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  Operation Black Buck

Background

Equipment
   Mirage III
   Nimrod
   Oerlikon 35mm
   Roland
   Shrike
   Victor
   Vulcan

Missions
   Black Buck One
   Black Buck Two
   Black Buck Three
   Black Buck Four
   Black Buck Five
   Black Buck Six
   Black Buck Seven

Aftermath

Books
   Vulcan 607


 		    
Operation Black Buck   >   Missions

Black Buck Missions


There were a total of seven Black Buck missions (five of which were successfully carried out, and two of which were aborted) during the the Falklands War:
  • Black Buck One: 30th April, 1982
    Mission: Attack on Port Stanley airfield.
    Outcome: Success.

  • Black Buck Two: 4th May, 1982
    Mission: Attack on Port Stanley airfield.
    Outcome: Success.

  • Black Buck Three: 13th May, 1982
    Mission: Attack on Port Stanley airfield.
    Outcome: Aborted.

  • Black Buck Four: 28th May, 1982
    Mission: Attack on Argentine anti-aircraft radars.
    Outcome: Aborted.

  • Black Buck Five: 31st May, 1982
    Mission: Attack on Argentine anti-aircraft radars.
    Outcome: Success.

  • Black Buck Six: 3rd June, 1982
    Mission: Attack on Argentine anti-aircraft radars.
    Outcome: Success. Vulcan aborts to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  • Black Buck Seven: 12th June, 1982
    Mission: Attack on Port Stanley airfield and facilities
    Outcome: Success.
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World War II
Operation Barbarossa
1941 German Invasion of Russia
Operation Citadel
1943 The Battle of Kursk
Operation Dragoon
1944 Invasion of southern France
Operation Varsity
1945 Crossing the Rhine

Invasions That Never Were
Operation Sealion
1940 German invasion of England
Operation Olympic
1945 US invasion of southern Japan
Operation Coronet
1946 US invasion of northern Japan

Special Forces
Operation Entebbe
1976 Entebbe Airport Rescue
Operation Nimrod
1980 Iranian Embassy Siege

British Cold War Operations
Operation Musketeer
1956 Suez Crisis
Operation Corporate
1982 Falklands War
Operation Black Buck
1982 Vulcan raids on Port Stanley
Operation Granby
1990-91 Persian Gulf

British Post Cold War
Operation Herrick
2002- Afghanistan


 		  
 
 
 
   

 		        
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