Falklands War impression

[congofal]

Argentine Air Force IAI Nesher/Dagger Pilot , Falklands War 1982

[Klaus Schüßler]

Cool!

[congofal]

I put the impression together a few months ago for a little film school project a friend of mine was working on at the time.

Dagger's in action against the British Task Force on San Carlos Strait

[Klaus Schüßler]

Are we going to be able to see it?

[congofal]

Once it's all finished i will get a copy of it and either myself or my friend will put it up online .

[Redeye]

So the Argentine air force referred to the Mirage III as Daggers? Cool.

During my days as a Redeye/Stinger gunner, the two pics above were part of two film clips shown to mine and several other air defense units. There was no zoom and each clip lasted only several seconds. I was the only guy who correctly identified both aircraft. This really brought back some memories.

[congofal]

Yes we called them Daggers during the early to mid '80s , in 86 when they where upgraded by Israel with new avionics their named was changed to Finger by the Air Force .

[Redeye]

Finger? LOL, you're kidding right? "General, we're under attack!"

"Give them the Finger!"

Sorry, couldn't resist..........

[congofal]

Nope not kidding and you got it right , the name about kind of in that manner , as a result of the low level attack the Daggers made on the British Task Force and the damage they made it was like giving the British the finger .
Another explanation was that since they would be performing more long range attacks with the new avionics they would be the finger tips of the long arms of the Air Force .

[adibear62]

I just had to reply to this...being a Englishman and all...LOL


the reason the Argies did more long range attacks against our task force was because the where nuts scared of our Harrier Jump Jet's..they could take off from anywhere...

The whole of the UK where behind our boys out there and how one fleet of ships and not all Royal Navy ships at that (the Hospital Ship Uganda was a curse liner that I went to Israel on back in the late 70's) kicked the whole Argie's arse out of our Island..

[congofal]

Okay so , i went back today for a couple of hours to do some more scenes that they decided to add , hopefully next week they will start the final editing process .

[Redeye]

Ed, did Argentina create an armor (tanks) force? If so, what type of equipment did they use back then?

[congofal]

Yes , the first official Armor Brigade was formed in 1937 and the first tanks where British Vickers M1934's

During WWII Argentina had to manufactured it's own tanks so the Medium Tank Nahuel D.L. 43 was born , it looked a lot like an american M4 Sherman .

After the end of WWII Argentina purchased surplus U.S. M4's , amongst the ones delivered in 1947 where a large number of "Firefly" Shermans with the British 17 pounder cannon , Argentina was the only South American country to receive Firefly's .

During the '60s Argentina was going to buy American M41 Walker Bulldog's but the deal fell through , so instead talks started with Germany for them to produce a new tank for Argentina .
The tank was to be light , fast and be able to use a large caliber main gun.

The German company Thyssen-Henschel put together a design really fast , they modified a Marder IFV body and mounted a turret equipped with a Rheinmetall's Rh-105-30 smoothbore 105 mm gun , the new tank was called TAM ( Tanke Argentino Mediano , Argentine Medium Tank) it was adopted in 1977 , the first batch was manufactured in Germany and then production was moved to Argentina in 1979 , where a total of 200 vehicles where produced .

They are still make up the majority of Argentina's armor force.