Over the Falkland Islands in May 1982 - an aerial duel was unfolding. The British pilots needed to protect their carrier, her ...

After British forces won the Falklands war, her popularity soared, allowing her to call a general election in 1983 which she won by a landslide. Mrs Thatcher established and chaired a small war ...

Falklands' veterans from HMS Spartan gather at Sunderland's War Memorial to honor their fallen ... May first she was marking the Argentine air carrier ARA 25 de Mayo, but never received the ...

Whatever your opinion on the moral rights and wrongs of the Falklands War, it is inescapably one of the most significant historical events of the 1980s. When Argentinian dictator General Galtieri ...

Andrés Dachary, Secretary for Malvinas (the name for the Falklands in Argentina), Antarctica, South Atlantic Islands, and International Affairs, denounced the act as a “new British encroachment.” ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The sinking of the General Belgrano helped deter the Argentine Navy from further action, greatly facilitating the British war effort ... the carrier 25 de Mayo.

Argentinian President Javier Milei is reportedly facing calls for his impeachment after a controversial speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos as he has been accused of abandoning his ...

The FV Argos Georgia foundered about 220 miles east of the Falklands after capsizing in 30ft (8m) waves last July. Although rescuers reached the site, tragedy struck when the unconscious fisherman ...

The more carriers China has, the more it can challenge America’s ability to control the Indian and Pacific Oceans—and perhaps wrestle that control away in a major war.

Donald Trump wants to negotiate an end to the Russo-Ukrainian war. But for a cease-fire not to boomerang back as an even bigger calamity, Moscow must come to terms with a hard truth — ending its ...

The meta-problem with the aircraft carrier is straightforward enough. Every new development in missile technology makes it harder and harder to claim that aircraft carriers are worth the ticket price.

The decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy embarked on its ... who had served as a naval officer during World War II. After his motor torpedo boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese ...