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I remember that during the Falklands war one British fighter ran out of fuel and landed in Brazil. The Brazilians returned the plane, but without one of its mis
by frozenlettuce 6y ago
I remember that during the Falklands war one British fighter ran out of fuel and landed in Brazil. The Brazilians returned the plane, but without one of its missiles - it turns out that it was equipped with an American missile (officially, the US was not involved - Brazil itself gave some help to Argentina too).
Edit: found a source, it was a Shrike missile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck#Black_Buck_Six https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck#Black_Buc...
- greedo 6y agoTechnically not a fighter, but a bomber. And I'm surprised that it was a concern being armed with an American weapon. We provided AIM-9 Sidewinders to the British during the conflict.
- m463 6y agoI believe the concern was that they retained the missile (and probably disassembled it or shared it)
- greedo 6y agoThat seems correct [0]. But the replacement for the Shrike was already in development (AGM-88 HARM), and deployed the following year. Unless the HARM and Shrike shared a lot of tech, it wouldn't seem like it'd be much of a risk. [0]https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/621106/Margaret-Thatcher-Falklands-war-Brazil https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/621106/Margaret-Thatcher-F...