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* [[Brits With Battleships]] [[Cool Plane|And Jump Jets]]: [[Cool vs. Awesome|As awesome as it sounds.]] |
* [[Brits With Battleships]] [[Cool Plane|And Jump Jets]]: [[Cool vs. Awesome|As awesome as it sounds.]] |
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* [[Body Horror]]: [[wikipedia:Simon Weston|This guy]] was on board HMS ''Sir Galahad'' when it was bombed. [[Made of Iron|He survived with 46% of his body burned]]. Some time after the war, he met and became friends ''with the pilot who bombed him''. |
* [[Body Horror]]: [[wikipedia:Simon Weston|This guy]] was on board HMS ''Sir Galahad'' when it was bombed. [[Made of Iron|He survived with 46% of his body burned]]. Some time after the war, he met and became friends ''with the pilot who bombed him''. |
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** On the British side, there's the [[wikipedia:Sea Harrier|Sea Harrier]], which was deployed in a warzone for the first time in its operational history. To a lesser extent, so were the [[wikipedia:Avro vulcan|Avro Vulcan]] strategic jet bombers - though this would be the the first, last and ''only'' time they were used in a shooting war, in the course of which they set the record for the longest bombing missions ever undertaken. Not bad for a design conceived in the 1940s, first flown in 1952 and ready to be phased out around the time the war started... [[Break Out the Museum Piece|You could say the war gave them a final blaze of glory before heading into retirement]]. |
** On the British side, there's the [[wikipedia:Sea Harrier|Sea Harrier]], which was deployed in a warzone for the first time in its operational history. To a lesser extent, so were the [[wikipedia:Avro vulcan|Avro Vulcan]] strategic jet bombers - though this would be the the first, last and ''only'' time they were used in a shooting war, in the course of which they set the record for the longest bombing missions ever undertaken. Not bad for a design conceived in the 1940s, first flown in 1952 and ready to be phased out around the time the war started... [[Break Out the Museum Piece|You could say the war gave them a final blaze of glory before heading into retirement]]. |
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** The Argentinian [[wikipedia:FMA IA 58 Pucar%C3%A1|Pucará]] ground attack planes may have been helpless against Sea Harriers and SAS operatives with grenade launchers, but the British found them hard to take down. |
** The Argentinian [[wikipedia:FMA IA 58 Pucar%C3%A1|Pucará]] ground attack planes may have been helpless against Sea Harriers and SAS operatives with grenade launchers, but the British found them hard to take down. |
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