Comments by "Alex" (@Alex-cw3rz) on "USS Phoenix / ARA General Belgrano - Pearl Harbor Spectator to South Atlantic Predator" video.

It's fascinating how much is still mysterious about the war even though it's 40 years ago.
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It does not suprise me at all that they thought the navy was going to fail and that they'd blame the Admiral. With the huge funding cuts under Thatcher, including the fact one of our two aircraft carriers HMS Invincible was to be sold to Australia later that year. We had scrapped our only heavy support vessel, it could have been a disaster. If it wasn't for luckily still having enough ships as the funding cuts hadn't been able to get to that yet, the training and bravery of the man on board. On the topic or funding cuts the irony of the use of the Blackbird is the British version of a high attitude Reconnaissance plane which was very similar was cancelled in the 1950s.
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That was very interesting information about the Satellite photos as that means the Soviets gave Argentina more Satellite photos than the US did to Britain. (Obviously as he said the Blackbird was used so it will be interesting to find out about that) Although they weren't much use due to the fact that the photos would be looked over by Soviet officials first to see if they would hand it over and then when it was that meant it was out of date as the ships had moved on. Argentina didn't particularly trust the Soviets either.
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I hope HMS Conqueror is saved and becomes a museum ship. I think it would be a very important vessel to save.
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I never knew about the new guns, that is a very interesting fact, can anyone give some more specs on them, as I can't find much about it, well in the English speaking internet that is.
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@alganhar1 the difference is in the 60s and 70s when they made cuts there was still a capable armed forces left over, whereas under Thatcher she cut it to the bone and almost lost the Falklands. That couldn't have happened with the 60s and 70s. There is a huge difference between the cuts done by other governments both Labour and Conservative before Thatcher, do not both sides, all that does is run cover for the worst and let them off the hook. Well exactly and Boris claiming there will never be a tank war again and the Russian Ukraine war starts up, I know a very mild example of his l ies, but still. Those force multipliers should be there as well as tanks, espcially when we don't know about their effectiveness. I.e. in the Falklands navies thought getting rid of AA guns and replacing them with a few SAM missiles systems would be good enough and we quickly realised that was a poor decision. I agree the British Army has been severly downgraded under this current government, I think a lot of corruption is involved as well because we spend so much yet have so little. Sending over 4 Mutiple Missile systems to Ukraine was 10% of our entire force. Whereas Ukraine had 100s before the war.
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@Freyja666 firstly praising Pinochet is very weird. Chile did help, but it is a myth that aircraft used their airfields, a sea king was able to make an emergency landing in Chile. Chile helped in other ways such as intelligence and Troop movement to keep most of Argentinas elite Marines on the border between Chile. That is the only good thing Pinochet ever did.
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@Cailus3542 yes they can, as someone else said a US sub had been and I believe a French one has as well
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@Freyja666 he overthrew a democracy and tortured&murdered thousands of people. They are human being right? Why do you care about the Falklands then... Are you just trying to be an edgy teenager?
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@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM the myth I was talking about was the widely held belief that Camberras were allowed too. Not one Nimrod on an island
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@simonroyle2806 oopsie yes I do
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