Sea Wings: The Falkland Surprise (full documentary) 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 In 1982 the second-largest country in South America went to war with one of the major NATO powers, over a sparsely populated group of islands in a remote corner of the South Atlantic. Known as the 'Falklands' in Great Britain (even if few Britons knew of their existence before 1982), and as the 'Malvinas' in Argentina (which laid claim to the islands), the skies above and beyond this apparently insignificant territory became the ba

Harrier First Strike on Port Stanley 1st May 1982 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 On 1 May 1982, the RAF and the UK Task Force launched the first bombing raids on Port Stanley airfield, East Falklands. The first attack, in the early morning, by an Avro Vulcan was soon followed by Sea Harriers (SHARs) from HM aircraft carriers Hermes and Invincible who carried out a low-level attack on the airfield, the day, for those that remember, when the BBC’s Brian Hanrahan, “I counted them all out and I counted them all back”