On May 4, 1982, in the South Atlantic, 100 nautical miles north of the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands, a sizable fleet cruised.

British Empire Task Force.

On April 7, the British issued a proclamation to the world: "From 4 o'clock GMT on April 12, the waters around the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) shall be no-sail for 200 nautical miles, and no foreign ships will be allowed to enter." ”

On 28 April, the British went further: "From 11 a.m. GMT on 30 April, the Falkland no-sail zone has been upgraded to a no-sail zone in the air and sea, and all ships and aircraft entering this area will be attacked by British forces." ”

Two days earlier, at 3 p.m. and almost 4 p.m. on May 2, the British nuclear submarine INS Conqueror had torpedoed the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano outside the no-sail zone in the Falklands. The bloody facts proved that the British were not telling Downing Street jokes.

The arc of the task force looked like a large onion, well, a large onion that had been cut in half to be exact.

A large onion over 40 nautical miles in size that has been cut in half.

Adopting this "spicy-eyed" defensive formation, Rear Admiral Woodward, the commander of the fleet, can be said to have racked his brains - after all, the British Imperial Navy lacks a long-range air warning capability at all times and all times.

The three Type 42 Sheffield-class destroyers are the outer layer of the onion, the inner layer is a mixture of older destroyers and frigates, the number is four, and the inner point is the two Type 22 Broadsword-class frigates, all of which are designed to protect the innermost "onion core" - the only two aircraft carriers of the British, HMS Hermes and HMS Invincible.

If you look at the entire task force with the concept of modern football created by the British. Then, the task force came up with a 3-4-2 formation with three Type 42 destroyers as the vanguard, four mixed ships as the midfield, and two Type 22 frigates as the rear guard and goalkeeper.

However, this 3-4-2 formation of "one player sent off at the beginning", no matter how you look at it, does not match the "solid defense......

But there is no way, after all, this is the property that the Royal Navy in the 1980s could only get its hands on.

With the three Type 42 destroyers "Sheffield" on the left, the Coventry on the right, and the "Glasgow" on the right, together serving as the vanguard of the task force, the three good brothers are cleaving the waves in rather difficult sea conditions, and they are about 10 nautical miles away from each other.

"Suspicious signals intercepted! The bearing is 010,10! ”

The electronic warfare operator of the CIC combat intelligence center "USS Glasgow" suddenly reported.

"The radome is accurate!" The head of electronic warfare quickly gave instructions.

The signal did not reappear, the air defense radar did not find anything, everything was as if nothing had happened.

"Glasgow" quickly reported this information to the commander of the air defense of the task force on the flagship "Invincible".

Perhaps it was due to the fact that the nervous Royal Navy boys had been making too many fancy false positives and false reports for some time, and the air defense commander on duty made a judgment that was proved absolutely wrong by later history.

Because he said: "This is a deceptive false signal. ”

In fact, this is one of three radar detection signals issued by the "Revenge Bird", a Super Flag attack aircraft to launch Exocet missiles.

The Neptune propeller electronic warfare reconnaissance aircraft, which provided advance intelligence support to the Super Flag and guided the attack, indicated the exact location of the target for the last time at 10:35: "52 degrees 33 minutes 55 seconds south latitude, 50 degrees 40 minutes 55 seconds west longitude." ”

After the "Revenge Bird" super military flag took off from its base on the Argentine mainland, it has been following the information provided by the Neptune electronic warfare reconnaissance plane and turned on the automatic target guidance flight mode on the plane. The Super Flag two-plane formation began to lower its altitude 160 nautical miles away from the target area and flew at an ultra-low altitude to skim the sea.

At 10:50 a.m., the "Revenge Bird" Super Military Flag attack plane, which had heard the wind, climbed altitude for the first time from the state of ultra-low-altitude penetration, the radar was turned on, and the target was not found in the established area for the first time.

The super flag descended to a height of about 30 meters, and the very exciting sticking to the sea advanced about 40 kilometers, this time the jump height was 750 meters, and the radar turned on for the second time to send out a detection signal, this time, the radar scanning, which lasted for several seconds, finally found 4 targets, one large and three small. The pilot lowered the altitude again and made a quiet listening to the beautiful man - while the pilots were busy feeding valuable target data into the fire control system.

The two revenge birds were now within 40 nautical miles of the Task Force's advance.

The two brave revenge birds continued their terminal penetration, further closing the attack distance (about 30 nautical miles), then climbed to a height of 160 meters, and the last radar was turned on, and finally the target was locked, and the pilot pressed the button to launch the Exocet missile. In the end, the two Super Flags climbed altitude, turned and detached, and began to return home.

At this time, Colonel Salter, the captain of the "Sheffield", the left winger of the task force, happened to be using a satellite phone to talk to London, because of electromagnetic compatibility problems, the ship's Type 966 long-range air warning radar had to be on standby at this time. Even so, the star officer, Lieutenant Colonel Nick Baso, received a report from the CIC Combat Intelligence Center.

"Unidentified aircraft spotted!"

This information comes from the Type 909 radar, which is still working on the machine, and its detection range is relatively close.

"What's the situation?" Lieutenant Colonel Basso had doubts in his mind, because there was a report to follow.

"The target is gone!"

"The target is gone!" A short message, but there can be many interpretations. The first is that the target really disappeared, and secondly, it can also be interpreted as the target is far away, and of course it can also be said to be a false alarm - just like what the air defense commander just said to the "Glasgow".

"There may be anomalies, pay attention to observation." Lieutenant Colonel Basso informed Lieutenant Walpole, who had been designated as a temporary observation post because of the standby of the long-range radar.

Lieutenant Colonel Basso turned around and continued to analyze the situation: is it an enemy plane or a our plane? Or...... Nothing? Another false alarm......

After a while, Captain Walpole, who was looking out on the bridge, really noticed an "anomaly".

Two clouds of flying smoke, accompanied by flashes......

Earlier than Captain Walpole, the anomaly was spotted by the ship's electronics - a directional radar signal from an unknown source locked onto the ship!

The duty officer immediately switched the ship's air defense system to working condition, but it will definitely take time for a whole set of reaction procedures to be carried out. As a result, there is not much real time left for the air defense weapon system to finally solve the problem......

"My God! It's a missile! Captain Walpole exclaimed, as if thunder had risen on the ground.

At this time, Captain Salter also saw something flying over!

“Take Cover！” The captain's hoarse roar echoed across the battleship!

Within seconds, the Sheffield had a ...... Destined for a passionate intimate encounter! Very violent!

Boom! Bang! Well! Comes with a glitter!

Now "Sheffield the Glitter" lives up to its name! 21010