In one of the most infamous naval attacks of the Falklands War, Argentine aircraft launched Exocet missiles at HMS Sheffield after carefully rehearsing how to defeat ships just like it. Warnings were ...

"Exocet!" Colin Haley cannot be sure, but he thinks that moments before the missile struck home one of his colleagues in the operations room of HMS Sheffield cried out a last minute warning. Sign Up ...

During the Falklands War, HMS Sheffield was sent south as part of Britain’s effort to retake the islands from Argentina. But on May 4, 1982, two Argentine Super Étendards launched Exocet missiles at ...

May 4 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1494, on his second expedition to the New World, Columbus explored the Caribbean island of Jamaica. In 1886, four police officers were killed when a bomb was ...

MPs have called for an inquiry into whether France misled the UK over missiles that killed more than 40 British sailors during the Falklands War. How the Falklands War began Planned Army cuts would ...

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It was over 40 years ago that a French-made fighter aircraft carrying a French-made anti-ship missile resulted in the greatest loss of a Royal Navy warship since the Second World ...

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