Admiral John is full of anticipation in his heart, in fact, bombers carrying ordinary bombs, the bombing effect is not good or too good, but this is what they want!

After the bombers bombed several times and blew up the Port Stanley Air Force Base, their own formation could continue to approach and prepare for a landing operation! At that time, they will have to stay close to the Falkland Islands before they can complete the attack.

Damn the Flying Fish! If before the war, the French did not sell Exocet missiles to Argentina, so much the best! Although the French swore that although they sold Exocet, the later technicians had not yet arrived, and the Argentines would not be able to operate the Exocet missiles at all, and the possibility of them attacking with Exocet missiles was close to zero.

Even so, Admiral John has always been wary of Exocet missiles, because he knows how vulnerable his air defense system is.

The main force of air defense, the Type 42 destroyer, uses the Sea Javelin missile, which is the most powerful missile system of its own side, and now, this missile has shown a serious deficiency in its low-altitude defense capability.

So, what if it's a Exocet missile that flies? How confident is it that such a missile, which has a minimum altitude of less than five meters, or even drops to two or three meters at the end, will it be able to intercept it?

Admiral John looked out, several air defense destroyers, lined up at the outermost part of the formation, and the Type 42 destroyer, the Shelfield, sailed at the front of the entire formation, in the style of standard air defense operations.

"From now on, take off the Sea King helicopter and increase the early warning range." Admiral John said.

After all, the Sea Harrier carrier-based aircraft, the narrow nose, can not be equipped with high-power radar, the detection range is similar to the Sea King helicopter, so it is better to directly use the helicopter to warn, and the helicopter take-off and landing is more convenient.

In the 80s, the British Navy began to install the Thorne-EM1 ship search radar on the side of the Sea King helicopter, which can detect and classify small and fast targets in the air and water at a distance of 100 nautical miles under high sea conditions. Increase detection capabilities. It is a pity that this AWACS aircraft was developed only in 85 years of history, and now it is simply impossible to equip the fleet.

Even if a helicopter is sent to increase the warning range, it is more dependent on the visual search of the pilot.

After receiving the order, on the deck of the aircraft carrier Invincible, a Sea King helicopter quickly flew off the deck, and the pilot, a heroic young man, Prince Andrew, the third heir to the throne, followed the aircraft carrier formation and participated in this war together! Now he is a helicopter pilot of the 820 squadron aboard the USS Invincible.

Prince Andrew flew off the deck of the Invincible and flew around the perimeter of the formation, constantly scanning everything around him with the naked eye while the on-board radar detected it.

"Report, the air defense radar on the USS Shelfield missile destroyer detected a suspicious radar wave, which flashed for a fraction of a second before disappearing." On the Invincible, Rear Admiral Woodward received such a report.

Flashed for a fraction of a second? Definitely a false positive! Just two hours ago, there was a radar of the same type with this false alarm, and after repeated inspection, nothing was found at all, only 0.1 second, what if it was dazzling?

"Pick me up the Shelfield, I need to speak to the captain." Maj. Gen. Woodward said. (To be continued.) )