"Some Pics about the Falkland/Malvinas War." Topic

Maybe of possible interest or not, some pics of those old days.

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Today… maybe a little useful for painting minis and weapons used by the Argentine side.

Amicalement
Armand

Some useful photos in there.

Chalfant

Found your photo albums from back then, Armand?

Some of them my friend… (smile)
From another life!.

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Armand

Those are great pics, Armand!

Thanks for sharing.

Good to see a WWII-era M3 greasegun still in use.

Glad you enjoyed them my freind. (smile)
Oh! Yes. They won. No doubt about that.

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Armand

Are those all pics of Argentine troops Armand?
71 looks very British apart from the sitting guys helmet. Para helmet maybe? Or someone's got hold of knock off DPM waterproofs and an SLR?

Nice photos. Yes, they're definitely British Paras.

What are those two strange (bullpup?) rifles on the 14th & 15th photos?

What a variety of weapons on the Argentine troops.

My friend, only one pic is of British troops and it's which you mention.
It was an "exchange" in the field of battle.

Indeed, the number and variety of weapons was beyond incredible.
A nightmare to get ammo.

The "Bullpup" you mention were High Standard Model10.

They were used by the marine infantry as combat shotguns for the trenches.
The High Standard Model 10 12 gauge semiautomatic shotgun was manufactured by the company Hamden, CT. it had a bullpup design, yo can fired it from the right shoulder and could integrate a flashlight.
Its effective range was about 45 meters, magazine shotgun 4 + 1 weight was 4.54 kg.
The guys on the pics were dead.

Have you seen the Lee Enfield 303 british.?

I have a little more British Troops pics.

I also have more about artillery.
if you are interested …

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Armand

Thanks Tango, not seen that one before.

There is one other British pic in the first batch – a RM Commando brewing up with an AR15 next to him (RM Mountain Warfare Cadre perhaps?).

I was wondering (by the way that the soldiers seem to be looking at it) if the SMLE was a captured weapon? The locals certainly kept rifles for hunting and the FIDF may still have had a few for basic marksmanship training.

Don't know my friend.
Some officers from Argentina were allowed to bring their own weapons.(and ammo of course).

All the local weapons were confiscated and remain in the Governor house.

Of course, in the case of Argentines in motion, do not would call my attention that some have "disappeared".

Very quickly! (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

Seasons greetings.
Thanks armand.

I thought lee enfield then I thought nahhhhhh, can't be.
Very interesting.

Logistics nightmare.

I havent seen a model 10 in years, pretty rare weapon.

Thanks for sharing Armand, I always appreciate your perspective.

Owen

My pleasure my friends.

There were much more Mausers than Lee Enfields (smile)

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Armand

Very interesting, Armand, please post any pics you have, far too few pics of Argentine forces out there.

Glad you enjoyed them my friend.
I would have the "humor" to do it.
Hope you understand (smile)

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Armand

The sight ringed in Red above is the generic "Starlight" image intensifying sight which could be fitted to the SLR GPMG and the 84mm "Charlie G".

It weighed a ton and came in a big bag, and you tried not to attach it to your rifle often due to the weight.

Didn't work too well in German forests due to lack of moon light getting to ground level.

I've used one on an SLR, but never knew it could be fitted on a CG (which already weighed a ton…).

"Sergeant, this starlight scope is a bit rubbish."

"Have you taken the lens cap off, Sir?"

"Eh? Oh, er, yes, of course… Well look at that, it's suddenly started working…"

You got that ghostly green face if you didnt use it properly…
Didn't the lens cap have a slit in it to allow you to use it in daylight so you can test fire it on ranges and the like?

That's the fella. It let in JUST enough light to make you think that it was working, but rubbish…