"falkland wars bombing runs on royal navy ships?" Topic

got a question
the argentine forces carried out bombing runs by mirages and a4 skyhawks with iron bombs on royal navy ships? with low success rate
why did they not use 70mm rocket launchers or other rocket types?
against armoured ww2 ships might not be effective but against these royal navy ships no armor
hits on superstructure causing fires, damage to comms /electronics, radar etc mission kill , follow on with iron bombs later ?

Possibly because with the Sea Harriers around there might not have been a later?

As was evidenced some of the bombs did go off when they hit and did immense damage, sometimes sinking the ship.

At the ranges the Argentine aircraft were flying they didn't have the payload to spare so had to carry something that would be effective. Bombs seemed to be it.

Also they had cannons, 30mm on the Mirages and 20mm on the Skyhawks. I remember reading a book by Sharkey Ward, a Sea Harrier pilot, where he was getting annoyed when a controller on a ship took a bit longer than he expected to direct him at some 'trade'. In reply the controller eventually came back with directions and an apology: the original controller next to him had just had his head blown off by cannon fire.

Several ships were hit by bombs that dudded out, enough that a British admiral afterwards said something along the lines of "another five or six functional fuzes, and we might not have retaken the Falklands."

The Argentine pilots were also dropping the bombs too low, not giving them enough time to arm. The BBC reported this in one of it's nightly broadcasts, earning the ire of Sandy Woodward.

To be fair, according to Cmdr Sharkey, the man in the ops room on 'Brilliant' had reportedly only lost the top of his head.

An unforgettable image.I believe he survived.