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.