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To: IUSED2spy

I still see no dates for these Super Etendard AM.39 mission flown from Venezuela. Again take a look at a map for crying out loud! Are you aware of how many tanker refuellings it would take get the Super Etendards down to the Falklands from Venezuela.

You wrote:

"I barely remenber but a few years back discovery channel did a piece on those missions to rearm the exocet on to etendard when the venezuelan exocet were fitted for pylons on Mirage2000"s."

Neither Argentina or Venezuela operate the Mirage 2000. What you are relying on is a fantasy tale. You fail to consider the range that the Super Etendard would have to fly and the refuelling support that it would require. For your mission to work then their would have to have been Argentine KC-130s in support doing multiple refuellings. You fail to provide a date for these missions when the Argentines provided details of pilots and the missions flown to launch their 5 French supplied AM.39s.

Again take a look at a map. Work out the range and inform me of the dates that those Super Etendard missions.

The Argentines during the conflict only had 5 AM.39s. They used them all up in anti-shipping missions.

http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/Exocet.html

Augusto Bedacarratz has recently recounted his thoughts on his mission:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2002/falklands/my_story/bedacarratz.stm

If you think that Super Etendards flew from Venezuela on anti-shipping missions then your are seriously deluding yourself. Bedacarratz and any other of the Argentine Armada Super Etendard pilots would laugh at your fantasy tale based purely on the logistics that would have had to have been taken just to get them to the region.


226 posted on 05/26/2006 9:33:35 PM PDT by Tommyjo
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To: Tommyjo

well i did a bit more seaching and n fact the etandards did not fly to venezuela on the same days as the missions took place . there were maintained in venezuela to be outfitted for the exocet the weeks later flew to argentina before the conflict even bagan. There were flight plans which called for planes to flee to venezuela to evade being destroyed by british invaders , and it was on one of these so called flee attempts that they blended the attack which sunk the british vessles.

Vnezuelka has had mirage aircraft for a long time
http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avmir3.html follow this link and if you like I can send you a video of an air show in 2004 where you can see all the aircraft vcnezuela flys.


227 posted on 05/28/2006 12:36:52 PM PDT by IUSED2spy
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