Argentine Dagger – Falklands loadouts

Hi MigMan,

AFAIK Argentine Dagger’s carried only naval strike missions with 2 x classic iron bombs, 2 x Shafir IR AAM’s and a centreline fuel tank.

According to Sandy Woodward’s famous book, “100 Days”, the bombs Daggr’s used were of “parachute delayed, 1000 pound” ones.

He also describes a dogfight between Arg. Dagger’s and 801 Sq Sea Harrier’s took place on May 1.. During the encounter a Dagger fires a Shafir which runs out of fuel and then goes ballistic.

Edit: After checking my archieve deeper, I’ve seen various combinations of loadouts for Dagger’s: 3 x fuel tanks, 3 x drop tanks + 2 x Mk82, so on

I think the Shafir was only carried on the 1st of May, after that the Arg. AF decided that they were useless. On a couple of occations the pilots of Groupo 6 de Caza did air to air with guns, Somebody missed Sharky Ward on 21 May 82 with 30mm fire, and a Sea king was engaged by a Dagger later in the war with the result of a cannon round damaging one of the main rotor blades (sea king managed to land safely). No details as I lent my copy of Falklands the Air War to somebody a while back and haven’t got it back.

Hiya!

Title says its all really: wondering what a load out for an Argentine dagger in the a2g role was during the Falklands war?

seems to be shafir missiles on the outboard pylons, then fuel tanks…..just wondering what would typically go on the centerline position: whether a single bomb or a MER, and the type of ordinance.

Any help would be hugely appreciated! 🙂

Regards

Hi MigMan,

AFAIK Argentine Dagger’s carried only naval strike missions with 2 x classic iron bombs, 2 x Shafir IR AAM’s and a centreline fuel tank.

According to Sandy Woodward’s famous book, “100 Days”, the bombs Daggr’s used were of “parachute delayed, 1000 pound” ones.

He also describes a dogfight between Arg. Dagger’s and 801 Sq Sea Harrier’s took place on May 1.. During the encounter a Dagger fires a Shafir which runs out of fuel and then goes ballistic.

Edit: After checking my archieve deeper, I’ve seen various combinations of loadouts for Dagger’s: 3 x fuel tanks, 3 x drop tanks + 2 x Mk82, so on

Hiya!

Title says its all really: wondering what a load out for an Argentine dagger in the a2g role was during the Falklands war?

seems to be shafir missiles on the outboard pylons, then fuel tanks…..just wondering what would typically go on the centerline position: whether a single bomb or a MER, and the type of ordinance.

Any help would be hugely appreciated! 🙂

Regards

A MER, definitely. If you use a load of Mk81 125kg bombs, you cannot do wrong.