[quote][b][url=/v3/forum/histoire-et-actualit%C3%A9s-45/topic/la-guerre-des-malouines-272/?post=38168#post-38168]ex-pit[/url] a dit le 29/07/2007 à 14:04 :[/b]

[quote="ogotaï"]N'empêche qu'il va peut-être falloir approfondir ce Invincible pas si invicible que ça. De petites anecdotes de terrains, ça m'interesse aussi  :mrgreen:[/quote]
[i]Le destroyer dernier cri HMS Sheffield, avec les équipements de détection les plus sophistiqués et bardé de batteries lance missile moyenne et longue portée, de même que son navire d'escorte le HMS ''ATLANTIC CONVEYOR'' coulèrent en quelques minutes. Tout les deux victimes du célèbre missile français. [b]Le missile Exocet devait encore faire parler de lui quelques jours plus tard lorsque l'incoulable porte-avion de la Royal Navy, le ''HMS Invincible'' fut sérieusement endommagé. On essaya de camoufler la chose, car il y allait de la fierté nationale anglaise. Le HMS Invincible resta à quai (dans son dock) bien à l'abri des regards pendant plusieurs mois, jusqu'à ce que les réparations furent terminées. L'Angleterre ne pouvait admettre que des missiles ''français'' eussent pu mettre à mal ainsi les meilleures et les plus prestigieuses unités de la Royal Navy.[/b] [/i]

[url=http://home.ca.inter.net/~giskhan/forbidden_thoughts.html]Source[/url]

En anglais cette fois :
[i]The Argentine version said that the last Exocet missile was perfectly locked-on to the target (a big ship) by the Super Etendard pilot, who fired it  and turned back to Río Grande without troubles. The four A-4C Skyhawks of  4th Group followed the trail of the missile and finally saw in the distance  a big column of black smoke, possibly the place where the missile  impacted. Two of them were shot down, but the survivors confirmed that they  saw a carrier, and specifically the HMS Invincible with a thick black smoke  column coming out of it. They attacked it, firing their cannons and dropping their bombs, without confirming any results. After avoiding all the SAMs fired against them, the Skyhawks met their tanker and returned home. 

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmco28wNceg]- LA RECONSTITUTION EN IMAGES DE SYNTHESE -[/url]

The British version of this incident exposed that the Exocet failed its mark, the HMS Invincible, due to it being downed by a 114 mm shell from the frigate  HMS Avenger, or due to it being neutralized by decoys. Additionally, they asserted  that the ship attacked by the A-4C Skyhawks was the HMS Avenger, which was deploying a curtain of white smoke to hide the carrier from any attacker. Many specialists said that the Argentine pilots misidentified the small flight deck of the anti-submarine helicopter with the flight deck of the carrier, and wrongly thought that the smoke of the curtain was cause by the Exocet hit. 

But from the Argentine point of view, the problems with such versions are: 
1)  it is highly unlikely that a 114 mm shell could actually destroy a sea-skimming missile flying at 10 metres high at 1,000 km/h. 
2) the decoys fully failed only five days before, when the MV Atlantic Conveyor was sunk, and why should they work that day? 
3) the smoke seen by the Argentine Skyhawk pilots was not white, but black. 
4) Even in a stress situation like being attacked with AAA and SAM fire, it is hard to mis-identify the big, lateral flight deck of a carrier with the small helicopter flight deck of a frigate. 
5) Besides all that, HMS Invincible did not appear in Port Stanley until late July 1982, and when she returned to England in September 1982, it looked like a big stripe on the port side (the side attacked by the Exocet and the Skyhawks) recently painted. 

All that made me think that the carrier, HMS Invincible was  actually hit that May 30 1982 (not seriously hit, but hit at last) and we have good reason to think that. Of course we could be wrong, but we truly  and sincerely believe that.´ [/i]

[url=http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/Exocet.html]Source[/url][/quote]