How the Royal Navy accidentally took nuclear weapons to the Falklands War on Prince Andrew's warship

[rangerrebew]

How the Royal Navy accidentally took nuclear weapons to the Falklands War on Prince Andrew's warship

    WE.177A nuclear depth charges were on aircraft carrier HMS Invincible
    Prince flew sorties from the Invicible as a Sea King helicopter co-pilot
    The presence of the weapons was not officially confirmed until 2005

By Mark Nicol Defence Correspondent For The Mail On Sunday

Published: 18:06 EST, 18 February 2017 | Updated: 05:45 EST, 19 February 2017
 

The Royal Navy mistakenly took nuclear weapons to the Falklands War, storing them aboard the ship on which Prince Andrew served.

The WE.177A nuclear depth charges were taken aboard aircraft carrier HMS Invincible, from which the Prince flew sorties as a Sea King helicopter co-pilot with 820 Naval Air Squadron.

The Nuclear Information Service report estimates that there were ten warheads aboard Invincible, 16 on the second British carrier, HMS Hermes, and more aboard support ships in the task force dispatched by Margaret Thatcher in 1982.

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[rangerrebew]

This is for you EC, my friend.  I sometimes forget you are around and would like some news from your side of the pond, or Canada.  I'll see if I can find something or two every day.

[EC]

 

Our forces can pull boneheaded moves with the best of them. 

[Idiot]

A nuclear depth charge....wow.  That would sure do some damage to a submarine.......

[Elderberry]

Why would they even, years later, admit that?

Our Navy Never Admits whether our ships are carrying nuclear weapons, or not.

[EC]

The ways of the Admiralty are mysterious indeed.

"How many rolls of toilet paper does the War Office use per week?" -  CLASSIFIED!!!!

"Yeah, the Hermes took 16 nukes with it to the Falklands because someone forgot to offload them." - front page.

It's all that braid. Compresses the brain, I think.

[rangerrebew]

A nuclear depth charge....wow.  That would sure do some damage to a submarine.......

Not to mention the tsunami it would probably cause.