Chapter 772 Lack of Confidence

The Atlantic Ocean is rippling with blue waves.

After nearly a month of sailing, the British task force finally arrived near the Falkland Islands. Before that, they had already fought a small war.

South Georgia Island, more than a thousand kilometers away from the Falkland Islands, the British Antarctic research site, was recaptured by the British using force! At the same time, in order to support the war in the Falkland Islands, the British Royal Air Force began to station at the Widjaja Wake Air Force Base on Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean, including the McDonnell Douglas Spirit FGR.2 fighter-bombers responsible for escort, the 44th Squadron's Vulcan bombers, and a Victory aerial refueling aircraft fleet. Once the war started, it would be much closer to take off from here than from the British mainland.

Standing on the bridge, looking at the surrounding sea, Admiral John was also very excited. Now, they have finally arrived here! However, due to caution, the aircraft carrier formation did not approach the waters within 300 nautical miles of the Falkland Islands to avoid being attacked by Argentine Air Force fighters. Now, with their arrival, the war has officially begun.

The first to launch the attack was not the Royal Navy, but the Royal Air Force. The Royal Air Force Vulcan bomber group took off from Ascension Island. After a long flight and several aerial refuelings, it was about to fly over the Falkland Islands and launch an air strike on the most important air force base in Stanley Port on the island!

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The Vulcan bomber is a strange-looking Soviet bomber produced in the 1950s. It has air intakes at the root of the wings, just like a big bird flying in the sky. This is a Vulcan bomber for medium-range and long-range European nuclear war missions. It can carry 21 1,000-pound bombs and four Shrike anti-radar missiles. The bomb load is definitely not small, but the range of this aircraft is not high. It can only fly 4,000 kilometers without load, but now it takes more than 6,000 kilometers one way. At the same time, because it is fully loaded, the entire flight requires at least 4 aerial refuelings. However, their aerial refueling aircraft is a modified Victory bomber with insufficient fuel capacity, so when performing support, it also needs multiple aerial refuelings from the same level of Victory tankers. In this way, a spectacular scene is formed. Two Vulcan bombers need eleven aerial refueling aircraft to support one mission. At the same time, a single raid took sixteen hours and a total of 125,000 kilometers to go back and forth.

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 voice in the international community!

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At the same time, what made Admiral John feel a little relieved was that the Soviet fleet had disappeared long ago and had never appeared since then. In the war to capture the Falkland Islands, there was no Soviet navy causing trouble. This was really good news.

As the spectacular group of bombers passed overhead, the first air raid was finally about to begin. Admiral John was full of anticipation. In fact, the bombing effect of bombers carrying ordinary bombs was not very good, but this was the effect they wanted!

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After the bombers have bombed several times and destroyed the Stanley Air Force Base, our formation can continue to approach and prepare for landing operations! At that time, we have to continue to approach the Falkland Islands to complete the attack.

Damn Exocet! It would have been best if the French had not sold Exocet missiles to Argentina before the war! Although the French vowed that although they had sold Exocet, the later technicians had not arrived yet, and the Argentines could not operate those Exocet missiles at all, and the possibility of them launching an attack with Exocet missiles was almost zero.

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Even so, Admiral John has always been wary of Exocet missiles because he knows how vulnerable his own 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 our side. However, this type of missile has now shown its serious lack of low-altitude defense capability. Last time, the Soviet fighter planes dared to blatantly cross our aircraft carrier airspace because our side's ability to strike ultra-low-altitude aircraft was insufficient.

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So, what if it was an Exocet missile? How confident are we that we can intercept this missile, which has a minimum altitude of less than five meters and can even drop to two or three meters at the end?

Admiral John looked outside and saw several anti-aircraft destroyers lined up at the outside of the formation, while the Type 42 destroyer HMS Shelffield was sailing at the front of the entire formation, in a standard anti-aircraft combat style.

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

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Using helicopters to increase the early warning range is also a last resort. After all, the narrow nose of our Sea Harrier carrier-based aircraft cannot accommodate a high-power radar, and the detection range is similar to that of the Sea King helicopter. Therefore, it is better to use helicopters directly for early warning, as helicopters are more convenient to take off and land.

In 1980, the British Navy began to install the Thorn-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 on the surface 100 nautical miles away under high sea conditions. It increases the detection capability. Unfortunately, this early warning aircraft was not developed until 1985 in history, and now it is impossible to equip the fleet.

Even if helicopters are sent to increase the early warning range, it still relies more on the pilot's visual search.

After receiving the order, a Sea King helicopter quickly flew off the deck of the Invincible aircraft carrier. The pilot was a dashing young man, Prince Andrew of the British royal family, the third in line to the throne, who followed the aircraft carrier formation and participated in this war! Now, he is a helicopter pilot of the 820 Squadron on the Invincible aircraft carrier.

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Prince Andrew flew off the deck of the Invincible and flew around the periphery of the formation. While the onboard radar was detecting, he was also constantly scanning everything around him with his naked eyes.

"Report, the air defense radar on the USS Shelffield missile destroyer detected a suspicious radar wave, which flashed for 0.1 seconds and then disappeared." On the Invincible, Major General Woodward received such a report.

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Flashing for 0.1 second? It must be a false alarm! Just two hours ago, a radar of the same model had such a false alarm. After repeated inspections, nothing was found. It only flashed for 0.1 second. What if it was just an eye problem?

"Connect me to the Shelfield, I need to speak to the captain," said Major General Woodward.