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The Sea Harrier served in the Falklands War and the Balkans conflicts; on all occasions it mainly operated from aircraft carriers positioned within the conflict zone. Its usage in the Falklands War was its most high profile and important success, when it was the only fixed-wing fighter available to protect the British Task Force.
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.
After retiring from the Royal Navy in 1985, Ward wrote the book Sea Harrier Over the Falklands: A Maverick at War, first published in 1992. In 2001, he returned to the RNAS Yeovilton to fly with his son Kris, after the younger Ward qualified to fly the Sea Harrier FA2. [9] [10] His son died 15 November 2018, aged 45. [11]
Sea Harriers on board HMS Hermes in the Falklands on 19 May 1982 with 3 RAF Harrier GR3s in the foreground. Morgan joined the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy in 1966 initially limited to flying helicopters owing to the operation on his heart but then transferred to the RAF in the hope of flying jets. [3]
AIM-9L Sidewinder (Harrier, Sea Harrier, Nimrod) Air-to-surface missiles. AGM-45 Shrike ; BAe Sea Skua [14] - A light anti-ship missile, fired from Lynx helicopters, its warhead is only 20 kg compared with the Exocet's 165 kg. However, hits from three Sea Skua missiles badly damaged the Argentine tug ARA Alferez Sobral. Nord SS.11
Crashed due to bird strike near Port Stanley, Falkland Islands; Flight Lieutenant Ian Wilkes suffered serious injuries during ejection. [94] [130] 29 November 1984 800 Naval Air Squadron: Sea Harrier FRS1 XZ458 Crashed due to bird ingestion in Highland, Scotland; Lieutenant Collier ejected with injuries. [131] 7 February 1985 899 Naval Air Squadron
800 Naval Air Squadron (12 BAE Sea Harriers, including 7 absorbed from 899 training squadron and trials) Lt Commander A.D. Auld; part 809 Naval Air Squadron (4 BAE Sea Harriers absorbed into 800 Squadron) part No. 1 Squadron RAF (8 Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3) 825 Naval Air Squadron (4 Sea Kings HAS.2; formed from 706 training sqn) [3]
Following the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands in April 1982, the British Government dispatched a naval task force to the South Atlantic, including two aircraft carriers, each carrying a Sea Harrier squadron. 801 Squadron was embarked on HMS Invincible and 800 Squadron (now with Blue Fox) on the flagship, HMS Hermes.