The Argentines retaliated with ferocity, and when their cruiser General Belgrano was sunk, they immediately deployed, and the very next day they began to send out a large number of fighters!

In the eighties, this most dazzling sea and air battle is about to begin!

This is an era of alternating between the old and the new, and all kinds of advanced guided weapons have not yet been put into use on a large scale, and the most common way is still to use bombs to attack.

And it is not easy to use ordinary bombs to attack the British fleet, for example, the first step is to be able to fly over.

On land-based airfields, fighter planes that take off need to be refueled in the air, but they are not needed at sea.

The Argentine Navy wanted to preserve its strength, so their aircraft carrier May 25 did not intend to go out on a cruise, but it still boldly left its own coastline, and at a distance of 100 nautical miles from the coastline, in the midst of the heavy convoy, it began to counterattack!

This aircraft carrier, which is also the pride of the Argentine Navy, was named this date because it is Argentina's national day. And ironically, this aircraft carrier was actually built by the British.

In that turbulent era, the British shipbuilding industry developed in great strides, and the construction of this giant-class aircraft carrier began in December 1942, which was launched on December 30, 1943, and officially joined the British Navy on January 17, 1945.

However, after that, Germany surrendered, and the British navy began to shrink significantly, and the aircraft carrier was eliminated.

In April 1948, the Dutch Navy purchased the aircraft carrier, which was delivered in May of the same year. After 20 years of use, in October 1968, the Netherlands resold it to Argentina.

After many modifications, the aircraft mainly used the A-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft, the super military flag of later generations, and they have not yet had time to take over.

And not only this aircraft carrier, in the serial of the Argentine Navy, even Type 42 destroyers can be seen.

That's right, the main warships of the British Navy can also be seen in the Argentine Navy, which is even more ironic.

For the British, there was nothing they did not dare to sell, and as soon as World War II ended, turbojet engines were sold to the Soviets, and all in their eyes was money.

The Argentine Navy's purchase of Type 42 destroyers dates back to the Project 3009 frigates of the Vickers company. The design was proposed in the mid-1960s and supported by the British Admiralty. The Argentine Navy also took a keen interest in it.

In May 1968, the Argentine Navy invited an international tender for the construction of two Sea Javelin destroyers. In addition to the requirements for the installation of sea javelins, the tender also has a large number of detailed regulations.

After repeated investigations, on 18 May 1970 Argentina signed a contract with Vickers for the construction of two Type 42 ships, one at the Barro-in Furness shipyard in Vickers and the other at the AFNE naval shipyard in Rio Santiago, Argentina. Vickers supplied the components for the second, and the British Admiralty was responsible for the training of Argentine naval crews. The full cost is £30 million. This was the first time since World War II that Britain had sold new warships of the frigate class or higher to a foreign country.

The British Empire has no money, not only to sell to Argentina, but also to China many times, but China has no money to buy.

The first ARA Type 42 ship, the Hercules, began construction on June 16, 1971, was launched on October 24, 72, delivered on May 10, 76, and commissioned on July 12. But it was tested in England for more than a year, and it arrived in Argentina only on August 20, 77.

The construction of the second "Holy Trinity" began on 10/11/71 and was launched on 11/9/74. Unfortunately, on August 22, 75, it was bombed by left-wing terrorists while it was perched, causing the hull to sink. This was delayed until the beginning of 1981, when it was put into service in July. Arrived in the UK for testing on 24/04/81. Then he remained in England until he suddenly returned home in early '82.

And now, this second ship has not yet been built, but the first one is already in the Argentine naval formation, becoming the main force of their air defense.

On 25 May, the boilers of the aircraft carrier were burning vigorously, black smoke was constantly rising, and the warship was trying to accelerate to a maximum speed of 25 knots, and then, with steam filling the deck, A-4 attack planes took off from the deck.

Today is beautiful.

It is said that ordinary military ships must be able to run at a speed of 30 knots, but the foundation of this aircraft carrier is too weak, and it can only run to 25 knots.

Fortunately, in the waters of Argentina, the west wind has always been fierce, and in the deck wind, one after another fighter planes took off to attack the British Navy!

At the same time, at the land airfields in the rear, the air force also took off fighters, ready to attack the British fleet, compared to the navy planes, because they had to take off from the rear and had to refuel in the air first.

Their air tankers are already waiting in the predetermined airspace.

A-4 Skyhawks, Daggers, Canberra bombers, and Mirage fighters, a huge fleet of aircraft, headed for the British fleet!

Thanks to the E-2 AWACS aircraft, the Argentine fleet was spotted hundreds of kilometers away, and they immediately gave an early warning to the rear.

Take off, take off! The British fleet was also immediately surprised after receiving the early warning, it was obvious that they had reached the most dangerous time!

The whole fleet was speeding up, and on the Ark Royal, the steam was filling, and one after another Tomcat fighters were catapulting into the air, at this time, the bow catapult and the catapult on the beveled deck were ejected almost simultaneously, and there were constantly fighters rising into the air.

And after catapulting a dozen units, the speed of the aircraft carrier came down, and they were forced to stop the ejection and wait for the boiler to provide more energy.

On one side of it, the Invincible Horn stood side by side, a different scene.

The Invincible doesn't have catapults, it doesn't have boilers, it uses 4 Olympus TM3B gas turbines, so don't think about using catapults, there are no additional boilers to provide steam.

Now, it just needs to speed up to full speed.

On the deck, the tail of the Tomcat spewed out a blazing flame and soared from the deck, and when it jumped off the jump deck in front, it almost fell, which looked terrifying.

Although the speed of the release is slow, the aircraft carrier will not slow down and has been releasing fighters all the time, so jumping and catapulting take off have their own benefits.

But in this way, the two aircraft carriers distanced themselves. The whole formation is also getting bigger and bigger.

After taking off from the deck, one after another Tomcat fighters, under the guidance of the early warning planes, rushed towards the distant target, and they wanted to establish the first interception line at a distance of 200 nautical miles outside the aircraft carrier, so as to keep the other side from approaching their own fleet as much as possible.

The entire British naval formation, entered the air defense combat mode.