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This is a list of the naval forces from the United Kingdom that took part in the Falklands War, often referred to as "the Task Force" in the context of the war. [1] For a list of naval forces from Argentina, see Argentine naval forces in the Falklands War.
The Falklands War was fought from April to June 1982 over the possession of the Falklands Islands. Pages in category "Falklands War orders of battle" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Operation Corporate command structure 1982 D-day at San Carlos. The land forces employed by the United Kingdom during the Falklands War amounted to a divisional sized formation, named as Land Forces Falkland Islands, consisting of two brigades:
ARA Isla de los Estados – transport ship sunk by HMS Alacrity in Falkland Sound. (†22) ARA Bahía Buen Suceso – a transport ship, Bahía Buen Suceso transported Constantino Davidoff's party to South Georgia precipitating the Falklands War. She was moved from Stanley to the Falklands Sound on 29 April.
The air units involved in the Falklands War were under the following chain of command: . Military junta – Brigadier General (Lieutenant General) Basilio Lami Dozo. Air Defence Command (Spanish: Comando Aéreo de Defensa) – Brigadier Jorge Hughes was in charge of the radar network, Mirage IIIEA interceptors and anti-aircraft defences on the mainland.
800 NAS Sea Harrier FRS1 in low-visibility paint scheme.. This is a list of the units, aircraft and casualties of the British air services in the Falklands War.The numbers in bold are the number of aircraft used in the war, the numbers in brackets are the number of lost aircraft.
Two assumptions governed the deployment of the Argentine ground forces on the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Guarnición Militar Malvinas): the junta did not believe that the British would use military force to retake the islands, so the initial landing force had been withdrawn shortly after April 3, and was not reinforced until after the British ...