“no combat aircraft take off vertically except in an air show situation” - it is also useful in a transport/transfer scenario. E.g. in the Falklands, additional Harriers were shipped south on cargo vessels, from which they VTOLed onto the carriers.

A Russian wearing British DPM?

You can JATO anything.

“Keep on flying east, come down somewhere deep in the country and settle down with a nice, warm Mongolian woman” was what one bomber pilot was apparently told to do if he survived attempting to nuke Moscow.

I think you confused Denmark with the Netherlands.

Getting out of the beachhead wasn’t really a problem, as the Argentine forces never counter-attacked it on the ground. The immediate impact of the loss of the Chinooks was that the Paras and Royal Marines had to march 30 miles, over difficult terrain and carrying heavy loads, to reach the Argentine defensive…

I guess you’re referring to the Atlantic Conveyor. She was one of a number of container ships requisitioned at the start of the war to carry equipment south. Unfortunately she was carrying all the Chinooks, and all but one of them were lost when she was hit, which had a significant impact on the land campaign.

Fantastic description of the differing viewpoints from BBC radio this morning: