Media stir over alleged UK plan to attack Argentina mainland in 1982
According to the news piece, Royal Air Force Vulcan bombers designed for nuclear raids on Russia, trained night and day in Scotland and Canada for an air attack in Argentine soil.
The newspaper states the plans were drawn up by Air Commodore Simon Baldwin, “who was the wing commander in charge of the last remaining Vulcan squadron in 1982.”
A top team of veteran pilots spent months plotting the raids, preparing to fly into Argentina mainland, The Telegraph informed.
Historian Rowland White said the commander in charge of the attack “was left in no doubt at all that attacks against the Argentine mainland were now his squadron's raison d'être”.
"It would be a major challenge but the crews were up for it, they were happy to go and do it but we were not gung-ho," Baldwin told reporters.
“The attack of two flights of two Vulcans would be launched from Ascension Island, the mid-Atlantic British possession, which was 1,600 kilometres closer to the Argentine mainland air bases than the Falklands”, the paper explained.
According to the story, the squadron went as far as Goose Bay, Canada. “But by the end of the year Argentina elected a democratic government and the threat to the Falklands went away,” it concludes.
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