The Sinking of HMS Sheffield Explained | The British Falkland Islands & British Military

Twenty crew members on HMS Sheffield were killed when she was hit by an Argentine Exocet missile on May 4, 1982 during the Falklands War. She sank six days later. Some of her former ship's company were in Portsmouth this week to remember those who crossed the bar that fateful day | The News, Portsmouth

4th of May 1982: Argentines destroy HMS Sheffield (D80) 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 The British ship HMS Sheffield has been hit by an Argentine missile fired from a Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard. The sinking has shocked the British nation and foiled any possible diplomatic solution to the current dispute over the Falkland Islands between Britain and Argentina. The ship caught fire when a French-made Exocet missile penetrated deep into HMS Sheffield's control room. The blaze caused poisonous smoke and most of

Falklands 40th Anniversary 🌺🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🌺 In the Wake of HMS Sheffield (D80) (Full Documentary) 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 The Falklands War proved a bloody testing ground for many of the world's most advanced conventional weapons, nowhere more so than in the air-sea battles fought out between the Royal Navy and the Argentinean Air Force. For the Royal Navy, the Falklands was the first significant war of the missile age. In the BBC film In the Wake of HMS Sheffield, we discover what has it learned about con