{"id":3321722,"date":"2026-07-01T14:43:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/three-exocets-that-terrified-the-royal-navy\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:35:53","slug":"tres-misiles-exocet-que-aterrorizaron-a-la-marina-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/es\/three-exocets-that-terrified-the-royal-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tres misiles Exocet que aterrorizaron a la Marina Real."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Argentina went to war in the Falklands in April 1982 with five air-launched Exocet missiles. Five. That was the entire stock \u2014 France had delivered the AM39 variant along with a handful of <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/super-etendard\">Super \u00c9tendard<\/a> strike fighters just months before the conflict began, and the arms embargo imposed after the invasion meant no more were coming. Five missiles to take on the Royal Navy. Three of them hit ships. The other two missed or malfunctioned. And those three hits changed the way every navy on Earth thought about anti-ship warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/48oEzRlEB0s\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:none\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The First Shot: HMS Sheffield, May 4<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Type 42 destroyer HMS <em>Sheffield<\/em> was on radar picket duty, positioned ahead of the British carrier group to provide early warning of air attack. She never got the chance. Two Super \u00c9tendards of Argentina's 2nd Naval Fighter\/Attack Squadron launched from R\u00edo Grande air base in Tierra del Fuego, refuelled from a KC-130 Hercules tanker, and descended to wave-top altitude for the attack run. Their targeting data came from a Neptune maritime patrol aircraft that had detected the British fleet on radar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At roughly 20 nautical miles, the lead pilot popped up, acquired <em>Sheffield<\/em> on radar, and fired. The Exocet skimmed the waves at Mach 0.9 and struck the destroyer amidships on the starboard side, punching through the hull and igniting a fire fed by the ship's own fuel and electrical cabling. Whether the missile's warhead actually detonated remains debated \u2014 the damage was caused largely by unburned rocket propellant and the kinetic energy of a 660-kilogram missile hitting a lightly armoured warship at near-sonic speed. Twenty men died. <em>Sheffield<\/em> burned for five days and sank under tow on May 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=695923529  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/hms-sheffield-exocet-attack-falklands-1982.jpg\" alt=\"A Super \u00c9tendard launches an AM39 Exocet \u2014 the missile that struck HMS Sheffield on 4 May 1982\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:auto\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">HMS Sheffield ablaze after an Exocet strike on May 4, 1982. She sank under tow six days later. Royal Navy photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Second Strike: Atlantic Conveyor, May 25<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three weeks later, on Argentina's national day, two more Exocets were fired at the British carrier group. This time the frigates screening the carriers detected the incoming missiles and fired chaff \u2014 clouds of metallic strips designed to seduce radar-guided weapons away from their targets. It worked, partially. The Exocets lost lock on the warships. But the chaff deflected them toward a larger radar return behind the screen: the 15,000-ton container ship <em>Atlantic Conveyor<\/em>, requisitioned as a transport for helicopters, supplies, and engineering equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both missiles struck the merchantman. Twelve crew died, including her master, Captain Ian North. The material loss was devastating: three Chinook, six Wessex and one Lynx helicopters, runway matting for a forward operating base, tents, water purification equipment, and cluster bombs. The loss of the Chinooks alone forced the Royal Marines and Paras to march the 56 miles from San Carlos to Stanley on foot \u2014 the legendary \"yomp\" that defined the land campaign. One missile strike against a support ship changed the entire ground war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NNO4VkGUpNI\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:none\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Third Hit: HMS Glamorgan, June 12<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final Exocet attack was the most improvised. Argentina had no air-launched missiles left. So naval engineers removed two MM38 ship-launched Exocets from the destroyer ARA <em>Segu\u00ed<\/em>, mounted them on a flatbed trailer, and rigged a makeshift launcher on the coast near Stanley. On the night of June 12, as the County-class destroyer HMS <em>Glamorgan<\/em> was providing naval gunfire support for the final British assault on the mountains above Stanley, the improvised battery fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Glamorgan<\/em> detected the incoming missile and turned hard to present her stern \u2014 the narrowest possible profile. The Exocet struck the ship's helicopter hangar aft, destroying the Wessex helicopter inside and killing fourteen crew. But because the missile hit at an oblique angle and the ship was already turning away, the damage was contained. <em>Glamorgan<\/em> survived, fought through the rest of the war, and sailed home under her own power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IUZu8bvxJs4\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:none\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Five Missiles, Forever Changed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Argentina fired its five air-launched Exocets and improvised a shore launcher for two more. Three ships were hit. Two sank. Fourteen men died on <em>Glamorgan<\/em>, twenty on <em>Sheffield<\/em>, twelve on <em>Atlantic Conveyor<\/em>. The total cost of those French-made missiles \u2014 each worth roughly $200,000 in 1982 dollars \u2014 was one destroyer, one container ship, ten helicopters, and forty-six lives. Against ships worth hundreds of millions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Falklands proved what theorists had warned about for a decade: that a single relatively cheap missile, launched from beyond visual range, could kill a modern warship. Every navy drew the same conclusion. Anti-ship missile defence \u2014 close-in weapons systems, electronic countermeasures, chaff, decoys \u2014 became the defining obsession of naval architecture for the next forty years. The Phalanx CIWS, the RAM missile, Aegis \u2014 all are, in some sense, answers to the question the Exocet asked in 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Super \u00c9tendard pilots who flew those missions became legends in Argentine naval aviation. The Royal Navy never forgot the lessons. And the Exocet \u2014 a French missile, sold to Argentina, fired at British ships, in a war France officially stayed neutral in \u2014 became the most famous anti-ship weapon of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n\n\n<!-- mf-faq -->\n\n<div class=\"mf-faq-block\"><style>.mf-faq-block{margin:34px 0}.mf-faq-item:not([open]) .mf-faq-answer{display:none !important}.mf-faq-block h2.mf-faq-h{padding-top:22px;margin-bottom:14px}.mf-faq-item{border:1px solid #e2e8f5;border-radius:8px;margin:0 0 10px;background:#fff}.mf-faq-item summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;padding:15px 50px 15px 18px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a1a;position:relative;line-height:1.45;user-select:none}.mf-faq-item summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mf-faq-item summary::after{content:\"+\";position:absolute;right:18px;top:50%;transform:translateY(-50%);font-size:1.5em;font-weight:400;color:#5C91FF;line-height:1}.mf-faq-item[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mf-faq-item[open] summary{border-bottom:1px solid #eef1f8}.mf-faq-item summary:hover{background:#f5f8ff}.mf-faq-answer{padding:14px 18px;color:#333;line-height:1.6}.mf-faq-answer p{margin:0}.mf-faq-answer a{color:#5C91FF}<\/style><h2 class=\"mf-faq-h\">Related Questions<\/h2><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>How many Exocet missiles did Argentina have in the Falklands War?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>Argentina began the 1982 Falklands War with just five air-launched AM39 Exocet missiles, delivered by France with a handful of Super Etendard strike fighters shortly before the conflict. An arms embargo meant no more were coming. Three of the five hit British ships, and those three strikes reshaped how navies thought about anti-ship warfare.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>What is an Exocet missile?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>The Exocet is a French-built sea-skimming anti-ship missile. The air-launched AM39 version used in the Falklands flew at around Mach 0.9 just above the waves, making it very hard to detect and intercept. Its 660-kilogram body could cripple a warship through kinetic energy and fire even when the warhead did not fully detonate.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>What happened to HMS Sheffield?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>The Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield was struck by an Exocet on 4 May 1982 while on radar picket duty. The missile hit amidships and ignited fires fed by the ship's own fuel and cabling. Twenty men died. Sheffield burned for five days and sank under tow on 10 May, the first Royal Navy ship lost to enemy action since the Second World War.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>Why was the loss of the Atlantic Conveyor so damaging?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>The container ship Atlantic Conveyor, hit by two Exocets on 25 May 1982, was carrying vital equipment: three Chinook and several other helicopters, runway matting, tents and stores. Twelve crew died, including her master, Captain Ian North. The loss of the Chinooks forced British troops to march, or yomp, 56 miles on foot to Stanley.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>How did the Exocet change naval warfare?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>The three Exocet hits showed that a cheap, sea-skimming missile could sink or disable expensive modern warships, forcing navies worldwide to invest heavily in missile defences, decoys and countermeasures. Warships increasingly relied on chaff and electronic tricks to survive, part of the wider story of <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/chaff-flares-countermeasures-how-jets-defeat-missiles\/\">how jets and ships trick missiles into missing<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>What aircraft launched Argentina's Exocet missiles?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>Argentina's air-launched Exocets were fired from Super Etendard strike fighters, flying from Rio Grande air base and refuelling from KC-130 tankers. The final Exocet strike, on HMS Glamorgan on 12 June, used a missile improvised from a ship's launcher on land. 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