The Sea Harrier was crucial to the UK in the 1982 Air War in South America. One cannot speak of Margaret Thatcher, who passed away on Apr. 8, 2013, without mentioning the 1982 Falklands ...

Over the Falkland Islands in May 1982 - an aerial duel was unfolding. The British pilots needed to protect their carrier, her escorts and their landing force from marauding Argentine strike aircra ...

A front-line pilot of the 1982 Falklands War who several ... since the Second World War. Wing Commander Squire flew his Harrier off the cargo vessel, Atlantic Conveyor only a few days before ...

After the initial inconclusive engagements between British Sea Harriers and Argentine Mirages and Daggers, Argentine leadership launched a major effort against what they believed was an amphibious ...

A FALKLANDS War hero who was one of the most renowned Harrier pilots has died aged 81. Ex-Navy fighter ace Cdr Nigel “Sharkey” Ward passed away at his home on the Caribbean island of Grenada ...

Photo: A Sea Harrier on the flight deck of HMS Hermes heading to the Falklands , April 1982. .(Getty Images) ...

The war ended in victory for British forces ... After sailing across the Atlantic, British forces landed on the Falklands under air cover from Harrier fighter jets. Argentine air force fighter ...

Forces.net, a UK armed forces platform has published that a Royal Navy Sea Harrier and a Lynx helicopter – a combat veteran of the Falklands War – have completed their 8,000-mile journey to ...

It was the most memorable moment of the Falklands War. From on board HMS Hermes, BBC war reporter Brian Hanrahan told how he had watched Harrier jump jets head off, and return, from a bombing raid ...

A carrier-based version, the Sea Harrier, made global headlines for the Royal Air Force during the Falklands War with Argentina in 1982. The British warplanes shot down 20 Argentinian fighters ...

The planes are pictured above on board HMS Hermes during the Falklands War. A second upgraded Sea Harrier plane - the FA2 - was manufactured from 1993. The planes, which were introduced in 1978 ...

During the war in the Falklands, 'Sharkey' as he was known ... Cross for his efforts and earned the nickname “Mister Sea Harrier”. After retirement he advised the Government on military ...