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Operation Mikado *. Humor

In May 1982, the Falklands war had begun and drivers navales argentinos habían usado los misiles franceses Exocet en sus aviones Super Etendard contra el destructor británico “Sheffield” después del hundimiento del crucero “General Belgrano”.

El efecto fue devastador y los mas de veinte muertos y decenas de heridos shockearon a Gran Bretaña. La inteligencia británica descubrió que había más Exocet que podrían ser lanzados por los argentinos. Si le pegaban al PAL Hermes o al PAL Invincible, buques madres de su flota, los resultados podrían ser catastróficos. El gabinete de guerra de Margaret Thatcher decidió que los misiles debían ser descubiertos y destruidos.

La mission went to the B Squadron of the SAS in a secret operation they named Mikado. They were to fly to the naval base in Rio Grande, in Tierra del Fuego, where they were missiles. Landing on two Hercules C-130, destroy the missiles, the Super Etendard aircraft, killing the pilot and take refuge in Chile, "neutral territory" under the pretext of a technical fault. Reagan Thatcher warned that such operations would force the intervention of other Latin American countries like Peru in the war.

As a first step, the SAS captain Andrew H. traveled to Chile under diplomatic cover added assistant military. His job was to recognize the route, the border and plan how you would supply. The command was intended to infiltrate a group from Chile to provide early warning and informing the SAS when the Super Etendard off from the base of Rio Gallegos. But then he discovered that British Harrier aircraft would not reach the Argentine aircraft before they launch their Exocet missile.

The squad began training in the mountains of Scotland. General Peter de la Billiere, head of SAS, I thought to send a helicopter to land Argentina advanced to the recognition of the target, the location of aircraft and fuel. Hercules thought the British would detected 30 miles before the radar and receive a welcome anti-aircraft missile. So preferred to act and night landing. Divided into two groups of fifteen men, the project was to destroy the aircraft, identify the officers and kill them one by one. If the aircraft survived the landing and attack, air escape and if not, to Chile by the cold and wet land, a land where British commandos who feel more comfortable and become unbeatable.

Satellite photos showed the Americans stayed close to the base, Sarah Braun. One of the command said it had to kill all its inhabitants. May 17 1982, departed from the aircraft carrier "Invincible" a helicopter with three SAS commands. Armed with satellite communications equipment, the group was heading to Rio Grande when the radar showed 20 kilometers from the target had been detected. Captain L. considered "mission compromised." They looked at all worried and decided to move west, bound for Chile, in the direction of Punta Arenas. "Mission Aborted" transmitted by the team and leave the helicopter. The British Defense Ministry official said that it was an emergency landing. But everyone knows that British special forces are operating in the Argentine mainland or trying to.

leave SAS pilots in civilian clothes on a flight from Santiago to London line. Later there was another attempt to carry out Operation Mikado. But eight commands D squadron killed when a helicopter crashed into the sea by members of the SAS transfer from one ship to another in the South Atlantic a few weeks after the first failure. The signal came from the headquarters of Hereford was adamant: the mission was postponed. Vice Admiral Horatio

Zaratiegui, by the Austral zone in Tierra del Fuego, was always suspicious of British intentions. For something so British had trained themselves in the School of Intelligence in Britain. Obsessed with Chilean possible attack, the officer believed there was a quiet alliance between Chile and the United Kingdom that would enable the Chileans to advance from the west in memory of the Beagle dispute. In 1983, the former commander of the southern area recalled: "Our radars noted that the helicopter was traveling from neighboring Chile to Argentina. He crossed the border, then hung in the air for a few minutes and disappeared from radar, a clear sign that had fallen. Appeared again at 5 minutes near the fuel plant and 5 miles of stay of Sara Braun, south of the Rio Grande and near the sea.

All this happened the night before he was discovered to 'Sea King' fire in the vicinity of Punta Arenas. Zaratiegui was convinced that the British helicopter was returning from a reconnaissance mission with a group of commandos who tried to blow up the fuel plant in the Bay of San Sebastian, Tierra del Fuego. The plant supplied the aviation fuel, JP1, at 5 Super Etendard aircraft of the Navy, at age 6 and older Mirage Dagger recognition Neptune acting against the British fleet.

The British helicopter appeared on screen in the only three radars on the island of Tierra del Fuego capable of intercepting signals. The first sighting was the operator out of the destroyer "Bouchard", which was anchored in Hope Bay. Without using the coded language, he communicated to his colleague of the destroyer "Piedra" which was farther north. Also detected by the radar diagosticaron naval air and traveling at 90 knots, heading 090, heading east.

next day, six helicopters and Marines Argentines moved the island in search of their traces. They found nothing. But as a precaution and expected an attack, the base was the Rio Grande mined and had enlisted a company of marines to defend it. Argentina naval aviation war began five Super Etendard aircraft and five AM-39 Exocet missiles and finished with five ships intact. Were awaiting shipment from France nine Dassault Super Etendard aircraft that arrived during the conflict over British pressures.

* Source: Excerpt from "The Secret War for the Falklands" by Nigel West, pseudonym of the British Conservative MP Rupert Allason. 1998. www.desarrolloydefensa.blogspot.com taken. On the topic you can see Attack Rio Grande. Operation Mikado, Institute of Naval Publications Editors. Autor Jorge Muñoz.Y ahora podemos seguir viendo los prolegómenos de la boda real inglesa.